Shocking history on March 17 St. Patrick's Day In History!

Discover the shocking history behind St. Patrick's Day, celebrated on March 17 every year. This video will take you through the important events that happened on this day in history, making it more than just a day for green beer and parades. Tune in to learn something new!

180 Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius dies leaving his son Commodus aged 18 as sole emperor
432 Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date)
1756 St. Patrick's Day is first celebrated in NYC at the Crown & Thistle Tavern
1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1775 Transylvania Land Company, headed by Richard Henderson, buys most of Kentucky through treaty signed with Cherokee chiefs at Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River (later declared illegal)
March 17, 1776: The Redcoats were forced to evacuate Boston after the Patriots had built significant fortifications with cannons on Dorchester Heights, overlooking Boston. Realizing their fate, over 11,000 British troops and Loyalists sailed to Nova Scotia
1778 Britain declares war on France, due to French alliance with US
1842 Treaty of 1842: Wyandotte (Huron) Indian nation cedes 114,000 acres of land in Ohio and Michigan to US, in exchange for 148,000 acres west of the Mississippi
1870 Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary
1898 John Philip Holland achieves successful test run for the first modern submarine off Staten Island, submerging for 1 hour 40 minutes
1905 Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his Quantum Theory of Light, one of the foundations of modern physics
1917 Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School
1921 Vladimir Lenin proclaims the New Economic Policy to help the country recover from Russian Civil War
1930 Construction begins of the Empire State Building, the world's 1st skyscraper of 100+ stories, on 5th Avenue in New York City
1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
1958 US Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
1960 US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
1966 US submarine locates missing hydrogen bomb on the Mediterranean sea floor
1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
1995 US approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
2008 Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York resigns after scandal involving a high-end pr*st*t*te; David Paterson becomes acting governor

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