What happened on 24 March?

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

1. 1603 Edo period Tokugawa-shogunate era of internal peace, sakoku isolation, urban culture (kabuki, ukiyo-e, haiku) and stable hierarchy until the Meiji Restoration.
2. 1603 Reign of James I Reign of James I (1603-1625) as King of England, Scotland and Ireland.
3. 1882 Koch identifies the tuberculosis bacterium Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, proving TB is an infectious disease.
4. 1721 Bach's Brandenburg Concertos Set of six instrumental concertos dedicated to the Margrave of Brandenburg.
5. 1972 The Godfather Coppola's adaptation of Mario Puzo's mafia novel; redefined American cinema.
6. 1603 Edo period begins Conventional start of Edo period.
7. 1976 Argentine Dirty War Military junta murders thousands of leftists during the 'National Reorganization Process'.
8. 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes shogun Three years after Sekigahara, the emperor names Ieyasu shogun; he governs from his castle town of Edo, founding a regime that lasts until 1868.
9. 1603 Union of the Crowns James VI of Scotland succeeds Elizabeth I as James I of England; one monarch, two parliaments.
10. 1999 NATO bombs Serbia over Kosovo After Milošević's forces drive hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians from their homes, NATO bombs Serbia for 78 days — the first war fought by the alliance against a sovereign
11. 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill Tanker spills 11 million gallons of crude into Alaska's Prince William Sound.
12. 1919 Big Four meet in Paris Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Orlando draft the peace.
13. 1184 BCE The duel of Hector and Ajax Iliad 7: they fight to nightfall with neither yielding, then exchange gifts — a sword for a war-belt — and part in mutual honour.
14. 1992 Scenario (A Tribe Called Quest) Posse cut that introduced Busta Rhymes to a wide audience.
15. 1972 London imposes direct rule After fifty years of one-party unionist government, London suspends the Stormont parliament and rules Northern Ireland directly from Westminster. Intended as temporary, direct rule
16. 1794 Kościuszko Uprising Tadeusz Kościuszko, veteran of the American Revolution, leads a national rising with scythe-armed peasants; its defeat triggers the final partition of Poland.
17. 1860 Assassination of Ii Naosuke The shogun's chief minister — who signed the foreign treaties and purged his critics — is cut down by samurai in the snow outside Edo Castle's Sakurada Gate. The shogunate never ag
18. 1860 France annexes Nice and Savoy Napoleon III's price for helping Piedmont unite northern Italy: the Treaty of Turin hands France Savoy and Garibaldi's birthplace, Nice.