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March 11 in history

198 sourced entries recorded on March 11, from 256 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 843Feast of Orthodoxy – Official end of Iconoclasm: Empress Theodora II restores the veneration of icons in the Orthodox churches in the Byzantine Empire.source
  • 1218Treaty of Worcester: King Henry III writes to the Welsh ruler Llywelyn the Great and promises safe-conduct if they meet at Worcester. A peace treaty is signed, which confirms Llywelyn's ownership of Wales. In return, Llywelyn agrees to pay homage to Henry and to return those castles that he has captured during his recent conquests.source
  • 1250Egyptian politician Bahaa el-Din bin Hanna appointed Vizier of Egypt as the last vizier in the Ayyubid Sultanate of Egypt.source
  • 1326The Raid on Brandenburg by King Władysław of Poland is completed with the looting and destruction by Lithuanian troops of the cities of Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder) and the area between them, and the capture of 6,000 German prisoners of war.source
  • 1387Battle of Castagnaro: Padua, led by John Hawkwood, is victorious over Giovanni Ordelaffi of Verona.source
  • 1416Hundred Years' War, Lancastrian phase: The Battle of Valmont takes place in the neighboring towns of Valmont and Harfleur, as Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter and his English Army troops inflict heavy casualties on a larger group of French soldiers commanded by Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac.source
  • 1422On Okinawa Island, now part of Japan, King Shō Hashi of Chūzan begins a war against the two other kingdoms on the island, Hokuzan and Nanzan and begins the unification of Okinawa.source
  • 1431Cardinal Gabriele Condulmer is elected as the successor to Pope Martin V and takes the name of Pope Eugene IV as the 207th leader of the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1437The nova Scorpii AD 1437 is first observed, and is seen by Korean astronomers at Seoul. It remains visible until March 25.source
  • 1443At the age of 16 months old, Charlotte of Savoy, daughter of Louis, Duke of Savoy, is betrothed in a ceremony to Frederick III of the House of Wettin, the 4-year-old son of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony. No marriage takes place, however, and Charlotte will marry the Crown Prince of France in 1451.source
  • 1448Hundred Years' War: England cedes Maine to France.source
  • 1450The First Margrave War comes to an end in Germany as Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg, is defeated by Nuremberg troops at the battle of Pillenreuther Reiher.source
  • 1472The Great Comet of 1472 is observed from the Earth for the last time as it flies away from Earth in the direction of the constellation of Cetus.source
  • 1486In Berlin, Johann von Hohenzollern becomes the new Elector of Brandenburg, the independent Electorate within the Holy Roman Empire, upon the death of his father, the Elector Albrecht III Achilles.source
  • 1500The Parliament of Bohemia adopts a new constitution that limits the power of King Vladislav II and subsequent Bohemian monarchs.source
  • 1504King James IV opens the Scottish Parliament for the first time since 1496.source
  • 1507Italian mercenary leader and former prince Cesare Borgia, later cited by Niccolò Machiavelli in The Prince as an example of "conquest by fortune", completes his conquest of the Spanish city of Viana by driving out the defenders of the castle of the Count of Lerín, but makes the mistake of pursuing the fleeing enemy by himself. He is killed the next day by his captors.source
  • 1511On the island of Puerto Rico, Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León leads an incursion at Yahuecas against the local Taino warriors, commanded by Chief Urayoán.source
  • 1547During the Siege of St Andrews Castle, Patrick Gray, 4th Lord Gray, makes a pledge to Edward VI of England. This contract states that for English assistance in reinstating his rights over Perth, and the return of his brother, who is a hostage ("pledge") in England, Gray would further the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Edward VI, and deliver Broughty Castle and the Spey Tower at Perth to the English army.source
  • 1555The Russo-Swedish War (1554–57): the Russian Empire breaks its 1537 treaty by attacking Sweden, which results in the Russian defeat at the Battle of Kivinebb.source
  • 1557The Burmese conquest of the Shan States continues as the capital of the Mongkawng state, Mong Kawng, falls to the Toungoo dynasty invaders, five days after the March 6 surrender of the town of Mong Yang. The event is later commemorated on the Shwezigon Pagoda Bell.source
  • 1566Mary escapes to Dunbar Castle after convincing Lord Darnley to help her.source
  • 1572Pope Pius V issues the papal bull Supremi omnipotentis Dei, granting an indulgence reducing 50 days of punishment in the afterlife for Roman Catholics who recited the penitential psalms.source
  • 1576The city of Fez, part of the Saadi Sultanate in modern-day Morocco is captured by Ottoman forces led by Abd al-Malik, in an attempt to overthrow the Sultan Muhammed al-Mutawakkil and to make the Sultanate a vassal of the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1596The Battle of Pinos is fought between the English Navy (with 14 warships) and the Spanish Navy (with 13 galleons) off of the coast Cuba's Isla de Pinos, with 325 English Navy men killed or captured, while Spain drives Baskerville's ships to retreat and sustains 80 dead or wounded.source
  • 1597Amiens is taken by Spanish forces.source
  • 1597The French city of Amiens falls to Spanish tropes in a surprise attack by a small force disguised as peasants. This event is in the context of the French Wars of Religion and the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604).source
  • 1597Dublin Gunpowder Disaster: Huge explosion on the Dublin quays as barrels of gunpowder are unloaded; 126 killed, many more injured, and as many as forty houses demolished.source
  • 1605A proclamation declares all people of Ireland to be the direct subjects of the British Crown and not of any local lord or chief.source
  • 1605a proclamation declares all people of Ireland to be the direct subjects of the British Crown and not of any local lord or chief.source
  • 1609The Swedish Army, under the command of General Jacob De la Gardie, begins marching east from Vyborg (at this time, part of the Swedish Empire, modern-day Russia) in order to defend the Russian Empire against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the course of the Polish–Muscovite War.source
  • 1616English Roman Catholic priest, Thomas Atkinson, is hanged, drawn, and quartered at York, at age 70 (he will be beatified by Pope John Paul II on November 22, 1987).source
  • 1616Galileo Galilei meets Pope Paul V in person, to discuss his position as a defender of Copernicus' heliocentrism. The Pope promises Galileo safety from any enemies, and Galileo complies for the next seven years with the injunction against teaching Copernican doctrines.source
  • 1640March 8–13 – Siege of Galle: Dutch troops take the strategic fortress at Galle, Sri Lanka from the Portuguese.source
  • 1649signing of the Peace of Rueilsource
  • 1649The rebel Frondeurs and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.source
  • 1659Prince Dara Shikoh, who had been the heir apparent to the throne of the Mughal Empire in India until the overthrow of his father, Shah Jahan, makes a stand near Ajmer to fight the armies sent by Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, but loses and is forced to flee.source
  • 1665A new legal code is approved for the Dutch and English towns of New York, guaranteeing all Protestants the right to continue their religious observances unhindered.source
  • 1666The tower of St. Peter's Church, Riga, collapses, burying eight people in the rubble.source
  • 1669Mount Etna erupts, destroying the Sicilian town of Nicolosi.source
  • 1671The Danish West India Company, a charter ship company whose operations include human trafficking of African slaves to the Western Hemisphere by its Danish Africa Company subsidiary, is founded.source
  • 1676Peder Griffenfeld is arrested at Copenhagen Castle and brought to Kastellet where he is imprisoned.source
  • 1682Work begins on construction of the Royal Hospital Chelsea for old soldiers in London, England.source
  • 1682work begins on construction of the Royal Hospital Chelsea for old soldiers in London.source
  • 1708Anne, Queen of Great Britain, withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.source
  • 1708Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.source
  • 1708the scholar Dr. Thomas Milles is appointed Church of Ireland Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, in which office he will serve until his death in 1740 (consecrated April 18 in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin).source
  • 1712March 11 (February 30 Swedish Style, February 29 on the Julian calendar) – Sweden temporarily adopts the rare February 30, as a day to adjust the Swedish Calendar back to the Julian calendar.source
  • 1720March 11 (February 29 Old Style) – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden resigns, to let her husband Frederick I take over as king of Sweden. She had desired a joint rule, in a similar manner to William III and Mary II in Britain, but as the Riksdag of the Estates (Sweden's parliament) refuses this, she abdicates in her husband's favour instead.source
  • 1735Abraham Patras becomes the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia) upon the death of Dirck van Cloon.source
  • 1748In battle near Manupur (15 km northwest of Sirhind), Mughal forces under Prince Ahmad Shah Bahadur are victorious against Ahmad Shah Durrani.source
  • 1773March 9–19 – Second voyage of James Cook: Tobias Furneaux in HMS Adventure explores the coast of Van Diemen's Land.source
  • 1780The First League of Armed Neutrality is formed by Russia with Denmark and Sweden to try to prevent the British Royal Navy from searching neutral vessels for contraband (February 28 O.S.).source
  • 1780General Lafayette embarks on French frigate Hermione at Rochefort, arriving in Boston on April 28, carrying the news that he has secured French men and ships to reinforce the American side in the American Revolutionary War.source
  • 1784Treaty of Mangalore signed between a jubilant Tipu Sultan and East India Company bringing a closure to Second Anglo-Mysore War.source
  • 1789The Venetian arsenal on the island of Corfu, containing 72,000 lb of gunpowder and 600 bombshells, explodes during a fire, killing 180 bystanders and knocking down a seawall.source
  • 1794Canonsburg Academy (modern-day Washington & Jefferson College) is chartered by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.source
  • 1798Dundee Infirmary opened.source
  • 1802The Rosetta Stone is presented to the Society of Antiquaries of London, which in turn presents it to the British Museum.source
  • 1810Napoleon I marries Marie-Louise of Austria by proxy in Vienna.source
  • 1822A powerful sudden storm struck the western Norwegian coast killing about 300 men at sea.source
  • 1824The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.source
  • 1827The new state constitution for the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas is ratified, including a phasing-out of slavery in its Article 13, which declares that "From and after the promulgation of the constitution in the capital of each district, no one shall be born a slave in the state, and after six months the introduction of slaves under any pretext shall not be permitted." The prohibition of importing slaves from the United States is lifted when Texas declares independence in 1836, and the Republic of Texas Constitution will provide specifically that Africans and "the descendants of Africans" will not be considered "citizens of the republic".source
  • 1827The predecessor of Qasr El Eyni Hospital and Cairo University School of Medicine is established in Egypt under the direction of Antoine Clot as the first medical school in the region.source
  • 1829German composer Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion since the latter's death in 1750, in Berlin; the success of this performance sparks a revival of interest in Bach.source
  • 1834The United States Survey of the Coast is transferred to the Department of the Navy.source
  • 1836Sultan Mahmud II abolishes the posts of Reis ül-Küttab and Kahya Bey, and establishes the Ottoman ministries of Foreign Affairs and of the Interior in their place.source
  • 1843March 11–14 – Eta Carinae flares, to become the second-brightest star.source
  • 1845The New Zealand Wars open with the Flagstaff War. Chiefs Kawiti and Hōne Heke lead 700 Maoris in the burning of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka (modern-day Russell, New Zealand).source
  • 1845Flagstaff War: Chiefs Kawiti and Hōne Heke lead 700 Māori people in the burning of the British colonial settlement of Kororāreka, later known as Russell, New Zealand.source
  • 1846The brig H.M.S. Osprey (Captain Patten) is driven ashore and wrecked at Herekino Harbour, having mistaken it for the entrance to the Hokianga Harbour, but no lives are lost.source
  • 1848Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.source
  • 1849Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The Hungarian army of Transylvania, under general Josef Bem, defeats the Russian-Austrian army at Second Battle of Nagyszeben, capturing the city which is the headquarters of Austrian general Anton Puchner. Most of Transylvania is liberated from the Austrian rule. The Austrian and the Russian troops flee to Wallachia.source
  • 1851Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is first performed at La Fenice in Venice.source
  • 1854A Royal Navy fleet sails from Britain, under Vice Admiral Sir Charles Napier.source
  • 1854Royal Navy fleet sails from Britain under Vice Admiral Sir Charles Napier.source
  • 1857March 8 – 12 – Spirit Lake Massacre, near Okoboji and Spirit lakes in the northwestern territory of Iowa near the Minnesota border.source
  • 1861American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.source
  • 1861the Portpatrick Railway opens to Stranraer Town railway station, providing a connection from Dumfries.source
  • 1864Great Sheffield Flood: A reservoir near Sheffield, England, bursts; 250 die.source
  • 1864Great Sheffield Flood: the Dale Dike Dam bursts devastating Sheffield.source
  • 1872Work begins on the Seven Sisters Colliery in South Wales, located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.source
  • 1879The Ryukyu Domain is incorporated into the Okinawa Prefecture of Japan and the last ruler, Shō Tai, exiled to Tokyo.source
  • 1886Anandi Gopal Joshi becomes the first Indian-born woman to graduate from medical school.source
  • 1888The "Great Blizzard of 1888" begins along the East Coast of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.source
  • 1889baby farmer Jessie King is the last woman to be hanged in Edinburgh, for infanticide.source
  • 1889The North Carolina Legislature issues a charter for the creation of Elon College.source
  • 1891March 9–12 – The Great Blizzard of 1891 in the south and west of England leads to extensive snow drifts and powerful storms off the south coast, with 14 ships sunk, and approximately 220 deaths attributed to the weather conditions.source
  • 1892The first basketball game is played in public, between students and faculty at the Springfield, Massachusetts, YMCA before 200 spectators. The final score is 5–1 in favor of the students, with the only goal for the faculty being scored by Amos Alonzo Stagg.source
  • 1899Waldemar Jungner files the patent application for the first alkaline battery and receives a Swedish patent.source
  • 1899The world's first wireless distress signal is sent by wireless telegraphy (in Morse code) to the East Goodwin light vessel when German cargo-carrying barquentine Elbe runs aground in fog in the English Channel.source
  • 1911Start of the Cuocolo Trial in Viterbo. The trial was ostensibly to prosecute those charged with the murder of the Camorra boss Gennaro Cuocolo and his wife in 1906, but was transformed into a trial against the Camorra, intending to use it to strike the final blow to the criminal organisation. The verdict was delivered on 8 July 1912.source
  • 1914A Welsh Home Rule Bill is introduced by Edward T. John, MP for East Denbighshire; it fails.source
  • 1915WWI: British armed merchantman HMS Bayano is sunk in the North Channel off the coast of Scotland by Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-27. Around 200 crew are lost, a number of bodies being washed up on the Isle of Man, with only 26 saved.source
  • 1917Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza is elected president of Mexico; the United States gives de jure recognition of his government.source
  • 1918Communist government moves from Petrograd to Moscowsource
  • 1931The Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR programme, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.source
  • 1935The Bank of Canada issues a $500 banknote with Sir John A. Macdonald's portrait and a $1,000 note with Sir Wilfrid Laurier's portraitsource
  • 1937Nicolae Bălan's report to the Romanian Orthodox Church leads to Freemasonry in Romania dissolving itself.source
  • 1939March 10–21 — 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)source
  • 1940Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck and six others leave Monterey, California, United States, for the Gulf of California, on a marine invertebrate collecting expedition.source
  • 1942WWII: Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines – U.S. General Douglas MacArthur, his family and key members of his staff are evacuated by PT boat, under cover of evening darkness, from Corregidor in the Philippines. Command of U.S. forces in the Philippines passes to Major General Jonathan M. Wainwright.source
  • 1942General MacArthur leaves for Australia to take command of the South Western Pacific Area.source
  • 1944Øyvind Grøn, physicistsource
  • 1944Resistance leader Joop Westerweel is arrested while returning to the Netherlands, having escorted a group of Jewish children to safety in Spain.source
  • 1945The Empire of Japan establishes the Empire of Vietnam, a puppet state which will last only until August 23, with Bảo Đại as its ruler.source
  • 1950The radio station Kol Zion Lagolah (The Voice of Zion to the Diaspora) begins broadcasting in English, French and Yiddish.source
  • 19581958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident: A U.S. B-47 bomber accidentally drops an atom bomb on Mars Bluff, South Carolina. Without a fissile warhead, its conventional explosives destroy a house and injure six people.source
  • 1959The Eurovision Song Contest 1959, staged in Cannes, is won for the Netherlands by "'n Beetje" sung by Teddy Scholten (music by Dick Schallies, lyrics by Willy van Hemert).source
  • 1959The Malayan Federation Royal Police Memorial Monument at Police Training Academy (now PULAPOL) Kuala Lumpur was officialized.source
  • 1960Bombay High Court overturns Jury trial verdict on Nanavati case and declares him guilty.source
  • 1962March 8–12 – In Geneva, France and the Algerian FLN begin negotiations.source
  • 19621961-63 Balkans Cup: Albania defeats Romania 3-2 at Dinamo, Bucharestsource
  • 1963The National Language Act 1963 was gazetted.source
  • 1966Transition to the New Order in Indonesia: President Sukarno gives all executive powers to General Suharto by signing the Supersemar order.source
  • 1967The first phase of the Cambodian Civil War begins between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge.source
  • 1967The opening of Land Reform Museum in Songshan District, Taipei City.source
  • 1968March 10–11 – Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, the largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during the (at this time) secret war later known as the Laotian Civil War.source
  • 1968U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson mandates that all computers purchased by the federal government support the ASCII character encoding.source
  • 1971THX 1138, George Lucas' first full-length film, premieres in theaters.source
  • 1976March 9–11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, in Letcher County, Kentucky.source
  • 1978Coastal Road massacre: Palestinian terrorists kill 34 Israelis.source
  • 1979Keren Peles, Israeli singer.source
  • 19791979 North Korean local electionssource
  • 1981Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet is sworn in as President of Chile for another 8-year term.source
  • 1985Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.source
  • 1985Mohamed Al-Fayed buys the London-based department store company Harrods.source
  • 1988The Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque in Shah Alam, Selangor was fully constructed. This is the largest mosque in Malaysia.source
  • 1990Augusto Pinochet hands over power to the elected president Patricio Aylwin, marking the beginning of the Chilean transition to democracy after 17 years of the military dictatorship of Chile.source
  • 1990March 11–13 – The March 1990 Central United States tornado outbreak produces 64 tornadoes across six US states, including four violent F4/F5 tornadoes. The outbreak leaves 2 dead, 89 injured, and causes over $500 million in damages.source
  • 1993Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.source
  • 19981998 Danish general election: Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is re-elected.source
  • 2002All Gulf states back up with Saudi Arabia's peace plan for Israel.source
  • 2002The Tribute in Light is installed at the World Trade Center site in New York City.source
  • 2003Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, announces that UN-sponsored talks on the reunification of Cyprus have failed. Cyprus remains a candidate for EU membership and the Greek Cypriot government intends to sign on behalf of the whole island. Analysts suggested that Turkish opposition to unification may hurt Turkey's chances of joining the EU.source
  • 2003President of the Council of State Marcel Sauber resigns to take up the vacancy left in the Chamber of Deputies by the death of Willy Bourg on 21 February.source
  • 2003The first test of the GBU-43/B MOAB bomb takes place.source
  • 2003The International Criminal Court begins operations.source
  • 2004Al-Qaeda bombings on Cercanías trains in Madrid, Spain, kill at least 192 people.source
  • 2007Georgia accuses three Russian helicopters of firing on the Kodori Gorge, then the only part of the break-away autonomous republic of Abkhazia still under Georgian control.source
  • 2007March 8–11 – Edoardo Molinari from Italy wins 2007 Kenya Open golf tournament held in Karen Golf and Country Club, Nairobi. Jacob Okello was the best placed Kenyan golfer. Kenya Open is part of the Challenge Tour.source
  • 2011A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 19,759 people and leaving another 2,553 missing. Tsunami warnings are issued in 50 countries and territories. Emergencies are declared at four nuclear power plants affected by the quake. As a result of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, multiple plants at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant were damaged, several workers injured, and contaminants were released into the environment.source
  • 2018March 9-18: Belarus takes part in the 2018 Winter Paralympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.source
  • 2018March 9–18 – The 2018 Winter Paralympics are held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.source
  • 2020Moshoeshoe Day, Lesothosource
  • 2021Eswatini receives a shipment of 20,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative.source
  • 2022Gabriel Boric is sworn in as President of Chile. He becomes the youngest head of state in the nation's history and the first to be born during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.source
  • 2022March 4 – March 13 – The 2022 Winter Paralympics are held in Beijing, China, making it the first city to host both Summer Paralympics and Winter Paralympics.source
  • 2023Cyclone Freddy hits Mozambique, causing floods, infrastructure damage, and at least five deaths.source
  • 2023March 8–21 – The 2023 World Baseball Classic is held in, and won by, Japan.source
  • 2024Haitian acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry announces his pending resignation from both offices amid an ongoing crisis marked by gang warfare in the country.source
  • 2025Balochistan Liberation Army militants blow up railway tracks and hijack the Jaffar Express train bound from Quetta to Peshawar, taking 450 people hostages including both security personnel and civilians.source
  • 2025March 8–17 – The 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games are held in Turin, Italy.source
  • 2025The former President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, is arrested in the Philippines after being served an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.source

Births

  • 1162Theodoric I, margrave of Meissen (died 1221)source
  • 1278Mary of Woodstock, English princess, nun (died 1332)source
  • 1461Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 3rd Duke of the Infantado, Spanish noble (died 1531)source
  • 1530Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (died 1573)source
  • 1544Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (died 1595)source
  • 1634Nicholas Gassaway, Colonel, Maryland Provincial Forces (died 1691)source
  • 1689Roger Handasyd, British Army officer (died 1763)source
  • 1775Nils Landmark, jurist, farmer and politician (died 1859)source
  • 1916Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1995)source
  • 1931Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publishersource
  • 1936Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 2016)source
  • 1952Douglas Adams, English author (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) (died 2001)source
  • 1957Qasem Soleimani, Iranian general (died 2020)source

Deaths

  • 256Cao Lin, Chinese prince and son of Cao Caosource
  • 452Tai Wu Di, emperor of Northern Wei (born 408)source
  • 638Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalemsource
  • 857Eulogius, Spanish priest and martyrsource
  • 1198Marie of France, French princess and countess (born 1145)source
  • 1220Isabel de Clare, English noblewoman (born 1172)source
  • 1296John le Romeyn, Archbishop of Yorksource
  • 1353Theognostus, metropolitan of Kiev and Moscowsource
  • 1486Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1414)source
  • 1514Donato Bramante, Italian architect (born 1444)source
  • 1575Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (born 1520)source
  • 1578Nicolò da Ponte is elected as the new Doge of the Republic of Venice after 44 ballots, following the March 3 death of Sebastiano Venier.source
  • 1602Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer (born c. 1550)source
  • 1646Stanisław Koniecpolski, Polish soldier and statesman (born c. 1592)source
  • 1665Clemente Tabone, Maltese landowner and militia member (born c. 1575)source
  • 1689Sambhaji, High Protector of the Maratha Empire (born 1657)source
  • 1722John Toland, Irish philosopher (born 1670)source
  • 1759John Forbes, British general (born 1707)source
  • 1812Philip James de Loutherbourg, English artist (born 1740)source
  • 1820Benjamin West, Anglo-American painter of historical scenes (born 1738)source
  • 1854Willard Richards, American religious leader (born 1804)source
  • 1870Moshoeshoe I, King of Lesotho. (born c. 1786)source
  • 1874Charles Sumner, American senator, civil rights activist (born 1811)source
  • 1898William Rosecrans, California congressman, Register of the U.S. Treasury (born 1819)source
  • 1907The Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Dimitar Petkov, is assassinated by an anarchist in Sofia.source
  • 1949Henri Giraud, French general (born 1879)source
  • 1955Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1881)source
  • 1957Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (born 1888)source
  • 1978Claude François, French entertainer born 1939, dies by electrocution in his home in Paris.source
  • 2006Slobodan Milošević, 64, Yugoslav and Serbian politician, former president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia standing trial for war crimes, heart attack.source
  • 2015Two journalists are murdered in Mazatenango.source