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26th March 1945: Battle of Iwo Jima ends after US Marines officially secure the island from the Japanese Imperial Army during the War in the Pacific

The US invasion of Iwo Jima, known as ‘Operation Detachment’, led to five weeks of fierce fighting between around 21,000 Japanese troops and 110,000 Americans.Read more

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25th March 1306: Robert the Bruce crowned King of Scots

Robert I, better known as Robert the Bruce, was crowned King of Scots at Scone.Read more

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24th March 1721: Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates the Brandenburg Concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt

The concertos may have never even been performed because Christian Ludwig didn’t have good enough musicians to play the complex pieces.Read more

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23rd March 1806: The Lewis and Clark Expedition begins its return journey

The Lewis and Clark Expedition began its journey home, having crossed the western United States.Read more

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22nd March 1621: Hugo Grotius, the Dutch legal scholar, escapes imprisonment in Loevestein Castle concealed inside a book chest

Grotius was permitted to have books sent to him in prison, and these were transported in a large chest. Over time his guards became less vigilant regarding the chest’s contents which led his wife and…Read more

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21st March 1921: The New Economic Policy introduced to the USSR by Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy at the 10th Communist Party Congress.Read more

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20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established

By the start of the 17th century merchants from the Dutch Republic had begun to undertake voyages to the ‘Spice Islands’ of the Indian Ocean.Read more

27th March 1915: Typhoid Mary placed in permanent quarantine in New York

28th March 1942: Operation Chariot and the St. Nazaire raid by British forces in WW2