On March 14
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly March 14 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Mar 11 – Mar 17)
Having defeated Pompey at Pharsalus in 48 BCE and won the civil war, Julius Caesar accumulated unprecedented power, and in early 44 BCE he was made dictator perpetuo, dictator in perpetuity.
Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 11 March 1985 and launched two interlinked reform programmes.
The COVID-19 pandemic was the deadliest global disease outbreak in a century, killing an estimated seven million or more people and upending economies, health systems, and daily life worldwide.
On 13 March 1591 a Moroccan expeditionary force under Judar Pasha, dispatched across the Sahara by the Saadi sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, crushed the army of Askia Ishaq II at Tondibi near Gao.
Between 12 March and 6 April 1930, Mohandas K. Gandhi led a 24-day, roughly 385-kilometre march from his Sabarmati Ashram to the coastal village of Dandi in Gujarat to defy the British salt monopoly and tax.
On 11 March 2018 China's National People's Congress voted overwhelmingly, 2,958 in favour with only two opposed, to amend the constitution and remove the two-term limit on the presidency, clearing the way for Xi Jinping to remain in office…