• 1813-03-20 - Matthias Keller: Ulm, Germany -- Hymm writer (O Farther un High)
  • 1820-03-20 - Alexander J Cuza: Monarch of Moldavia / Wallachia / Romania
  • 1828-03-20 - Henrik Ibsen: Norway -- Playwright (Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler)
  • 1868-03-20 - Obe Postma: Frisian poet / geography / historian (Frisian Clay Farm)
  • 1823-03-20 - John Echols: Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
  • 1825-03-20 - William Nelson Rector Beall: Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
  • 1826-03-20 - Carel Vosmaer: Dutch art historian / poet / editor
 

  • 1619-03-20 - Matthias II: Holy Roman Catholic Emperor (1611-19)
  • 1646-03-20 - Matthew Vossius: Historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35
  • 1703-03-20 - Johann Kunckel / Kunkel: German Alchemist / ambassador to Sweden
  • 1727-03-20 - Issac Newton: English physicist / astronomer, dies in London at 84
  • 1751-03-20 - Frederick Louis: English Prince of Wales / Son of George I
  • 1757-03-20 - Johann Paul Kunzen: Composer, dies at 60
  • 1767-03-20 - Firmin Abauzit: French huguenot / scholar, dies at 87
 

  • 1800-03-20 - French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, and advance to Cairo
  • 1814-03-20 - Prince Willem Frederik becomes Monarch of the Netherlands
  • 1816-03-20 - US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
  • 1833-03-20 - US and Siam sign commercial treaty
  • 1848-03-20 - King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to marry dancer Lola Montez
  • 1852-03-20 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston)
  • 1863-03-20 - Battle of Pensacola Florida - evacuated by Federals
 

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