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 — After troops fire on a crowd, some 300 die at the barricades; the king of Prussia rides through his capital wearing the revolutionary tricolor — 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 split the borderlands between them; the line holds until 1939. Millions of Ukrainians and Belorussians wake up on the wrong side of somebody’s new border.
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