What happened on 5 March?

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

1. 1946 Iron Curtain speech Churchill's Fulton, Missouri address declares an Iron Curtain across Europe.
2. 1824 Anglo-Burmese Wars Three wars over six decades dismantle the Konbaung kingdom, ending with the fall of Mandalay and Burma's annexation to British India.
3. 1770 Boston Massacre British soldiers fire on a Boston crowd; five colonists killed; Paul Revere's engraving inflames colonial opinion.
4. 1942 Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) Composed during the German siege; symbol of Soviet resistance.
5. 1931 Gandhi-Irwin Pact Agreement ending the first civil-disobedience campaign; political prisoners freed and Gandhi joins the Round Table Conference.
6. 1894 Lord Rosebery's premiership Rosebery introduces death duties, wins the Derby twice and finds the job miserable.