March 12 in History

  1999

Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO

  1971

Military forces Turkish PM to step down

starts   1948

Civil war in Costa Rica

  1948

Rio Pact between American states comes into effect

  1947

Truman Doctrine sets policy of containment against Soviet Communism

ends   1944

British reinvade Arakan

  1942

American troops occupy New Caledonia

  1940

Finland accepts Soviet demands

ends   1933

Japan occupies Jehol

starts   1930

Gandhi marches to Dandi to challenge British

  1925

Sun Yatsen dies.

  1922

F.U.S.S.R. of Transcaucasia formed

starts   1921

Cairo Conference: British frame Middle Eastern policy

  1920

Nikolayevsk Incident

ends   1917

February Revolution overthrows Russian Government

  1913

Australian capital of Canberra officially founded

  1909

British Navy Bill passed due to alarm at growing German naval strength

starts   1881

Rival provisional government in Peru

  1849

Sardinia renounces armistice with Austria

ends   1814

Napoleon extends conscription to rebuild his army

starts   1813

Russians aid Hamburg against French

ends   455

Hunnic rule in the West disintegrates*

ends   321

Constantine persecutes Donatists in Africa*

starts   162

Chatti and Chauci attack Roman Germania*