What Happened on March 3? | This Day That Year

Rome, Western Roman EmpireClassical

473

Glycerius Named Emperor

A puppet placed on a crumbling throne

Gundobad, the powerful Burgundian general and nephew of the late kingmaker Ricimer, placed Glycerius on the throne of the Western Roman Empire. The new emperor was little more than a figurehead in a realm that was rapidly disintegrating. Glycerius's brief and largely powerless reign illustrated the terminal decline of Western Rome, where emperors were made and unmade by barbarian generals who held the real power.

473 AD

Edna Best Was Born — A star of British stage and Hollywood screen — Edna_Best.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Hove, EnglandEarly 20th Century

1900

Edna Best Was Born

A star of British stage and Hollywood screen

Edna Best was born in Hove, England, a future actress who would achieve fame on both the London stage and the Hollywood screen. Her performances in plays and films during the 1920s through the 1940s earned her critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. Best's talent and elegance made her a beloved figure in the transatlantic entertainment world during its golden age of theater and cinema.

1900 AD

Early 20th Century

1913

Woman Suffrage Procession

Thousands of women marched in Washington, D.

Thousands of women marched in Washington, D.C., "in a spirit of protest" against the exclusion of women from American society.

1913 AD