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March 1

 * 86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters in Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus.
 * 1562 - Over 1,000 Huguenots are massacred by  Catholics in Wassy, France marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
 * 1896 - Battle of Adowa, an Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Abyssinian War.
 * 1918 - German submarine Unterseeboot 19 (U-19) sinks HMS Calgarian off Rathlin Island.