Worldpedia:Selected anniversaries/March 13
On March 13:
- 874 - The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in Constantinople.
- 1639 - Harvard College is named for a clergyman.
- 1781 - William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
- 1881 - Alexander II of Russia is killed in a Nihilist bombing.
- 1954 - The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the last battle of the Indochina War, begins .