1535.- The Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, the capital of Peru.

1654.- The leader of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Hetman Bogdan Khmelnytsky, recognized the supreme authority of the Tsar of Moscow after the victory over the Polish army, which united Ukraine with Russia. The Cossack uprising broke out in 1648 and was soon joined by the peasants, the townspeople and the Orthodox clergy, who were outraged by the violence of the Poles who forcibly Catholicized the population in Ukraine.

1689.- Charles Louis Montesquieu, one of France's greatest philosophical and political writers, was born in Bordeaux. With Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot, he was the forerunner of the French Revolution. In his major work, The Spirit of the Law, he presented the theory of the division of legislative, executive, and judicial power, which is still the foundation of Western parliamentary democracy. He died in Paris on February 10, 1755.

1778.- English navigator James Cook discovered Hawaii.

1830. - Grigor Stavrev Prlichev was born in Ohrid, a prominent Macedonian writer from the time of Romanticism and an important representative of the Macedonian literature from the XIX century. This ingenious writer according to his linguistic affiliation is a three-volume author: Greek, Bulgarian и Macedonian and unites in itself their specific characteristics, the epoch in which he lives and works, as well classicism and romanticism as stylistic features. Prlichev was a student of Dimitrija Miladinov. For some time he worked as a tailor, and later became a teacher in Tirana, Albania. In 1849 he enrolled as a medical student at the University of Athens. During 1850-59 he returned to Macedonia and taught in several places: Dolna Belica, Bitola, Prilep и Ohrid, to provide conditions for continuing studies. In 1859 he returned to Athens as a second-year medical student. During this period he wrote the poem "The serdar“. In 1860 he won the prize of the great Athenian competition for the best poem in the Greek language, a coin and a laurel wreath. The same year the work was published. The poetic work "The serdarIs considered the absolute peak of all the investment that this creator has made in the art of the word. For her, the author in Athens gets the epithet from the critics Second Homer. Other more notable of his works are The autobiography and the word-essay "Beware of yourself", the poem "Skenderbeg" and a small series of poems for children who are considered the founders of Macedonian literature.

1862.- Konstantin Miladinov, a Macedonian poet, collector of Macedonian folk songs and intellectual works, died in the police hospital in Constantinople. After finishing primary education in Struga and high school in Ioannina, in 1847 he became a teacher in the village of Trnovo, Bitola region. On October 14, 1849 he enrolled at the Faculty of Philosophy (Philology Group) in Athens. After graduating, he stayed in the monastery "Zograf" on Mount Athos. After returning to Struga, he became a teacher in the Bitola village of Magarevo, and then in 1857 he enrolled and studied Slavic philology in Moscow, where he was a member of the Slavic circle and collaborated in his newspaper "Brotherly Labor" and the newspaper "Danube Swan". . On June 24, 1861, the Collection of Folk Songs and Intellectual Works of the brothers Dimitar and Konstantin Miladinovi was published in Zagreb. He was born in Struga, in 1830.

1871.- King Wilhelm I of Prussia was proclaimed the first emperor of the United German Empire at Versailles, near Paris. Under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, Prussia united the various German states.

1882.- English writer Allen Alexander Milne, author of many popular children's novels, was born. Works: the novels "When We Were Very Young", "Winnie the Pooh", "The House at Pooh's Corner", "Now We Are Six".

1886.- French-born Russian sculptor and painter Antoine Pevzner, one of the most prominent figures in the Russian constructivist movement, was born. He studied in Kiev and Petrograd, and emigrated to France in 1923. He created in the manner of abstract constructivism, but later experimented with dynamic spiral constructions and rhythmically developed objects.

1892.- The American film actor was born, the cute fat Oliver Norwell Hardy, who together with Stan Laurel still make the audience around the world laugh today. Movies: "We from Oxford", "Two Good Friends", "Big Thing", "Our Woman", "In the Wild West".

1896.- Paul Verlaine, a French poet who had a significant influence on the symbolic school, died in Paris. His songs are direct, full of lyricism and music. He was born in Meta, on March 30, 1844.

1904.- English-born American film actor Archibald Alexander Leach, better known as Carrie Grant, was born. He excelled as a top comedian in Howard Hawks comedies, but also as an interpreter in Alfred Hitchcock's films. Movies: "Terrible Truth", "Only Angels Have Wings", "Philadelphia Story", "Suspect", "Day and Night", "Monkey Things", "Catch the Thief!", "North-Northwest" and others.

1913.- American theater and film actor David Daniel Kaminski, better known as Danny Kay, a top comedian who also worked for UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, was born. Movies: "The Miracle of Man", "The Boy from Brooklyn", "The Song Was Born", "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", "The Auditor" and others.  

1916.- Volce Naumceski, Macedonian writer, was born in Prilep. He began to engage in literary work in 1936, and at the same time with a revolutionary activity. He later went to Sofia, where he became a member of the Macedonian Literary Circle. In 1939 he published the first collection of poems in Macedonian "Go Spring", printed in Bitola. Published a number of poetry collections for children. He died in Skopje on March 20, 1980.

1919.- French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau opened the Versailles Peace Conference following the victory of Entente forces over the Central Powers in World War I. At the gathering of 27 representatives of the winning countries, only the United Kingdom, the United States and Italy had the right to decide. With the Peace Treaty signed on June 28, 1919, Germany assumed responsibility for the war, pledged to pay military damages, and was barred from arming itself. The new states of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes were created.

1923.- Ljutvi Rusi, a prose writer of Albanian nationality in Macedonia, was born in Debar. His most significant works are "Partisan Stories", "Tempering", "Ibe Palikuka", "Two Friends", "Suspicion", "Liman Kaba" and "The Deaf-Mute". He translated the work "Embroidery" by Blaжеe Koneski from Macedonian into Albanian. He died in Skopje, on February 28, 1981.

1987.- Renato Gutuzo, the greatest contemporary Italian painter, died in Rome. He was born in Bageria, near Palermo, in 1912.

1992.- The self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus recognized the independence of the Republic of Macedonia.

1993.- The Government of the Republic of Macedonia has decided to establish diplomatic relations between the Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Belarus.

1995.- Strumica became a member of the Federation of Carnival Cities.

1995.- The Republic of Moldova recognized the Republic of Macedonia.

1996.- Greece's ruling Socialist Party (PASOK) has elected Costas Simitis as Greece's prime minister. PASOK founder Andreas Papandreou has resigned due to ill health.

1997.- Austrian Chancellor Franz Vranicki has resigned after 11 years in office.

2000.- Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has resigned as honorary president of the Christian Democrats over a financial scandal involving illegal fundraising while leading the German government.

2004.- A car bomb has exploded at an Iraqi police recruiting center at Kisak, killing at least 25 people.

2016.-  Glen Frey, American guitarist, co-founder and member of one of the most famous rock bands in the United States - Eagles - has died in New York at the age of 67.