What happened on 6 March?

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

1. 1869 Mendeleev's Periodic Table Russian chemist publishes the first widely-accepted periodic table.
2. 1957 Decolonisation of Africa begins Conventional start of Decolonisation of Africa.
3. 1853 Verdi's La Traviata premieres Opera based on Dumas's Lady of the Camellias; central to the Italian repertoire.
4. 1927 Born: Gabriel García Márquez Colombian novelist of magical realism; Nobel laureate.
5. 1857 Dred Scott decision Supreme Court rules African-Americans cannot be US citizens.
6. 1957 Ghanaian independence Kwame Nkrumah leads Ghana to become the first sub-Saharan colony to gain independence.
7. 1984 UK miners' strike Year-long industrial dispute that broke the National Union of Mineworkers.
8. 1429 Joan convinces the Dauphin at Chinon Having talked her way to an escort and crossed 350 miles of enemy territory in eleven days, the seventeen-year-old picks the disguised Dauphin out of his crowded court — and after
9. 1508 Born: Humayun Second Mughal emperor; lost Mughal territory to the Suri Empire and lived in exile in Persia before reconquering northern India in 1555. Father of Akbar.
10. 1629 Edict of Restitution Emperor Ferdinand II orders restoration of Catholic Church property seized since 1552; provokes Protestant alarm and Swedish intervention.
11. 1933 The bank holiday stops the panic Two days into his presidency, with the banking system hours from oblivion, Roosevelt closes every bank in America — then explains it on the radio in the first fireside chat, in lan
12. 1957 Nkrumah's leadership of Ghana Led the first sub-Saharan colony to independence and preached pan-Africanism until the army removed him.
13. 1927 Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian Lecture (1927) and later essay collection; one of the most-cited 20th-century statements of philosophical scepticism about religion.