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23 March

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2 events found for 23 March

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1861

Italian Prime Ministers

Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

The First Premiership of Unified Italy The appointment of Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour , as the inaugural Prime Minister of the newly unified Italy on 23 March 1861 represented the culmination of a transformative era in the peninsula's political history. Having spent years navigating the complex diplomatic and revolutionary currents that sought to consolidate various regional states into a singl...

2020

Contemporary Britain (1979–Present)

First COVID-19 lockdown announced

On 23 March 2020 , the Prime Minister announced the first nationwide lockdown in the United Kingdom in a televised address to the nation. This unprecedented measure was introduced to curb the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had placed immense pressure on the National Health Service . The government mandated that citizens stay at home, with very limited exceptions, marking a significan...