On March 31, history records 41 notable events, 279 famous births and 109 deaths, spanning the years 307 to 1885.
Events on this day include: After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian. (307); Battle of the Trench: Muhammad undergoes a 14-day siege at Medina (Saudi Arabia) by Meccan forces under Abu Sufyan. (627).
Notable people born on March 31 include Constantius Chlorus (250), K'uk B'alam I (397), Al-Mutawakkil (822).
Notable figures who died on this day include Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei (528), Ahmad ibn Muhammad (963), Pousa, son of Sólyom (1241).
Events on 31 March 41
See all →After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
Battle of the Trench: Muhammad undergoes a 14-day siege at Medina (Saudi Arabia) by Meccan forces under Abu Sufyan.
Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Convention of Kanagawa with the Tokugawa Shogunate, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
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Birthdays on 31 March 279
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Deaths on 31 March 109
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