What happened on 20 March?

13 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 Chartered with a state-granted trade monopoly and powers to wage war and make treaties; often described as the first multinational corporation, it dominates much of Europe's Asian
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 Stowe's anti-slavery novel sells about 300,000 copies in the United States in its first year and intensifies debate over slavery.
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 in five coordinated attacks on three 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. 1927 Mahad Satyagraha Ambedkar leads thousands of Dalits to drink from the public Chavdar tank at Mahad, asserting their right to common water; months later he burns the Manusmriti.
12. 1184 Battle of Ichi-no-Tani Minamoto Yoshitsune's surprise downhill cavalry attack breaks the Taira positions; turning point in the Genpei War.
13. 2020 Sunak launches the furlough scheme Weeks into the job, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces that the state will pay 80% of the wages of workers sent home by the Covid lockdown; the scheme eventually supports 11.7 millio