^B{^#!16!22 March^N! The earliest possible date for Easter. Feast day of St Deogratius, St Basil of Ancyra, St Paul of Narbonne, St Nicholas Owen, and St Benvenuto of Osimo.
^B{1824^B} The British parliament voted to buy 38 pictures at a cost of ú57,000, to establish the national collection which is now housed in the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London, UK. ^B{1888^B} The English Football League was formed. ^B{1895^B} French cinema pioneers Auguste and Louis LumiΦre gave the first demonstration of celluloid film, in Paris. ^B{1942^B} The BBC began broadcasting in morse code to the French Resistance. ^B{1945^B} The Arab League was founded in Cairo. ^B{1946^B} Jordan achieved independence from British rule.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, ^B{1459^B}; Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter, ^B{1599^B}; Karl Malden, US film actor, ^B{1913^B}; Marcel Marceau, French mime, ^B{1923^B}; Stephen Sondheim, US composer and lyricist, ^B{1930^B}; Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer of musicals, ^B{1948^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Jean Lully, French composer, ^B{1687^B}; John Canton, English physicist, ^B{1772^B}; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, novelist, and playwright, ^B{1832^B}; Thomas Hughes, English author of ^I{Tom Brown's Schooldays^I}, ^B{1896^B}; Mike Todd, US film producer, ^B{1958^B}.
