22 MARCH
1421: Scottish and French troops under the Earl of Buchan defeated English forces at Bauge in Anjou.
1622: About 35 Virginians were killed in first Indian massacre of European colonists in North America.
1794: United States Congress passed law prohibiting American ships from supplying slaves to other countries.
1859: The first working class Labour Party was founded in Melbourne, Australia.
1888: The Football League was formed at a meeting in Fleet Street, London, with 12 clubs.
1895: Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrated celluloid cinematograph film in Paris.
1926: First road markings came into operation at Hyde Park Corner, London. There were seven accidents on the first day.
1942: Britain began Morse code broadcasts to the French Resistance.
1945: Arab League was founded in Cairo.
1946: Jordan became a kingdom independent of British protection.
1962: Right-wing French terrorists attacked government forces in Algiers.
1963: United States attempted to mediate political dispute that threatened civil war in South Vietnam.
1972: More than 70 people were injured in Belfast in a bomb blast.
1988: Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze retreated from pledge to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
1989: A survey showed that Mickey Mouse and his Disney cartoon friends had ousted Lenin, the Bible and Agatha Christie as the most frequently translated works.
1990: Vaclav Havel said Czechoslovakia sold tons of Semtex explosives to Libya.
1991: UN mission to Iraq found Allied bombing had destroyed power plants, oil refineries and water treatment plants, with “near apocalyptic results”.
1997: American Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and ten months, became the youngest women’s World Figure Skating champion.
2002: In a landmark ruling, seven Scottish judges made it illegal for a man to have sex with a woman without her consent.
2006: ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declared a permanent ceasefire.
2006: Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages were freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity.
2009: Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska, began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.
2016: Three co-ordinated terrorist bombings took place – two at Brussels Airport and one at Maalbeek metro station in the city. Thirty-one people lost their lives.
2017: Lone-wolf terrorist Khalid Masood brought horror to Westminster when he ploughed his car through a crowd of pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before running towards parliament wielding a knife, fatally stabbing PC Keith Palmer before being shot dead by security staff. Three other victims died as a result of the incident.