📅 Today in HistoryMarch 20

Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish noblemen are publicly beheaded in the aftermath of the War against Sigismund (1598-1599).

The Dutch East India Company is established.

Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.

The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.

After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.

German revolutions of 1848-49: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.

The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin, US.

An earthquake destroys Mendoza, Argentina.