THE DAY IN HISTORY · MARCH 18
March 18 in history
What happened on March 18: 3 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1848, 1871 and 1921, each linked to the map that shows it.
— March Revolution in Berlin
18 Mar 1848 — Troops fired on a crowd in Berlin, and some 300 people died at the barricades. The king of Prussia then rode through his capital wearing the revolutionary tricolor, though only for a while.
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Paris refuses to surrender its cannon; the Commune is proclaimed. Seventy-two days later it dies in a week of blood.
— Peace of Riga
18 Mar 1921 — Poland and Soviet Russia divide the borderlands at Riga, establishing a line that will hold until 1939. For millions of Ukrainians and Belorussians, the settlement places a new border between them and others of their people.
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