March
- Vasco da Gama discovers Mozambique, 1498.
- Francis II, last Holy Roman Emperor, died 1835.
First woman member admitted to British House of Lords, 1922. - Emancipation Edict liberates Russian serfs, 1861.
- Sultan Saladin dies, 1193.
U.S. Constitution takes effect, 1789. - Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech, 1946.
Death of Joseph Stalin, 1953. - Michelangelo Buonarroti born, 1475.
- Thomas Aquinas dies, 1274.
Adolf Hitler invades the Rhineland, 1936. - Russian Revolution began at St. Petersburg, 1917.
- Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine marry, 1796.
Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac, 1862. - First intelligible sentences transmitted by Bell on the telephone, 1876.
- First daily paper (Courant) appears in England, 1703.
German troops enters Austria, 1938. - Kemal Ataturk born, 1880.
Mohandas Gandhi begins civil disobedience campaign, 1930. - Emperor Joseph II born, 1741.
Sir William Herschel discovers planet Uranus, 1781. - Albert Einstein born, 1879.
- Julius Caesar assassinated, 44 B.C.
- Long Parliament dissolved, 1660.
- Parliament repeals Stamp Act, 1766.
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy, 1861. - Otto von Bismarck resigns as German Chancellorship, 1890.
- David Livingston born, 1813.
First production of Gounod's Faust, 1859. - Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid born, 43 B.C.
Dutch East India Company established, 1602.
Henrik Ibsen born, 1828. - Thomas Cranmer burned at the stake, 1556.
J.S. Bach born, 1685. - Johann Wolfgang Goethe died, 1832.
- John Bartram, botanist, born, 1699.
- Accession of King James I.
Union of England and Scotland, 1603.
Kosciusko leads national uprising in Poland, 1794. - Bela Bartok born, 1881.
Arturo Toscanini born, 1867. - Ludwig van Beethoven dies, 1827.
A.E. Houseman born, 1859.
Robert Frost born, 1874. - Treaty of Amiens, 1802.
von Rontgen born, 1845. - Spanish Civil War ended, 1939.
- Canada becomes a Dominion, 1867.
Sir William Walton born, 1902. - Sicilian Vespers, 1282.
U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia, 1867. - St. Bernard preaches Second Crusade, 1146.
Rene Descartes born, 1596.
Franz Joseph Haydn born, 1732.
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