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data/data/3/27.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"196 BC",
+            "text":" Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1309",
+            "text":" Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1329",
+            "text":" Pope John XXII issues his 'In Agro Dominico' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1513",
+            "text":" Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon and his expedition 1st sight Florida"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1599",
+            "text":" Robert Devereux becomes lt-general of Ireland"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1613",
+            "text":" The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1625",
+            "text":" Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends English throne"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1642",
+            "text":" The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1668",
+            "text":" English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"27",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1708",
+            "text":" Pretender to the English throne James III flees to Dunkirk"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/3/28.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"37",
+            "text":" Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"193",
+            "text":" Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"364",
+            "text":" Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"845",
+            "text":" Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1535",
+            "text":" Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) attacked & destroyed"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1556",
+            "text":" Karel V's son Philip II crowned king of Spain"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1556",
+            "text":" Origin of Fasli Era (India)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1738",
+            "text":" Parliament sends an address to the king requesting that he demand redress from Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1774",
+            "text":" Britain passes Coercive Act against Massachusetts"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1776",
+            "text":" Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1794",
+            "text":" Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"28",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1794",
+            "text":" Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau."
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/3/29.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"502",
+            "text":" King Gundobar of Burgundy delegates royal power"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1461",
+            "text":" Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1549",
+            "text":" The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1632",
+            "text":" Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed, returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1638",
+            "text":" 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1673",
+            "text":" English King Charles II accepts Test Act: Roman Catholics excluded from public functions"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1792",
+            "text":" King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera just 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1795",
+            "text":" Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1798",
+            "text":" Republic of Switzerland forms"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1799",
+            "text":" New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1804",
+            "text":" Thousands of Whites massacred in Haiti"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"29",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1806",
+            "text":" Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway."
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/3/3.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"78",
+            "text":"Origin of Saka Era (India)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"468",
+            "text":"St Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"493",
+            "text":"Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1284",
+            "text":"Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1409",
+            "text":"Austrian civil war ends"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1431",
+            "text":"Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1575",
+            "text":"Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1585",
+            "text":"The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1627",
+            "text":"Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1634",
+            "text":"1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1638",
+            "text":"Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1746",
+            "text":"Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Inverness Castle"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1776",
+            "text":"American commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau, Bahamas"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1791",
+            "text":"1st US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1791",
+            "text":"Congress establishes US Mint"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"3",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1794",
+            "text":"1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/3/30.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"240 BC",
+            "text":" 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"804",
+            "text":" Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Munster"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"988",
+            "text":" Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1282",
+            "text":" The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1296",
+            "text":" Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1422",
+            "text":" Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1456",
+            "text":" Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1474",
+            "text":" Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1533",
+            "text":" Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1603",
+            "text":" Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1778",
+            "text":" Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1796",
+            "text":" Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, discovers the construction of the heptadecagon"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1814",
+            "text":" Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris after defeating Napoleon."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"30",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1814",
+            "text":" Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification."
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/3/31.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1084",
+            "text":"Anti-pope Clemens crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1146",
+            "text":"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."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1492",
+            "text":"Queen Isabella & King Ferdinand of Aragon issue Alhambra Decree expelling Jews from Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1504",
+            "text":"France & Spain sign ceasefire"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1521",
+            "text":"Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1547",
+            "text":"Henry II succeeds Francois I as king of France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1644",
+            "text":"Pope Urbanus VIII & duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1651",
+            "text":"Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1657",
+            "text":"English Parliament makes the Humble Petition to Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell offering him the crown: he declines"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1667",
+            "text":"France & England sign anti-Dutch military accord"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1683",
+            "text":"Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"31",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1717",
+            "text":"A sermon on \"The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ\" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy."
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]