Today is Thursday, March 24, the 85th day of 2016. There are 281 days left in the year.
1545 — German Parliament opens in Worms
1550 — France & England sign Peace of Boulogne
1603 — Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England
1629 — First game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
1645 — Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS Roman Catholic emperor
Ferdinand III
1664 — Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
1721 — Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts
1734 — Netherlands’ William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover
1765 — Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary
housing to British soldiers
1792 — Benjamin West (U.S.) becomes president of Royal Academy of
London
1801 — Romanov becomes emperor of Russia
1828 — Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (first state owned) authorized
1832 — Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio