1st March 1692 (326 Years)
Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are arrested for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. 325 years.
1st March 1938 (80 Years)
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, playwright and politician, died. 80 years.
2nd March 1791 (227 Years)
John Wesley, Anglican cleric and founder of the Methodist Church, dies. 225 years.
2nd March 1797 (221 Years)
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, also known as Horace Walpole, English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician, died. 220 years.
2nd March 1919 (99 Years)
The first Communist International or Third International meets in Moscow. 100 years
2nd March 1991 (27 Years)
Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter, actor, and director, died. 25 years.
3rd March 1816 (202 Years)
William James Blacklock, an English landscape painter, is born. 200 years.
3rd March 1847 (171 Years)
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who patented the first practical telephone. was born. 170 years
3rd March 1914 (104 Years)
Asger Jorn, Danish painter and founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA, was born. 110 years.
3rd March 1996 (22 Years)
Marguerite Duras, a French writer of award-winning books such as L'Amant and film director, dies. 20 years.
4th March 1193 (825 Years)
Saladin, Iraqi-Egyptian sultan who led the Muslim opposition to the Crusaders in the Levant, died. 825 years.
4th March 1493 (525 Years)
Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean. 525 years.
4th March 1890 (128 Years)
The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII. 130 years.
4th March 1913 (105 Years)
Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president of the United States. 110 years.
4th March 1916 (102 Years)
Franz Marc, a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement and a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter, died in France. 100 years.
4th March 1917 (101 Years)
Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to hold national office in the United States: "I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last.". 100 years.
4th March 1917 (101 Years)
Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to hold national office in the United States: "I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last.". 100 years.