What happened on 1 March?

18 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1919 March 1st Movement Mass Korean protest against Japanese colonial rule, brutally suppressed.
2. 1536 Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion Calvin's systematic Reformed theology; foundational text for Presbyterian churches.
3. 1973 Pink Floyd release The Dark Side of the Moon Concept album about pressure, time, and madness; spent decades on the charts.
4. 1692 Tituba's confession lights the fire The first three accused are exactly who a village would accuse: a beggar, a bedridden outcast, and the minister's enslaved Caribbean servant Tituba — who, likely beaten and certain
5. 1562 Massacre of Vassy Catholic forces under the Duke of Guise massacre Huguenots at Vassy, igniting the first War of Religion.
6. 1904 Born: Glenn Miller American big band leader; missing 1944.
7. 1691 Sor Juana's Respuesta a Sor Filotea Mexican nun's spirited defence of women's right to learning, a colonial feminist landmark.
8. 1896 Battle of Adwa Ethiopia decisively defeats Italy, preserving its independence in the colonial era.
9. 1981 1981 Irish hunger strike IRA and INLA prisoners strike for political status in Long Kesh; Bobby Sands dies after 66 days; 10 strikers die total.
10. 1936 Hoover Dam completed Massive concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River; New Deal engineering icon.
11. 415 Murder of Hypatia Christian mob lynches Hypatia in Alexandria.
12. 1932 Manchukuo founded Japan installs Puyi, last Qing emperor, as figurehead ruler of puppet state of Manchukuo; League of Nations condemns; Japan withdraws.
13. 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear test The largest US nuclear test goes badly wrong, irradiating Pacific islanders and a Japanese fishing crew and galvanising anti-nuclear feeling.
14. 293 Tetrarchy established Diocletian formalises rule by four emperors; doubles the army, partitions provinces, and creates the late Roman bureaucracy.
15. 1921 Kronstadt rebellion Soviet sailors rebel against Bolshevik rule; Trotsky leads brutal suppression; pushes Lenin to introduce the New Economic Policy.
16. 1912 Suffragette window-smashing campaign Mass coordinated breaking of West End shop windows by suffragettes; Mrs Pankhurst arrested.
17. 1781 The Articles of Confederation take effect Four years after Congress approved them, Maryland's ratification finally brings America's first constitution into force: a 'firm league of friendship' with no executive, no courts
18. 1820 Hongi Hika visits England Maori chief acquires muskets in Britain that trigger the Musket Wars in New Zealand.