What happened on 10 March?

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

1. 1945 Tokyo firebombing U.S. Operation Meetinghouse raid kills around 100,000 in a single night.
2. 1184 BCE Agamemnon takes Briseis: the quarrel Iliad 1: forced to give Chryseis back, Agamemnon seizes Achilles' prize instead — and the best of the Achaeans withdraws from the war. "Sing, goddess, the wrath..."
3. 2000 Dot-com crash Collapse of internet-stock valuations.
4. 1889 Reign of Menelik II Modernised Ethiopia and destroyed an Italian army at Adwa, keeping the country independent through the Scramble for Africa.
5. 1952 Batista's coup Three months before elections he was set to lose, Fulgencio Batista walks into Camp Columbia and takes Cuba without a shot — cancelling the vote, suspending the constitution, and c
6. 1848 Born: Kate Sheppard Leading New Zealand suffragist; key force behind the 1893 franchise.
7. 1959 Tibetan uprising of 1959 A revolt against Chinese rule in Lhasa is crushed; the Dalai Lama flees into lifelong exile in India.
8. 1975 North Vietnam's final offensive Two years after the Americans left, a probing attack in the Central Highlands turns into a rout: the South's army disintegrates so fast that a campaign Hanoi planned to take two ye
9. 2017 Impeachment of Park Geun-hye Mass candlelight protests lead to South Korea's first president removed by impeachment, a landmark of its democracy.
10. 1915 Battle of Neuve Chapelle The first major British offensive of 1915, with the Indian Corps providing about half the attacking force; initial gains fail to produce a breakthrough amid delayed orders and rein
11. 1629 Personal Rule of Charles I begins Conventional start of Personal Rule of Charles I.
12. 1762 Voltaire and the Calas affair Jean Calas, a Protestant merchant of Toulouse, is broken on the wheel for supposedly murdering a son who wanted to convert to Catholicism — a son who had in fact killed himself. Vo
13. 241 BCE Battle of the Aegates Islands Decisive Roman naval victory off western Sicily ends the First Punic War in Rome's favour.
14. 1812 Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage The first two cantos of a brooding young aristocrat's wanderings through Portugal, Spain and Greece sell out in days: 'I awoke one morning and found myself famous.'
15. 1985 Death of Konstantin Chernenko The third Soviet leader to die in under three years succumbs to emphysema and heart failure; within hours the Politburo turns to its youngest member, Mikhail Gorbachev.