What is March 14?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[44 BC]] &ndash; [[Casca]] and [[Cassius]] decide, on the night before [[Julius Caesar]]'s killing, that [[Mark Antony]] should stay alive. * [[1489]] &ndash; [[Queen]] of [[Cyprus]] [[Catherine Cornaro]] sells her kingdom to [[Venice]]. * [[1590]] &ndash; [[Battle of Ivry]]: [[Henry of Navarre]] and a force of [[Huguenot]]s defeat forces of the [[Catholic League]] under the [[Duc de Mayenne]] during the [[French Wars of Religion]]. * [[1647]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: [[Bavaria]], [[Cologne]], [[France]] and [[Sweden]] sign the Truce of [[Ulm]]. * [[1743]] &ndash; The first town meeting was held in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], at Faneuil Hall. * [[1780]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Spain|Spanish]] forces capture Fort Charlotte in [[Mobile, Alabama]], the last British frontier post capable of threatening [[New Orleans]] in then–Spanish [[Louisiana]]. * [[1794]] &ndash; [[Eli Whitney]] is granted a patent for cotton gin. * [[1800]] &ndash; Giorgio Barnaba Luigi Chiaramonti is elected to become [[Pope Pius VII]]. * [[1879]] &ndash; [[Albert Einstein]] is born in [[Ulm]], Southern [[Germany]]. * [[1883]] &ndash; [[Communist]] thinker [[Karl Marx]] dies aged 64. * [[1885]] &ndash; The [[Mikado]], a light [[opera]] by [[W. S. Gilbert]] and [[Arthur Sullivan]], receives its first public performance in [[London]]. * [[1888]] &ndash; A three–day [[snow]]storm in the Eastern [[US]] leaves 400 people dead. * [[1898]] &ndash; Young Boys [[Berne]] Football Club is founded. * [[1899]] &ndash; The ''Belgica'' expedition in [[Antarctica]] can continue again after just over a year of being stuck in pack–[[ice]]. * [[1900]] &ndash; The [[Gold Standard Act]] is ratified, placing [[United States]] [[Currency]] on the [[gold standard]]. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1903]] &ndash; The [[Hay-Herran Treaty]] is ratified by the [[United States Senate]], giving the [[United States]] the right to build the [[Panama Canal]]. It is later rejected by the [[Senate]] o