What happened on 29 March?

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

1. 1461 Battle of Towton Largest and bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil; Yorkist victory secures the throne for Edward IV.
2. 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,
3. 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
4. 2017 UK Article 50 triggered May triggers EU exit clause.
5. 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.