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March 22

3 sourced moments from March 22 in history: The Jamestown Massacre took place (1622); The 1765 Stamp Act taxed dice ten times more than cards; and The Lumiere brothers held the first projected film screening (1895).

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3 things happened on March 22

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1895 Culture & Arts · Film & TV

The Lumiere brothers held the first projected film screening

On a March evening in Paris, a 46-second clip of factory workers leaving for the day quietly invented the experience of going to the movies.

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1765 History · Modern

The 1765 Stamp Act taxed dice ten times more than cards

Britain's 1765 tax on colonial paper charged 10 shillings for a pair of dice and threatened forgers with death. It lasted under a year.

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1622 History · Modern

The Jamestown Massacre took place

One coordinated dawn attack wiped out a quarter of England's first permanent colony in a single morning.

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