What happened on 20 March?

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

1. 2003 Iraq War begins US-UK-led coalition invades Iraq, citing alleged WMDs that are never found.
2. 1602 Dutch East India Company chartered VOC founded with extraordinary state-backed monopoly powers; first multinational joint-stock corporation; dominates Asia trade for 200 years.
3. 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin Anti-slavery novel that helped trigger the American Civil War.
4. 1815 Napoleon's Hundred Days Napoleon escapes Elba, returns to Paris, rebuilds his army, and is defeated at Waterloo within four months; final exile to Saint Helena.
5. 1852 Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin The anti-slavery novel that sold 300,000 copies in a year and hardened Northern opinion in the decade before the Civil War.
6. 44 BCE Antony's funeral oration inflames Rome Five days after the Ides, Mark Antony displays Caesar's torn and bloodied toga to the funeral crowd and reads the will — gardens to the public, money to every citizen. The mob burn
7. 1799 Siege of Acre (1799) Ottoman and British forces repel Napoleon at Acre, halting his Syrian campaign and his eastern ambitions.
8. 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack Aum Shinrikyo cult releases sarin nerve gas on five subway lines during rush hour; 14 killed, ~1,000 injured.
9. 1914 The Curragh Mutiny Told they may be ordered to move against Ulster's unionists, sixty British cavalry officers at the Curragh camp offer their resignations instead — and the government backs down. Th
10. 1828 Born: Henrik Ibsen Norwegian dramatist of A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler; father of modern realist theatre.
11. 1184 Battle of Ichi-no-Tani Minamoto Yoshitsune's surprise downhill cavalry attack breaks the Taira positions; turning point in the Genpei War.