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data/data/3/10.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"241 BC",
+            "text":"First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"418",
+            "text":"Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1535",
+            "text":"Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers Galapagos Islands"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1578",
+            "text":"Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir £20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1624",
+            "text":"England declares war on Spain"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1629",
+            "text":"King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he recalled it 11 years later"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1661",
+            "text":"French King Louis XIV ends office of premier"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1697",
+            "text":"Tsar Peter the Great begins a tour of Western Europe"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1734",
+            "text":"Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1735",
+            "text":"An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1762",
+            "text":"French Huguenot Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1783",
+            "text":"USS Alliance under Captain Barry fights and wins last naval battle of US Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"10",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1789",
+            "text":"Franklin College founded"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/3/11.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"11",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1425 BC",
+            "text":"Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty)."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"11",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"417",
+            "text":"Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"11",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"537",
+            "text":"Goths lay siege to Rome"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"11",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"843",
+            "text":"Icon veneration officially re-instated in Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"11",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"928",
+            "text":"Trpimir II succeeds to the Croatian throne."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"11",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1387",
+            "text":"The Battle of Castagnaro begins."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"11",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1502",
+            "text":"Ismail I crowned Shah of Persia (rules till 1524), founder of the Safavid dynasty"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"11",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1513",
+            "text":"Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"11",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1563",
+            "text":"League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"11",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1567",
+            "text":"Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"11",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1597",
+            "text":"Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"11",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1649",
+            "text":"The Frondeurs (French rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"11",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1665",
+            "text":"NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"11",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1669",
+            "text":"Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/3/12.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"12",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"538",
+            "text":"Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"12",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1054",
+            "text":"Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"12",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1088",
+            "text":"Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, succeeding Victor III"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"12",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1144",
+            "text":"Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"12",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1350",
+            "text":"Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"12",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1365",
+            "text":"University of Vienna founded"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"12",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1455",
+            "text":"First record of Johann Gutenberg's Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year before"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"12",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1496",
+            "text":"Jews are expelled from Syria"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"12",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1572",
+            "text":"Luis Vaz de Camoes publishes \"Os Lusíados\" in Portugal"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"12",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1594",
+            "text":"Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"12",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1597",
+            "text":"England routes troops to Amiens"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"12",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1609",
+            "text":"Bermuda becomes an English colony"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"12",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1619",
+            "text":"Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/3/13.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"13",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"483",
+            "text":"St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"13",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"607",
+            "text":"12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"13",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"624",
+            "text":"Battle of Badr, Muhammad's Muslim forces win significant victory over Meccan forces"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"13",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1138",
+            "text":"German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"13",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1519",
+            "text":"Hernán Cortés lands in Mexico"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"13",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1560",
+            "text":"Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"13",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1564",
+            "text":"Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"13",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1567",
+            "text":"Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"13",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1569",
+            "text":"Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"13",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1591",
+            "text":"Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"13",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1634",
+            "text":"Academie Francaise opens"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"13",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1639",
+            "text":"Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"13",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1656",
+            "text":"Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"13",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1677",
+            "text":"Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/3/14.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1489",
+            "text":"The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1559",
+            "text":"Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Netherlands"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1590",
+            "text":"Battle of Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League during French Wars of Religion"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1644",
+            "text":"England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1647",
+            "text":"Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1653",
+            "text":"Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1689",
+            "text":"Scotland dismisses William III & Mary Stuart as king & queen"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1743",
+            "text":"1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1757",
+            "text":"On board HMS Monarch (his own flagship), British Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty \"Pour encourager les autres\"."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1794",
+            "text":"Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing cotton industry in the southern US states"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1800",
+            "text":"Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1812",
+            "text":"Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1821",
+            "text":"African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"14",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1826",
+            "text":"General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/3/15.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"44 BC",
+            "text":"Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"221",
+            "text":"Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"351",
+            "text":"Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"493",
+            "text":"Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"933",
+            "text":"Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1311",
+            "text":"Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1360",
+            "text":"French attack English south coast, raiding Winchelsea"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1382",
+            "text":"Conservative \"Popolo Grasso\" regain power in Florence Italy"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1391",
+            "text":"Jew-hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1493",
+            "text":"Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his 1st New World voyage"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"15",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1545",
+            "text":"First meeting of the Council of Trent."
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]