ON 1 MARCH IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on March 1, 2019
138: For the first time in history, a seismoscope invented by Zhang Heng, detects an earthquake
http://seismoscope.allshookup.org/
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Zhang_Heng
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/2369.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG97kQCp5zM
1260: Hulagu Khan, grandson of Ghensis, conquers Damascus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulagu_Khan
1320: Death of Buyantu Khagan, Emperor of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, born on April 9 1285
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurbarwada_Buyantu_Khan,_Emperor_Renzong_of_Yuan
http://www.picturesfromhistory.com/gallery/CPA0004501-0005000/image/248/
1510: Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier, explorer and 1st Viceroy of India is killed at Table Bay (now Saldanha Bay, South Africa) born in 1450
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Almeida
http://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=resources&s=char-dir&f=almeida
1683: Birth of Tsangyang Gyatso, the 6th dalai lama, who died on November 15, 1706
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsangyang_Gyatso,_6th_Dalai_Lama
http://www.friendsoftibet.org/main/songs.html
1776: The Treaty of Purandar (or Treaty of Purandhar) is signed by the peshwa of the Maratha people and the supreme government of the British East India Company in Calcutta. Based on the terms of the accord, the British are able to secure Salsette
http://pages.rediff.com/treaty-of-purandar–1776-/854934#!info
1796: After the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was a financial wreck, and after vain attempts by the provincial States of Holland and Zeeland to reorganize it, is nationalized by the new Batavian Republic
http://geography.about.com/od/economic-geography/a/The-Dutch-East-India-Company.htm
1885: During the Sino-French War, battle of Zhenhai Bay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Zhenhai
1886: The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Chinese_School
1889: Birth of Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher who died on December 26, 1960
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Watsuji_Tetsuro
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/watsuji-tetsuro/
1892: Birth of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer, who died at 35 in July 1927
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Ryunosuke_Akutagawa.aspx
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/ryunosuke-akutagawa/
1895: Birth of Deng Yanda, founder of the Chinese Peasants and workers Party, executed as traitor by the KMT on November 29 1931
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Yanda
1895: Birth of Ogura Yuki, Japanese painter who died on July 23, 2000
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2002/09/18/arts/yuki-ogura-the-other-side-of-modern/#.VPHege83NMs
http://www.gallery-sakura.com/search/ogura_yuki.html
https://www.google.fr/search?q=Ogura+Yuki&biw=1301&bih=641&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=L9_xVMTSB4nkUpDyg6AK&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&dpr=1.05
1906: Birth of Pham Van Dong, Vietnamese politician, who died on April 29, 2000
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Pham_Van_Dong.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rjobv89IpY
1914: The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union
1919: March 1st Movement begins in Korea (Samil Undong) proclaims independence from Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1st_Movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Declaration_of_Independence
http://wn.com/Samil_Movement#/videos
1932: Pu Yi is installed by the Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo under the reign title of Datong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyi
1932: 12 pro-independence revolutionaries captured in and around Chittagong in Bengal province of British India are sentenced to deportation for life, two to three-year prison terms with the remaining 32 being acquitted.
1934: Pu Yi is crowned as Emperor Kangde of Manchukuo
http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=67
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/1734.html
1941: Birth of Joo Hyun, South Korean actor
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Joo_Hyun
1942: Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java
http://pacificwrecks.com/airfields/indonesia/kalidjati/
1942: The Battle of Java Sea started on 27 February ends with a new Japanese victory. US suffers a major naval defeat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Java_Sea
http://combinedfleet.com/battles/Java_Campaign
1947: Chinese Premier T.V. Soong resigns
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/22412278
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/2634.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._V._Soong
1949: Indonesian separatists seize Yogyakarta from the Dutch
1950: Chiang Kai-shek resumes the presidency of National China on Formosa (Taiwan)
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/1624.html
1956: Prince Sihanouk becomes again Prime Minister of Cambodia for three weeks
1958: Birth of Japanese conductor Chosei Komatsu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chosei_Komatsu
http://vimeo.com/4077377
1962: Pakistan, under Ayub Khan, has a new constitution that set up a presidential system of government
http://storyofpakistan.com/the-constitution-of-1962/
http://fr.slideshare.net/ranausmansattar/the-constitution-of-1962
1971: Pakistani President Yahya Khan postpones indefinitely the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan
1972: The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani province
1979: The United States and the People’s Republic of China formally establish embassies in Beijing and Washington, DC
1983: China suggest a five-point peace plan for Cambodia
1994: Hindi film-maker, Manmohan Desai passed away at 57
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/1-march-1994-famous-hindi-film-maker-manmohan-desai-passed-away-at-57
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-manmohan-desai-1426903.html
2001: India is the second country, after China, to have a 1-billion population
2003: Suspected September 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is captured by CIA and Pakistani agents near Islamabad
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2811855.stm
2008: After an agreement with Laos, Thailand begins the deportation of around 8,000 Hmong asylum seekers
2011: Cambodia’s exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy losts a final appeal against a two-year jail term imposed in absentia – a sentence his lawyer denounced as politically motivated
http://khmerization.blogspot.fr/2011/03/cambodias-top-court-rejects-appeal-by.html
2011: Eleven men have been sentenced to death for setting fire to a passenger train in the Indian town of Godhra in 2002, killing dozens of Hindu pilgrims
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12605659
2011: Chinese police, citing newly enacted restrictions on journalists, have moved to forcefully prevent foreign reporters from covering public protests that have been largely nonexistent, establishing “no reporting” zones in Shanghai and Beijing and, in one case, beating a videographer and injuring two other reporters
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/world/asia/02china.html?ref=asia
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/China-Unapologetic-About-Harassment-of-Foreign-Reporters-117143003.html
2012: Supporters of former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed clash with police and stop the country’s new leader from opening parliament, three weeks after he says he was forced to resign in a coup
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/03/201231104025321749.html
2012: Death of Ninth Khalkha Jetsun Dhampa (Lord of refuge of Khalkha) lived 57 years in exile because of Soviet domination in Mongolia and Chinese rule in Tibet. Despite difficulties, he fought to revive his faith among Mongols
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Mongolia’s-‘Dalai-Lama’-dies,-had-fought-Stalin-and-Mao-24127.html
2015: India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party is sworn into government in the country’s only Muslim-majority state for the first time after an historic power-sharing deal with a bitter regional rival
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/jammu-now-closer-to-kashmir/article6948801.ece?homepage=true
2016: Renowned Burmese writer Maung Tha Ya, author of over 60 books, pass away at age 86 in the US
http://www.irrawaddy.com/burma/burmese-gypsy-writer-maung-tha-ya-dies-at-86.html
2017 : Death of legendary Malaysian actor Jins Shamsuddin, who starred in Malay films such as Pancha Delima and Sarjan Hassan. He was 81
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/03/01/legendary-actor-jins-shamsudin-dies/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jins_Shamsuddin
Holidays and observances
Korea: Independence Movement Day