Day In History
This Day in History
Today: March 22, 2026
106
Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
235
Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.[1]
871
Æthelred of Wessex is defeated by a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.[2]
1185
Battle of Yashima: the Japanese forces of the Taira clan are defeated by the Minamoto clan.[3]
1312
Vox in excelso: Pope Clement V dissolves the Order of the Knights Templar.[4]
1508
Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.[5]
1621
The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.[6]
1622
Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
1631
The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.[7]
1638
Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.[8]
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