35761 | March 29 | Event | 1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629. |
35762 | March 29 | Event | 1638 – Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden. |
35763 | March 29 | Event | 1683 – Yaoya Oshichi, 15-year-old Japanese girl, burnt at the stake for an act of arson committed due to unrequited love. |
35764 | March 29 | Event | 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf. |
35765 | March 29 | Event | 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. |
35766 | March 29 | Event | 1809 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden. |
35767 | March 29 | Event | 1831 – Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey. |
35768 | March 29 | Event | 1847 – Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege. |
35769 | March 29 | Event | 1849 – The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab. |
35770 | March 29 | Event | 1857 – Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company's rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. |
35771 | March 29 | Event | 1865 – American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins. |
35772 | March 29 | Event | 1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1. |
35773 | March 29 | Event | 1871 – The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria. |
35774 | March 29 | Event | 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus. |
35775 | March 29 | Event | 1882 – The Knights of Columbus are established. |
35776 | March 29 | Event | 1886 – Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta. |
35777 | March 29 | Event | 1911 – The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm. |
35778 | March 29 | Event | 1930 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler. |
35779 | March 29 | Event | 1936 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters. |
35780 | March 29 | Event | 1941 – The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time. |
35781 | March 29 | Event | 1941 – World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan. |
35782 | March 29 | Event | 1942 – The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city. |
35783 | March 29 | Event | 1945 – World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England. |
35784 | March 29 | Event | 1945 – World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army. |
35785 | March 29 | Event | 1946 – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded. |
35786 | March 29 | Event | 1947 – Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar. |
35787 | March 29 | Event | 1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. |
35788 | March 29 | Event | 1957 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety. |
35789 | March 29 | Event | 1961 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections. |
35790 | March 29 | Event | 1962 – Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11½ day constitutional crisis. |