What happened on 18 March?

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

1. 37 Reign of Caligula Notorious unstable third Roman Emperor.
2. 1871 Paris Commune Radical socialist Parisian government holds the city for two months before brutal suppression.
3. 1893 Born: Wilfred Owen British war poet, killed November 1918.
4. 1919 Rowlatt Act Wartime emergency powers extended into peacetime — sparks mass protests.
5. 1848 Barricades in Berlin — the March Days Street fighting kills some 300 Berliners before Frederick William IV pulls his troops out of the city, salutes the revolution's dead with bared head, and promises Prussia a constit
6. 1890 Dismissal of Bismarck Young Wilhelm II forces Bismarck to resign; ends the Iron Chancellor's 28 years of dominance and changes German policy.
7. 1962 Évian Accords Negotiated end to the Algerian War.
8. 1848 Five Days of Milan In five days of street fighting, Milan's citizens drive Field Marshal Radetzky's 12,000-strong Austrian garrison out of the city. Piedmont declares war on Austria days later — the
9. 1834 Tolpuddle Martyrs Six Dorset farm labourers transported to Australia for forming a union; cause célèbre of trade unionism.
10. 1965 First spacewalk Alexei Leonov floats free of Voskhod 2 for twelve minutes — then barely squeezes back through the airlock in a ballooned suit, landing days later among wolves in the Urals.
11. 1915 Naval attack on the Dardanelles An Allied fleet fails to force the Dardanelles straits, leading to the land campaign at Gallipoli.
12. 1869 Born: Neville Chamberlain Reforming health minister and chancellor whose premiership is remembered for one word: appeasement. Flew three times to meet Hitler, proclaimed 'peace for our time' at Munich, took
13. 235 End of the Severan dynasty Murder of Severus Alexander on the Rhine plunges the empire into 50 years of crisis.
14. 1945 Maurice Richard scores 50 in 50 The Rocket becomes the first to score 50 goals in a 50-game season — a benchmark that stood for 36 years, from hockey's first francophone superstar.