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What happened on 22 March?

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

  1. 1963 The Beatles release Please Please Me Debut album launches Beatlemania; popular music never sounds the same again.
  2. 1765 Stamp Act crisis British Parliament imposes stamp tax on the colonies; "no taxation without representation"; widespread riots; tax repealed in 1766.
  3. 1933 Dachau concentration camp opens The Nazis open their first concentration camp near Munich, the prototype for the entire camp system.
  4. 1739 Nadir Shah sacks Delhi Persian invader takes the Peacock Throne and Koh-i-Noor diamond; Mughal power broken.
  5. 1519 La Malinche guides Cortes Nahua interpreter and intermediary whose role shapes the conquest narrative.
  6. 1793 Permanent Settlement of Bengal Cornwallis fixes land revenue in perpetuity, creating the zamindar landlord class.
  7. 1518 Charles V backs Magellan's westward gamble Snubbed by his own king, the Portuguese veteran Ferdinand Magellan offers Spain the prize Columbus never delivered: the Spice Islands, reached westward through a strait he swears e
  8. 1185 Battle of Yashima Yoshitsune's daring assault destroys the last Taira land base on Shikoku; sets up the final naval battle at Dan-no-ura.
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