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March 25,196 BC Ptolemy V ascended to the throne of Egypt. 47 BC Ptolemy XII, King of Egypt and brother of Cleopatra, drowned in the Nile, probably with an assist by Julius Caesar, who thereby made Cleopatra queen. 1 Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word. 31 First Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus. 421 City of Venice founded. 708 Constantine I began his reign as Catholic Pope. 1199 Richard I was wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which led to his death on April 6. 1306 Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scotland.

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March 24, 1208 King John of England opposed Innocent III on his nomination for archbishop of Canterbury. 1550 France, England and Scotland signed the Peace of Boulogne, ending the War of the Rough Wooing (conflict between England and Scotland with the Scots receiving French military aid). 1603 Elizabeth I died and James VI of Scotland became James I of England, unifying the English and Scottish crowns.

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March 23, 752 Stephen's two-day pontificate began. Elected to succeed Zachary, Stephen II died before he died before his consecration; earlier writers do not appear to have included him in the list of the popes; but, in accordance with the long standing practice of the Roman Church, he is now generally counted among them. This divergent practice has introduced confusion into the way of counting the Popes Stephen. 1066: 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 1657 France and England formed an alliance against Spain. 1743 Handel's Messiah was performed for the first time in London.

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March 22, 238 Gordian I and his son Gordian II were proclaimed Roman Emperors. 1312Order of the Knights Templar was suppressed. 1349 Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacred Jews who were blamed for the Black Death. 1429 Joan of Arc dictated a warning to the English. 1457 Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book. 1556 Cardinal Reginald Pole became archbishop of Canterbury.

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March 21, 47 BC, Julius Caesar defeated Ptolemy XII, Cleopatra's brother and rival, at Alexandria, Egypt, thus restoring Cleopatra to the throne. 630 Byzantine emperor Heraclius restored the True Cross to Jerusalem. 717 Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid. 1152 Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor retained control of Aquitaine and shortly thereafter wed Henry Plantagenet, who would become the next king of England. 1413 Henry V crowned King of England. 1474 Saint Angela Merici, founder of the Ursulines, was born. 1556 The first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, was burned at the stake for heresy.

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March 20, 43 BC, Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), the most versatile of the Roman poets, was born. 141 Sixth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 235 Maximinus Thrax was proclaimed emperor. He was the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne. 687 Saint Cuthbert, a shepherd and hermit who achieved fame as a holy man, healer, and bishop, died. 851 Ebbo of Reims, Bishop in the Carolingian empire and evangelist to Denmark, died. 1345 Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction was thought to have caused the plague epidemic. 1413 King Henry IV of England died and was succeed by his son Henry V. 1549 Thomas Seymour was executed. Seymour had married Henry VIII's widow Katherine Parr and pursued the young princess Elizabeth without success. When his piratical activities were discovered he was arrested, tried, and executed.

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March 19, 235 Maximinus Thrax was proclaimed Emperor of Rome. 1179 The Third Lateran Council of the Catholic Church called a crusade against Cathar heretics in Toulouse. 1307 The Douglas Larder raid - Sir James Douglas was a Scot who returned home from school in Paris to find his estates had been claimed and occupied by an Englishman, Robert de Clifford. Joining with Robert the Bruce for a time, he returned in an attempt to take back his land, attacking his own castle three times. After his final assault, known as the Douglas Larder, he razed the castle to the ground. 1330 King Edward II of England's younger brother, Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Kent died.