Events on March 22 41
Year 871
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.
Year 1784
The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
Year 1829
In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
Year 1871
In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
Year 1906
The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris
Year 1916
The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
Year 1920
Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
Year 1933
Cullen-Harrison Act: President Franklin Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines.
Year 1942
World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
Year 1943
World War II: the entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
Year 1960
Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
Year 1972
The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
Year 1972
In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
Year 1975
A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
Year 1978
Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Year 1982
NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
Year 1992
USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
Year 1992
Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.
Year 1993
The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
Year 1995
Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
Year 1997
Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and 9 months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
Year 2004
Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles.
Year 2006
Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.
Year 2013
At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
Year 2016
Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.
Year 2017
A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.