TODAY IN HISTORY – MARCH

MARCH 1

986. Died Lothair, King of France
1383. Died Amadeus VI. of Savoy
1456. Born Vladislaus II., King of Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia
1683. Born Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II. of Great Britain

MARCH 2

986. Louis V. becomes King of the Franks
1316. Born Robert II. of Scotland
1459. Born Pope Adrian VI.
1810. Born Pope Leo XIII.
1835. Died Francis II., Holy Roman Emperor
1855. Died Nicholas I., Emperor of Russia
1876. Born Pope Pius XII.

MARCH 3

1239. Died Vladimir III. Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev
1455. Born John II., King of Portugal
1520. Born Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer
1778. Born Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Hanover

MARCH 4

251. Died Pope Lucius I.
561. Died Pope Pelagius I.
852. Croatian Duke Trpimir I. issued a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources
1152. Frederick I. Barbarossa is elected King of Germans
1172. Died Stephen III., King of Hungary
1188. Born Blanche of Castile, French Queen

MARCH 5

1133. Born Henry II., King of England
1324. Born David II., King of Scotland
1326. Born Louis I., King of Hungary, Croatia Sicily and Poland
1723. Born Princess Mary of Great Britain
1953. Died Joseph Stalin, leader of Soviet Union

MARCH 6

1252. Died Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint
1405. Born John II., King of Castile
1475. Born Michelangelo, Italian artist
1817. Born Princess Clementine of Orleans

MARCH 7

161. Died Antonius Pius, Roman Emperor
189. Born Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor
1693. Born Pope Clement XIII.
1724. Died Pope Innocent XIII.
1850. Born Tomas Masaryk, Czech politician

MARCH 8

1144. Died Pope Celestin II.
1286. Born John III., Duke of Brittany
1293. Born Beatrice of Castile, Queen of Portugal
1702. Died William III. of England
1702. Anne Stuart becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland and Ireland
1844. Died Charles XIV. of Sweden

MARCH 9

1213. Born Hugh IV., Duke of Burgundy
1629. Born Alexis I., Tsar of Russia
1661. Died Jules Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman
1888. Died William I., German Emperor

MARCH 10

1391. Died Tvrtko I., first King of Bosnia
1452. Born Ferdinand II. of Aragon
1503. Born Ferdinand I., Holy Roman Emperor and King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia
1845. Born Alexandar III. of Russia

MARCH 11

222. Died Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
928. Trpimir I. succeeds to the Croatian throne
1575. Died Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer
1801. Died Paul I., Russian Tsar

MARCH 12

604. Died Pope Gregory I.
1478. Born Giuliano di Lorenzo de`Medici, ruler of Florance
1507. Died Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman
1622. Ignatius of Loyola is canonized a saint by the Catholic Church
1781. Born Frederica of Baden, Queen of Sweden

MARCH 13

1516. Died Vladislaus II., King of Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia
1615. Born Pope Innocent XII.
1741. Born Joseph II., Holy Roman Emperor
1808. Died Christian VII., King of Denmark
1881. Died Alexander II., Tsar of Russia

MARCH 14

752. Died Pope Zachary
968. Died Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen
1647. Died Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
1807. Born Josephine of Leuchten, Queen of Sweden and Norway
1844. Born Umberto I., King of Italy

MARCH 15

44.BC Died Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic
938. Born Romanos II., Byzantine Emperor
1145. Died Pope Lucius II.
1275. Born Margaret Plantagenet, English princess

MARCH 16

37. Died Tiberius Claudius Nero Ceasar, Roman Emperor
455. Died Valentinian III., Roman Emperor
1021. Died Heribert, Archbishop of Cologne
1457. Died Laszlo Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman
1687. Born Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Queen consort in Prussia

MARCH 17

180. Died Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor
1040. Died Harold, King of England
1473. Born James IV., King of Scotland
1516. Died Giuliano di Lorenzo de`Medici, ruler of Florence

MARCH 18

1227. Died Pope Honorius III.
1314. Died Jacques DeMolay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
1555. Born Francois, Duke of Anjou
1584. Died Ivan IV., Tsar of Russia

MARCH 19

1238. Died Henry I., Duke of Poland
1286. Died Alexander III., King of Scotland
1637. Died Peter Pazmany, Hungarian cardinal and statesman
1721. Died Pope Clement XI.
1749. Born Princess Louisa of Great Britain
1823. Born Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria

MARCH 20

1413. Died Henry IV., King of England
1568. Died Duke Albert of Prussia
1619. Died Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor
1725. Born Abdul Hamid I., Ottoman Sultan
1811. Born Napoleon II. of France

MARCH 21

1076. Died Robert I., Duke of Burgundy
1306. Died Robert II., Duke of Burgundy
1685. Born Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer
1801. Born Maria Theresa of Tuscany, Queen of Sardinia

MARCH 22

1459. Born Maximilian I., Holy Roman Emperor
1609. Born John II. Casimir, King of Poland
1759. Born Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway
1797. Born Wilhelm I. of Germany
1955. Died Ivan Šubašić, last ban of Croatia

MARCH 23

1103. Died Eudes I., Duke of Burgundy
1369. Died King Pedro of Castile
1555. Died Pope Julius III.
1801. Died Tsar Paul of Russia

MARCH 24

1455. Died Pope Nicholas V.
1494. Born Georg Agricola, German scientist
1603. Died Elizabeth I., Queen of England
1603. James VI. of Scotland becomes James I. King of England
1628. Born Sophie Amalie of Brunswick, Queen of Denmark and Norway

MARCH 25

1223. Died Alfonso II. of Portugal
1259. Born Andronikos II., Byzantine Emperor
1297. Born Andronicus III., Byzantine Emperor
1541. Born Francesco I. de`Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
1751. Died Frederick I. of Sweden
1782. Born Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples

MARCH 26

304. Diet Saint Emmanuel, Christiam martyr
1026. Pope John XIX. crowns Conrad II. as Holy Roman Emperor
1130. Died Sigurd I., King of Norway
1212. Died Sancho I., King of Portugal
1827. Died Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer

MARCH 27

972. Born Robert II., King of France
1191. Died Pope Clement III.
1350. Died Alfonso XI., King of Castile
1378. Died Pope Gregory XI.
1625. Died James I. (IV.), King of England, Ireland and Scotland
1625. Charles I. becomes King of England, Ireland and Scotland
1676. Born Francis II. Rakoczy, leader of the Hungarian and Croatian uprising against the Habsburg
1785. Born Louis XVII., King of France

MARCH 28

193. Died Pertinex, Roman Emperor
1285. Died Pope Martin IV.
1515. Born Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Carmelite nun
1566. Died Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat
1609. Born Frederick III., King of Denmark

MARCH 29

1058. Died Pope Stephen IX.
1578. Died Louis I. of Guise, French cardinal
1746. Born Carlo Buonaparte, father of Napoleon
1792. Died Gustav III., King of Sweden
1906. Died Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter

MARCH 30

1432. Born Mehmed II., Ottoman Sultan
1640. Born John Frenchard, English politician
1746. Born Francisco Goya, Spanish painter
1853. Born Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter

MARCH 31

250. Born Constantinus Chlorus, Roman Emperor
1204. Died Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England
1340. Died Ivan I. of Russia, Prince of Moscow
1360. Born Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal
1499. Born Pope Pius IV.
1519. Born Henry II., King of France
1547. Died Francis I. of France
1621. Died Philip III. of Spain
1675. Born Pope Benedict XIV.
1723. Born Frederick V., King of Denmark