What happened on 29 March?

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

1. 33 Palm Sunday: the entry into Jerusalem Matthew 21: riding on a donkey through strewn cloaks and palm branches — "Hosanna to the Son of David!"
2. 1461 Battle of Towton Probably the largest and bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil; Yorkist victory secures the throne for Edward IV.
3. 1912 Scott's last diary entry Pinned in the tent by a nine-day blizzard, eleven miles from the supplies at One Ton Depot, Scott writes his last words as Wilson and Bowers lie dying beside him: 'It seems a pity,
4. 2017 UK Article 50 triggered May triggers EU exit clause.
5. 1857 Mangal Pandey fires the first shot At Barrackpore, a sepoy of the 34th Native Infantry fires on his British officers, inflamed — like the whole Bengal Army — by rifle cartridges rumoured to be greased with cow and p
6. 1974 Terracotta Army discovered Farmers digging a well near Xi'an uncover the buried clay army of China's first emperor, one of archaeology's greatest finds.
7. 1879 Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin Tchaikovsky's opera from Pushkin's verse novel, composed as he made a disastrous marriage he fled within weeks.
8. 1876 Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark An 'agony in eight fits': a crew led by the Bellman sails with a blank map to hunt a creature that may turn out to be a Boojum.
9. 1871 Royal Albert Hall opens Queen Victoria, too moved to speak, opens the great domed hall in South Kensington built in her husband's memory — centrepiece of the 'Albertopolis' he planned with the Great Exhib