Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 12
On March 12:
- 515 BC - Construction is completed on the Temple in Jerusalem.
- 1572 - Publication of epic The Lusiad of Luis de Camões.
- 1894 - For the first time Coca-Cola is sold in bottles.
- 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile protest march to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
- 1938 - Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day.