Events on March 29 52
Year 502
King Gundobad issues a new legal code (Lex Burgundionum) at Lyon that makes Gallo-Romans and Burgundians subject to the same laws.
Year 845
Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
Year 1430
The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.
Year 1461
Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton: Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
Year 1500
Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.
Year 1632
Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
Year 1792
King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
Year 1806
Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
Year 1809
King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
Year 1847
Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
Year 1857
Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company's rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
Year 1865
American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
Year 1867
Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
Year 1936
In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal remilitarization and reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
Year 1941
The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
Year 1941
World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
Year 1942
The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
Year 1946
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded.
Year 1957
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
Year 1961
The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
Year 1962
Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11½ day constitutional crisis.
Year 1971
My Lai Massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Year 1973
Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
Year 1982
The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
Year 1984
The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to Indianapolis.
Year 1990
The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
Year 1993
Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
Year 1999
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
Year 1999
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
Year 2002
In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
Year 2004
Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
Year 2010
Two suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.
Year 2013
At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.