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The following events took place on March 12. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 44 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 538

  Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
• 1550

  Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile.
• 1622

  Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
• 1689

  The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
• 1811

  Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
• 1864

  American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as a US Navy fleet of 13 Ironclads and 7 Gunboats and other support ships enter the Red River.
• 1868

  Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
• 1868

  Basutoland, toaday called Lesotho is annexed by the United Kingdom.
• 1881

  Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world’s first black international football player and captain.
• 1885

  Tonkin Campaign: France captures the citadel of Bắc Ninh.
• 1894

  Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.
• 1910

  Greek cruiser Georgios Averof is launched at Livorno.
• 1912

  The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
• 1913

  Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remains temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)
• 1918

  Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
• 1920

  The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
• 1921

  İstiklâl Marşı is adopted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
• 1922

  Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan form The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
• 1928

  In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
• 1930

  Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt
• 1933

  Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his “fireside chats”.
• 1934

  Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
• 1938

  Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
• 1940

  Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
• 1942

  Pacific War: The Battle of Java ends with an Allied surrender to the Japanese Empire.
• 1947

  The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
• 1950

  The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world’s deadliest air disaster at the time.
• 1961

  First winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger.
• 1967

  Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become Acting President of Indonesia.
• 1968

  Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.

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