March 29: Boganda Day in the Central African Republic; Martyrs' Day in Madagascar (1947)
Terracotta Army
- 1430 – Byzantine–Ottoman wars: After an eight-year siege, the Ottoman Empire captured the Venetian city of Thessalonica.
- 1800 – William Matthews was ordained as the first British America-born Catholic priest.
- 1871 – The Royal Albert Hall in Albertopolis, London, was officially opened by Queen Victoria.
- 1974 – A group of farmers in Shaanxi province, China, discovered a vast collection of terracotta statues (pictured) depicting the armies of the first Emperor of China Qin Shi Huang.
- 2010 – Islamist Chechen separatists set off two bombs on the Moscow Metro, killing 40 and injuring 102 others.
John Tyler (b. 1790) · Charles-Valentin Alkan (d. 1888) · Helene Deutsch (d. 1982)
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