Events on 22 March 41
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Æthelred of Wessex is defeated by a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.
Year 1508
Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
Year 1621
The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
Year 1622
Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
Year 1630
The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
Year 1638
Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
Year 1713
The Tuscarora War comes to an end with the fall of Fort Neoheroka, effectively opening up the interior of North Carolina to European colonization.
Year 1739
Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
Year 1765
The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
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