March 12 in history
Events on March 12
Notable events that happened on March 12 in past years.
- 2020
The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wikipedia article: United States - 2014
A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
Wikipedia article: 2014 East Harlem gas explosion - 2006
In Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi is raped and murdered by five American soldiers of the 502nd Infantry Regiment, who also murder both of her parents and her sister.
Wikipedia article: Mahmoudiyah, Iraq - 2003
Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
Wikipedia article: Zoran Đinđić - 1993
Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.
Wikipedia article: 1993 Bombay bombings - 1989
Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web.
Wikipedia article: Tim Berners-Lee - 1967
Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.
Wikipedia article: Suharto - 1942
The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Empire of Japan in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
Wikipedia article: Battle of Java (1942) - 1940
The most destructive train accident in Finnish history kills 39 and injures 69 people in Turenki, Janakkala.
Wikipedia article: Turenki rail accident - 1930
Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile (320 km) march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
Wikipedia article: Mahatma Gandhi - 1918
Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.
Wikipedia article: Moscow - 1862
Paddle steamer Brother Jonathan docks in Fort Victoria (now Victoria, British Columbia), carrying smallpox-infected passengers from San Francisco. The ensuing epidemic killed an estimated two-thirds of First Nations in the province of British Columbia.
Wikipedia article: Brother Jonathan (steamer) - 1689
James II of England lands at Kinsale, starting the Williamite War in Ireland.
Wikipedia article: James II of England - 1391
Konrad von Wallenrode is elected the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (date is O.S.).
- 538
Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
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