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March 16 in history

231 sourced entries recorded on March 16, from 37 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 675Emperor Tenmu decrees the end of serfdom. He also orders an end to granting lands to Princes of the Blood, to Princes and to Ministers and Temples.source
  • 934Meng Zhixiang, a military governor (jiedushi), declares himself emperor (formally called "Gaozu") and establishes Later Shu as a new Chinese state, independent of Later Tang. He dies after a short-lived five-month reign and is succeeded by his son Meng Chang.source
  • 1177The Spanish Award is signed and witnessed by, among others, Robert III de Stuteville and John of Greenfordsource
  • 1190A massacre and mass-suicide of the Jews in York, results in the deaths of 150–500 Jews in Clifford's Tower.source
  • 1244Siege of Montségur: French forces capture and destroy Château de Montségur in Languedoc, after a 9-month siege. Some 200 'heretics' (perfecti and credentes) are burnt in a bonfire, near the foot of the castle. This marks the final defeat of the Cathars (or Albigensians); the followers become scattered fugitives, meeting in forests and mountain wilds.source
  • 1287Synod of Würzburg: A church council is held by Cardinal Giovanni Boccamazza and King Rudolf I at Würzburg. During the assembly, Giovanni announces the taxation of the clergy to finance the expedition of Rudolf (known as the Italienzug) to Rome and the imperial coronation.source
  • 1322"Despenser War": Battle of Boroughbridge – English royal forces (some 4,000 men) led by Andrew Harclay defeat the Contrariant barons at Boroughbridge in Yorkshire. During the battle, Harclay holds the bridge against fierce rebel attacks and Thomas of Lancaster is forced to surrender.source
  • 1337Edward the Black Prince establishes the Duchy of Cornwall, becoming the first English Duke.source
  • 1341John Morice is appointed deputy justiciar.source
  • 1355Red Turban Rebellions: Han Lin'er, a claimed descendant of Emperor Huizong of Song, is proclaimed emperor of the restored Song dynasty in Bozhou.source
  • 1358King Haakon VI of Norway designates the city of Skien as a city with trading privileges, making it the sixth town with city status in Norway.source
  • 136812th waning of Tabaung, 729 ME. In what is now Myanmar, the coronation of Swa Saw Ke as King of Ava is held. Swa Saw Ke had taken power on six months earlier on September 5, but waited for the court astrologers to determine the ideal date for the coronation ceremony.source
  • 1383In France, Évrart de Trémaugon, an adviser to King Charles V, interrupts the King's dinner at the Louvre Palace and accuses Guillaume de Chamborant, the King's equerry, of the murder of Evrart's brother Yvon.Famiglietti 2015, vol.1, p.279. Charges are eventually dropped against Chamborant 16 months later and Evrart is ordered on July 30, 1484, to pay 500 Livres tournois, equivalent to more than 404 kilograms of fine silver, to Chamborant.source
  • 1392A fleet from Sicily, commanded by King Martin of Aragon, arrives at Capo San Marco on the island of Sardinia and makes, an unsuccessful attempt to capture the Sardinian leader Brancaleone Doria.source
  • 1416The Treason Act 1415 takes effect in England, making coin clipping a treasonable offense.source
  • 1434Muscovite War of Succession: Yury of Zvenigorod defeats his nephew, Vasily II, Grand Prince of Moscow, in a battle at Rostov, about 125 mi from Moscow.source
  • 1447A major fire destroys the centre of Valencia.source
  • 1448The English garrison at Le Mans in France surrenders to the French Army.source
  • 1448Hundred Years' War: peace negotiations break down over the issue of English control over Brittany.source
  • 1485A solar eclipse crosses northern South America and Central Europe. (March 8 O.S.) Although King Richard III's wife, the Queen Consort, dies on March 16, 1485 as well, the Julian calendar date is eight days sooner than the Gregorian calendar date of March 24.source
  • 1494Maximilian, King of the Romans, marries Bianca Maria Sforza, sister of the Duke of Milan after the annulment of his marriage to Anne, Duchess of Brittany.source
  • 1499Louis XII establishes the Parlement de Normandie (Court of Exchequer) in Rouen, restructuring Normandy's judicial system into a permanent judicial institution.source
  • 1504In what is now India's Kerala state, a second invasion of the Portuguese-supported Kingdom of Cochin by the Zamorin of Calicut takes place, beginning a war that lasts until July 3.source
  • 1517The Fifth Council of the Lateran ends after almost five years of conferences on discussing reforms within the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1521Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines, in eastern Samar.source
  • 1544The Battle of Glasgow is fought for control of Scotland between Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox and the troops of the Regent, James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arransource
  • 1544Battle of Glasgow (1544)source
  • 1544Friedrich II becomes the new Elector Palatine of Germany's Rhineland within the Holy Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Ludwig V at Heidelberg.source
  • 1565Spanish Conquistador López de Legazpi makes a blood compact (sandugan) with Datu Sikatuna in the island of Bohol, Philippines.source
  • 1575Edmund O'Donnell is hanged, drawn and quartered in Cork as a traitor, the first Jesuit executed by the English government.source
  • 1608Gwanghaegun becomes the new King of Korea upon the death of his father, King Seonjo, who had reigned for more than 40 years.source
  • 1621Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them: "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."source
  • 1649An over 1,000 strong war party of Haudenosaunee Iroquois invade and burn the Huron mission villages of St. Ignace and St. Louis in present-day Simcoe County, Ontario, killing about 300 people.source
  • 1660The Long Parliament, after having been reassembled for the first time in more than 11 years, votes for its own dissolution and calls for new elections for what will become the Convention Parliament to make the return from republic to monarchy.source
  • 1665Bucharest allows Jews to settle in the city, in exchange for an annual tax of 16 guilders.source
  • 1672At the Synod of Jerusalem, presided over by Dositheos II of Jerusalem, the 68 bishops and representatives from the whole of Eastern Orthodox Christendom close by approving the Orthodox dogma against the challenge of Protestantism, declaring against "the falsehoods of the adversaries which they have devised against the Eastern Church" and making a goal of "reformation of their innovations and for their return to the catholic and apostolic church in which their forefathers also were."source
  • 1679The institution Chancellor of Norway is abolished, ending a tradition that had lasted for 400 years.source
  • 1696The Dutch bombard Givet during the Nine Years' War.source
  • 1730The establishment by Thomas Cresap of Wright's Ferry under the authority of the Province of Pennsylvania becomes the basis for Cresap's War, a nine-year-long conflict also known as the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute; the conflict mainly centers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and York County, Pennsylvania on either bank of the Susquehanna River.source
  • 1731The Treaty of Vienna is signed between the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and Spain.source
  • 1731Treaty of Vienna signed between the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and Spain.source
  • 1737In Paris, representatives of Spain and Portugal sign an armistice bringing an end to the Spanish–Portuguese War over the area now occupied by the nation of Uruguay and the area now occupied by the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. The news does not reach the fighting parties until five months later.source
  • 1737In Paris, representatives sign an armistice bringing an end to the Spanish–Portuguese War (1735–1737).source
  • 1740King Edward of the Miskito Indians signs a treaty making his kingdom, located on the coast of modern-day Nicaragua, a protectorate of Great Britain.source
  • 1754Ten days after the death of British Prime Minister Henry Pelham, his brother Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, forms a government as the new Prime Minister of Great Britain.source
  • 1758Members of the Comanche Nation loot and destroy the Spanish Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá (near modern-day Menard, Texas) and kill eight of the people there, including the mission leader, Father Alonso Giraldo de Terreros.source
  • 1769Louis Antoine de Bougainville returns to Saint-Malo, following a three-year circumnavigation of the world with the ships Boudeuse and Étoile, with the loss of only seven out of 330 men; among the members of the expedition is Jeanne Baré, the first woman known to have circumnavigated the globe. She returns to France some time after Bougainville and his ships.source
  • 1769Louis Antoine de Bougainville returns to Saint-Malo, following a three-year circumnavigation of the world with the ships Boudeuse and Étoile, with the loss of only seven out of 330 men; among the members of the expedition is Jeanne Baré, the first woman known to have circumnavigated the globe (she returns to France some time after Bougainville and his ships).source
  • 1773March 9–19 – Second voyage of James Cook: Tobias Furneaux in HMS Adventure explores the coast of Van Diemen's Land.source
  • 1781Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives in Vienna after being fired by the Archbishop of Salzburg. He would stay there for the rest of his brief life.source
  • 1792Assassination of Gustav III: King Gustav III of Sweden is shot in the back by Jacob Johan Anckarström, at a midnight masquerade at the Royal Opera in Stockholm; he lives until March 29, and is then succeeded by his 14-year-old son, Gustav IV Adolf.source
  • 1797Battle of Valvasone: The Austrian army, led by Archduke Charles, fights a rearguard action at the crossing of the Tagliamento River, but is defeated by Napoleon Bonaparte at Valvasone.source
  • 1801Edinburgh music teacher Anne Gunn is granted the first British patent for a board game, designed as a music teaching aid.source
  • 1802The United States Army Corps of Engineers is re-established, and the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York is established under its management, opening on July 4.source
  • 1802Congress authorizes the establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.source
  • 1811Battle of Grimstad Bay.source
  • 1812April 6 – Siege of Badajoz (Peninsular War): The Anglo-Portuguese Army, under the Earl of Wellington, besieges Badajoz, Spain and forces the surrender of the French garrison.source
  • 1812April 6 - Siege of Badajoz (1812)source
  • 1815William I becomes King of the Netherlands.source
  • 1816U.S. Secretary of State James Monroe is nominated by a caucus of Democratic-Republican Party members of Congress, to be its party's representative in the U.S. presidential election; Monroe receives 65 votes, and Secretary of War William H. Crawford receives 54 votes.source
  • 1826The Australian Subscription Library, the forerunner of the State Library of New South Wales, is founded; it opens, 1 December 1827.source
  • 1827Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by John Russwurm.source
  • 1831Victor Hugo's historical romantic Gothic novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, is published in Paris.source
  • 1843The city of Petrópolis is founded by the government of Brazil.source
  • 1850Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical novel The Scarlet Letter is published in Boston, Massachusetts.source
  • 1852Voortrekker leaders, Andries Pretorius and Hendrik Potgieter reconcilesource
  • 1855Bates College is founded by abolitionists in Lewiston, Maine.source
  • 1867An article by Joseph Lister outlining his use of antiseptic surgery is first published in The Lancet.source
  • 1867first publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.source
  • 1871Mokrani Revolt breaks out in French Algeria against colonial rule.source
  • 18721872 FA Cup Final: In the first ever final of the FA Cup, the world's oldest football competition, Wanderers F.C. defeat Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.source
  • 1886A law establishing the Kiel Canal is adopted in the German Empire.source
  • 1886it is announced in the House of Commons to acclamation that John Constable's painting The Hay Wain (1821) has been presented to the National Gallery in London by collector Henry Vaughan and hung there today.source
  • 1888France annexes the Polynesian kingdom of Raiatea and Taha'a.source
  • 1888The foundation stone for a new National Library of Greece is laid in Athens.source
  • 189516 March Ireland 2–2 Wales (in Belfast)source
  • 1897An agreement for the construction of the careening dock and the shipyard Cantiere navale di Palermo was signed between the government and the Ignazio Florio Jr., scion of the wealthy Florio family, and shipowner and owner of the Navigazione Generale Italiana company, which provided regular services within Sicily and to the ports of Naples and Marseille. The financing of the work was divided between the Florio family (66%), the Italian State, the Municipality of Palermo and the Province of Palermo, as well as a small subsidy from the Cassa di Risparmio of Palermo.source
  • 1898In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopt a constitution which will become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.source
  • 1899In the U.S. at Palmetto, Georgia, a lynch mob kills four African-American suspects who had been arrested on suspicion of arson.source
  • 1899Memorial ceremonies are held for the burial of the late German hero Otto von Bismarck and his wife, Johanna von Puttkamer with their re-interment at the Bismarck Mausoleum, a modern-day tourist attraction at Friedrichsruh in Aumühle. Bismarck, who had died on July 30 last, had been buried along with his wife at the estate of his home in Varzin, the modern-day city of Warcino in Poland.source
  • 1900British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on Crete on which the ruins of the Palace of Knossos stand. He begins to unearth some of the palace three days later.source
  • 1905March 14 – 23 of the 26 crew of the British barque Kyber die when the ship is wrecked off England's Land's End.source
  • 1907March 15–16 – Elections to the new Parliament of Finland are the first in the world for a national assembly with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied; 19 women are elected.source
  • 1912Lawrence Oates, dying member of Scott's South Pole expedition, leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."source
  • 1916Mexican Revolution: The U.S. 7th and 10th Cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the border, to join the hunt for Villa.source
  • 1917Governor-General of Finland Franz Albert Seyn is removed from his office and arrestedsource
  • 1917March 16 (N.S.) (March 3, O.S.) – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia refuses the throne, and power passes to the newly formed Provisional Government, under Prince Georgy Lvov.source
  • 1919Société Nationale de Crédit à l'Industrie foundedsource
  • 1920March 13–17 – Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz's Kapp Putsch (an attempted coup in Germany) briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin, but fails due to public resistance and a general strike.source
  • 1920March 15–16 – Constantinople is occupied by British Empire forces, acting for the Allied Powers against the Turkish National Movement. Retrospectively, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey regards this as the dissolution of the Ottoman regime in Istanbul.source
  • 1921Treaty of Moscow establishes friendly relations between the Government of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.source
  • 1922The Rand Rebellion, which began as a strike by white South African mine workers on 28 December 1921 and became open rebellion against the state, is suppressed.source
  • 1925At a meeting of the Irish Boundary Commission in County Down witnesses from Newry and Kilkeel support being included in the Irish Free State.source
  • 1925At 22:42 local time a 7.0 earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan killing 5,000 people.source
  • 1926Ambassadors representing eight countries that were signatory nations to the Boxer Protocol send an ultimatum to the Beiyang Government under Duan Qirui, demanding that the Duan government destroy all defense establishments on the Taku Forts.source
  • 1926Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.source
  • 1926Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.source
  • 1935Adolf Hitler announces German re-armament in violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.source
  • 1935Maximiliano Hernández Martínez opened the 1935 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador.source
  • 1938Belfast Harbour Airport at Sydenham is opened, with the inaugural commercial flight to Glasgow.source
  • 1939March 10–21 — 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)source
  • 1940Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian writer and film directorsource
  • 19411941 Colombian parliamentary election: The Liberal Party obtains a majority in the Chamber of Representatives.source
  • 1942British war planes bombarded Milas. They claimed this event as an error.source
  • 1945The Bombing of Würzburg, as part of the Allied strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany, destroys 89% of the city and causes 4,000 deaths.source
  • 1945Establishment of the Congress of Labor Organizations (CLO), a federation of labor organizations organized by former leaders of the Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa mga Hapon (Hukbalahap).source
  • 1946American Liberty ship Byron Darnton runs aground off Sanda Island; all 54 aboard are rescued.source
  • 1949Australia's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is established, by order of the Directive for the Establishment and Maintenance of a Security Service.source
  • 1952March 15–16 – 73 inches (1,870 mm) of rain falls in Cilaos, Réunion, the most rainfall in one day up to that time.source
  • 1957Rede Ferroviária Federal, a public company responsible for the operation of 19 unified railways, is created by Federal Law n° 3,115.source
  • 1957Representing Luxembourg, Danièle Dupré finishes fourth in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958 with the song Amours mortes (tant de peine).source
  • 1958Representing Luxembourg, Solange Berry finishes ninth (and joint-last) in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958 with the song Un grand amour.source
  • 1962Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation chartered by the United States Military Air Transport Service, and carrying mainly United States Army personnel bound for South Vietnam, vanishes over the western Pacific Ocean, with the loss of all 107 on board (no wreckage or bodies are ever found).source
  • 1964Turkey unilaterally denounced the Greek-Turkish Convention of Establishment, Commerce and Navigation of 1930, marking the beginning of a mass expulsion of the Greek populace.source
  • 1966NASA spacecraft Gemini 8 (David Scott, Neil Armstrong) conducts the first docking in space, with an Agena target vehicle.source
  • 1968U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy enters the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.source
  • 1968Vietnam War – My Lai massacre: American troops kill between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians and rape women and children. The story, initially covered up as a military victory, will first become public in November 1969 and will help undermine public support for the U.S. efforts in Vietnam.source
  • 1970The complete New English Bible is published in the UK.source
  • 1976Downtown Radio, an adult contemporary music station, begins broadcasting from Newtownards to the Belfast area, the first Independent Local Radio in Northern Ireland.source
  • 1982Claus von Bülow is found guilty of the attempted murder of his wife by a court in Newport, Rhode Island.source
  • 1983Two Chinese newspapers, the Nanyang Siang Pau and Sin Chew Jit Poh, merged to become Lianhe Zaobao and Lianhe Wanbao.source
  • 1984Gary Plauché shoots his son's rapist at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airportsource
  • 1984John Hoagland, 36, photojournalist, shot.source
  • 1985Lebanon hostage crisis: US journalist Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he remains a prisoner until December 4, 1991.source
  • 1988The Halabja chemical attack is carried out by Iraqi government forces.source
  • 1988The Halabja massacre is carried out by Iraqi forces using chemical weapons in the northern Kurdish city of Halabja, which was occupied by Iran days earlier as part of the Iran–Iraq War.source
  • 1988In the United States, the First Republic Bank of Texas fails and enters FDIC receivership, the largest FDIC assisted bank failure in history.source
  • 1988Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.source
  • 1997Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International.source
  • 2000March 12–26 – Pope John Paul II visits Israel, and thus becomes the second pope to visit Israel. During his stay, the Pope visits Yad Vashem (the Israeli national Holocaust memorial) and the Western Wall placing a letter inside it in which he prayed for forgiveness for the actions against Jews in the past.source
  • 2002Sofia Gubaidulina's Johannes-Ostern is premiered, together with her earlier Johannes-Passion, at Hamburg's Michaeliskirche, performed by soloists, choir and orchestra from the Mariinsky Theatre combined with NDR choir and orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev.source
  • 2007The Inter-American Development Bank forgives US$4.4 billion in debt owed by Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti and Guyana, five of the poorest countries in the Americas.source
  • 2010The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed by fire.source
  • 2013Cyprus defeat Bulgaria 79–10 in the European Nations Cup Second Division to earn their 18th consecutive Test victory. This at least ties the all-time record for consecutive Test wins, and (depending on the source) may be a new record.source
  • 20142014 Crimean status referendum: A disputed referendum on the status of the Crimean Peninsula is held.source
  • 2014The fifth ICC T20 World Cup in cricket is held in Bangladesh.source
  • 2018Former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was denied entry of U.S. visa under the Trump administration's travel ban.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
  • 2020The DJIA falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25%.source
  • 20201st case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Beninsource
  • 20222022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: A Russian airstrike on the Mariupol Theatre in Mariupol kills an estimated 600 civilians sheltering inside.source
  • 2023March 8–21 – The 2023 World Baseball Classic is held in, and won by, Japan.source
  • 2024March 15–17 – 2024 Russian presidential election: Incumbent Vladimir Putin is reelected for a fifth term.source
  • 2025March 8–17 – The 2025 Special Olympics World Winter Games are held in Turin, Italy.source
  • 2025A fire breaks out in a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, killing at least 59 people and injuring 155 others.source
  • 2025A fire at a nightclub in Kočani kills 62 people and injures 196 others.source

Births

  • 1399Xuande Emperor of China (died 1435)source
  • 1445Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born priest (died 1510)source
  • 1465Kunigunde of Austria, Archduchess of Austria (died 1520)source
  • 1473Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (1539–1541) (died 1541)source
  • 1505Francisco Balbi di Correggio (died 1589)source
  • 1559Amar Singh I, eldest son and successor of Maharana Pratap of Mewar (died 1620)source
  • 155916 March Amar Singh I, later Maharana of Mewar is born in Chittor Fort (dies 1620)source
  • 1687Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Frederick William I (died 1757)source
  • 1693Malhar Rao Holkar, Indian nobleman (died 1766)source
  • 1720Cecilie Christine Schøller, socialite (died 1786).source
  • 1739George Clymer, American politician and Founding Father (died 1813)source
  • 1750Caroline Herschel, German astronomer (died 1848)source
  • 1751James Madison, fourth President of the United States (died 1836)source
  • 1774Captain Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (died 1814)source
  • 1789Georg Ohm, German physicist (died 1854)source
  • 1799Anna Atkins, British botanist (died 1871)source
  • 1829George M. Robeson, American politician (died 1897)source
  • 1834Sir James Hector, Scottish geologist (died 1907)source
  • 183416 March (in Scotland): James Hector, geologist.source
  • 1878Clemens August Graf von Galen, German Catholic cardinal (died 1946)source
  • 1878Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (died 1944)source
  • 1926Jerry Lewis, American comedian, humanitarian and philanthropist (known for The Nutty Professor) (died 2017)source
  • 1927Vladimir Komarov, test pilot and cosmonautsource
  • 1951Mohammad Sadeghi (footballer, born 1952), Iranian footballer.source
  • 1959Jens Stoltenberg, 27th Prime Minister of Norwaysource
  • 1965Mark Carney, Canadian economist and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Canadasource
  • 1994Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball playersource
  • 1994Joel Embiid, basketball playersource

Deaths

  • 37Tiberius, Roman emperor (born 42 BC)source
  • 255Guanqiu Jian, Chinese general and politiciansource
  • 453Emperor Wen of Song, assassinated (born 407)source
  • 453Emperor Wen of Song is assassinated by his sons Liu Shao and Liu Jun, Prince Shixing, so that Liu Shao can become emperor.source
  • 455Heraclius, Roman courtier (primicerius sacri cubiculi )source
  • 455Valentinian III, emperor of the Western Roman Empire (born 419)source
  • 455Emperor Valentinian III, age 35, is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers of the late Flavius Aetius, while training with the bow on the Campus Martius (Rome), ending the Theodosian dynasty. His primicerius sacri cubiculi, Heraclius, is also murdered.source
  • 842Xiao Mian, chancellor of the Tang Dynastysource
  • 933Takin al-Khazari, Abbasid governor of Egyptsource
  • 943Pi Guangye, chancellor of Wuyue (born 877)source
  • 1021Heribert, archbishop of Cologne (born c. 970)source
  • 1072Adalbert, archbishop of Hamburgsource
  • 1181Henry I (the Liberal), French nobleman (born 1127)source
  • 1185The 23-year-old Baldwin IV of Jerusalem ("the Leper King") dies of leprosy after a 10-year reign. He is succeeded by his 8-year-old nephew, Baldwin V, as the sole ruler of Jerusalem under the regency of Count Raymond of Tripoli. The child-king becomes a pawn in the politics of the kingdom, between his mother Sibylla of Jerusalem (sister of Baldwin IV) and her younger half-sister Isabella I.source
  • 1185Baldwin IV ("the Leper King"), king of Jerusalem (born 1161)source
  • 1237Guðmundur Arason, Icelandic bishop (born 1161)source
  • 1238Benchō, Japanese Buddhist monk (born 1162)source
  • 1278William IV, German nobleman and knight (born 1210)source
  • 1279Joan of Dammartin, Spanish queen consort (born 1220)source
  • 1291Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari, Indian Sufi preacher (born 1196)source
  • 1322Humphrey de Bohun, English nobleman (born 1276)source
  • 1377March 16 or March 17 – Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke and Foundress of Pembroke College, Cambridge (born c.1303)source
  • 1405Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (born 1350)source
  • 1410John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (born 1373)source
  • 1457László Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (born 1433)source
  • 1485Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (born 1456)source
  • 1506Battle of Cannanore: Portugal's fleet (commanded by Lourenço de Almeida) defeats the fleet of the Zamorin of Calicut, with hundreds of vessels involved; 3,000 Muslim troops are killed.source
  • 1515Queen Janggyeong, Korean royal consort (born 1491)source
  • 1533John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English soldier and statesman (born 1467)source
  • 1543George Cromer, Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland).source
  • 1544Louis V, Elector Palatine (1508–1544) (born 1478)source
  • 1608Seonjo of Joseon, King of Joseon (born 1552)source
  • 1613Ikeda Terumasa, Japanese daimyō (born 1565)source
  • 1649Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (born 1593)source
  • 1664Ivan Vyhovsky, Ukrainian Cossack leadersource
  • 1679John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1616)source
  • 1679Johan Frederik von Marschalck, the last Chancellor of Norway (born 1618).source
  • 1683Henrik Bjelke, admiral (born 1615).source
  • 1698Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Danish countess (born 1621)source
  • 1698Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, noblewoman and writer (born 1621)source
  • 1736Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (born 1710)source
  • 1738George Bähr, German architect (born 1666)source
  • 1801Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, daughter of Paul I of Russia (b.1783)source
  • 1825Camilo Henríquez (born 1769)source
  • 1830Sir Robert Farquhar, British merchant, colonial governor and politician (born 1776)source
  • 1838Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician (born 1773)source
  • 1845Manuel Rengifo (born 1793)source
  • 1914Charles Albert Gobat, politician (born 1843)source
  • 1969Viasa Flight 742 crashes into a neighborhood in Maracaibo, Venezuela, shortly after taking off for Miami; all 84 people on board the DC-9 jet are killed along with 71 people on the ground.source
  • 1971Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York; American presidential candidate (born 1902)source
  • 1978Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the Red Brigades; 5 bodyguards are killed.source
  • 1984The United States Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley, is kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad Organization and later dies in captivity.source
  • 1988Milltown Cemetery attack: Three men are killed and 70 wounded in a gun and grenade attack by loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone on mourners at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the funerals of the 3 IRA members killed in Gibraltar.source
  • 2001Shijiazhuang bombings: 108 people are killed in a series of bombings in Shijiazhuang, China.source
  • 2002Kid Azteca, 88, Mexican boxer.source
  • 2003Rachel Corrie, 23, American International Solidarity Movement activist, crushed by Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer.source