Events for March 20

March 20, 1814

Dr. John Goodsir born in Anstruther, Fife

John Goodsir FRS FRSE FRCSE (20 March 1814 – 6 March 1867) was a Scottish anatomist and a pioneer in the formulation of cell theory.

March 20, 1141

Malcolm IV, King of Scotland, was born

Malcolm IV (or Máel Coluim mac Eanric) (c. 1141 – December 9, 1165), King of Scots, was the eldest son of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (d. 1152) and Ada de Warenne, a daughter of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey and Elizabeth de Vermandois. He succeeded his paternal grandfather David I of Scotland in 1153. Pious, frail, and chaste, he was known as Malcolm the Maiden, and died unmarried and childless in 1165.

March 20, 1761

Robert Simms, a founder of the United Irishmen and proprietor of the Northern Star, is born

Robert Simms (20 March 1761 – 1843) was an Irish radical, and a founding member in Belfast of the Society of United Irishmen.

March 20, 1914

60 cavalry officers at the Curragh resign their commissions an incident known as the Curragh Mutiny

The Curragh incident of 20 March 1914, sometimes known as the Curragh mutiny, occurred in the Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland. The Curragh Camp was then the main base for the British Army in Ireland, which at the time still formed part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Ireland was scheduled to receive a measure of devolved government, which included Ulster, later in the year. The incident is important in 20th-century Irish history, and is notable for being one of the few occasions since the English Civil War in which elements of the British military openly intervened in politics. It is widely thought of as a mutiny, though no orders actually given were disobeyed.