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March 19 in history

182 sourced entries recorded on March 19, from 304 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 625Battle of Uhud: Muhammad retreats against the inhabitants of Mecca (Saudi Arabia), which they consider a victory.source
  • 1148Louis VII and his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, are welcomed at St. Symeon by Eleanor's uncle Raymond of Poitiers and all his household. Raymond escorts the French crusaders to Antioch, where for the next days festivities are held. He urges Louis to accompany him on an expedition against Aleppo but Louis refuses and prefers instead to finish his pilgrimage to Jerusalem.source
  • 1205Battle of Adramyttion: The Byzantine army, under Constantine Laskaris (brother of Theodore I), appears before the walls of Adramyttium – surprising the Latin garrison. Meanwhile, Henry of Flanders, not wanting to remain trapped within the city, opens the gates and charges out with his heavy cavalry. He and his knights defeat the Byzantine forces, who are scattered and forced to retreat.source
  • 1277Byzantine–Venetian Treaty: Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos concludes an agreement with the Republic of Venice. Stipulating a two-year truce, and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire. Michael keeps the Venetians and their fleet from participating in the attempts of Charles I, king of Sicily, to organize an anti-Byzantine crusade, while the Venetians can retain their access to the Byzantine market.source
  • 1279Battle of Yamen: Kublai Khan's Mongol Yuan fleet attacks the Chinese Song fleet (some 1,000 ships) under Admiral Zhang Shijie at Yamen. The Mongols send fireships, but this is not effective as the Song fleet is coated with fire-resistant mud. Zhang Hongfan, commander of the Mongol forces, orders the Song fleet to be cut off from its base, depriving it of its supplies. He splits the Yuan fleet into four squadrons and again attacks the Song. The ill and weakened Song soldiers are no match for the Mongols in close combat, and the chaotic environment makes battle command impossible. The chained Song ships can neither support or maneuver. Song Chancellor Lu Xiufu and Emperor Zhao Bing drown themselves rather than be taken captive. This marks the end of the Song dynasty after three centuries, Kublai Khan becomes sole emperor of China. The Mongol Empire reaches its largest extent, although it has already partially fragmented.source
  • 1305Amir Chupan, the Duke of Yi, is betrothed to Dowlandi Khatun, the daughter of Öljaitü.source
  • 1367The Battle of Inglesmendi is fought in the Crown of Castile (now in Spain) by English troops led by Edward the Black Prince and supporters of the recently deposed King Pedro of Castile who are seeking to restore Pedro to the Castilian throne, against the supporters of the reigning King Enrique II. The knight William Felton is killed and his brother Thomas Felton is taken prisoner of war.source
  • 1398Abu Said Uthman III succeeds his older brother Abdallah ibn Ahmad II as the ruler of the Marinid dynasty in modern-day Morocco, reigning until his death in 1420.source
  • 1419(26 Muharram 822 AH) Sultan al-Malik al-Nāsir of Yemen presents a set of Yemeni gifts for the Chinese envoy to Aden to take back to China's Emperor Cheng Zu, after having received gifts from the Chinese in January.source
  • 1439Aedh mac Tairdelbach becomes the new King of Connacht (in modern-day County Roscommon) in Ireland upon the death of his nephew, Cathal mac Ruaidri Ó Conchobair, who had been King of Connacht since 1426.source
  • 1441Isidore of Kiev, the Russian Orthodox Church Metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia, returns to his home in Moscow after having attended the Council of Florence, where he agreed to unify the Russian Church with the Roman Catholic Church. When he arrives, he is arrested on the order of Grand Prince Vasily II and imprisoned under minimum security.source
  • 1447The coronation of Tommaso Parentucelli as Pope Nicholas V takes place in Rome. The crown is placed upon his head by Cardinal Prospero Colonna, who had come within two votes of being selected as the Pope on March 5.source
  • 1448The Battle of Río Verde is fought as the 600-member cavalry of the Crown of Castile, is retreating from an attack led by Juan de Saavedra, against invaders from the Emirate of Granada, led by the Sultan Yusuf V. The 1,500 Granadan cavalry overwhelm the Castilians and massacre all but five of the 600 soldiers, while taking Saavedra as a prisoner of war.source
  • 1452Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes the last to be crowned in Rome.source
  • 1474The Senate of the Republic of Venice enacts the Venetian Patent Statute, one of the earliest patent systems in the world. New and inventive devices, once put into practice, have to be communicated to the Republic to obtain the right to prevent others from using them. This is considered the first modern patent system.source
  • 1487Charles, Count of Angoulême surrenders during the Mad Warsource
  • 1491Having defected to France, Alain I of Albret captures the Château des ducs de Bretagne, the royal palace of Brittany's capital, Nantes, after the Breton regent, the Marshal Jean IV de Rieux, leads the evacuation of Breton officials.source
  • 1497Persecution of Jews and Muslims by Manuel I of Portugal: Forced conversion of Jews in Portugal begins.source
  • 1563The Edict of Amboise is signed at the Château d'Amboise by Catherine de' Medici, acting as regent for her son Charles IX of France, having been negotiated between the Huguenot Louis I, Prince of Condé, and Anne, duc de Montmorency, Constable of France. It accords some toleration to the Huguenots, especially to aristocrats. It officially ends the first phase of the French Wars of Religion, and the combined Huguenot and royal armies then march north to besiege the English in Le Havre.source
  • 1563Edict of Amboise is signed at the Château d'Amboise by Catherine de' Medici, acting as regent for her son Charles IX of France, having been negotiated between the Huguenot Louis, Prince of Condé, and Anne, duc de Montmorency, Constable of France, according some toleration to Huguenots, especially to aristocrats; this officially ends the first phase of the French Wars of Religion, and the combined Huguenot and royal armies then march north to besiege the English in Le Havresource
  • 1598Count Adolf von Schwarzenberg of Austria captures the Turkish fortress at Győr, four years after Turkish forces had taken it over.source
  • 1604King James opens his first parliamentary session as King of England. In his opening speech to the "Blessed Parliament", the King makes clear that he wants to bring a legal union between England and Scotland and that he does not wish to be "a husband to two wives." The House of Commons refuses to agree with him on the unification of the crown or on the funding that the King requests.source
  • 1606Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in the Fortezza Vecchia Chapel of Saint Francesco, elevates Livorno to the rank of city.source
  • 1609The Dutch warship Mauritius sinks off the coast of the Cape of Cape Lopes Gonçalves on the modern-day West African nation of Gabon. The wreckage of the Mauritius will not be located until 375 years later, in 1985.source
  • 1616Sir Walter Ralegh, English explorer of the New World, is released from prison in the Tower of London, where he has been imprisoned for treason, in order to conduct a second (ill-fated) expedition, in search of El Dorado in South America.source
  • 1616The Scornful Lady, a comedy stage play written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, is published.source
  • 1642Irish Rebellion of 1641: The citizens of Galway seize an English naval ship and close the town gates in support of the rebellion.source
  • 1642the citizens of Galway seize an English naval ship and close the town gates in support of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.source
  • 1649The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, which it describes in the act as "useless and dangerous to the people of England".source
  • 1649The House of Commons passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring that it is "useless and dangerous to the people of England".source
  • 1664Polish astronomer Jan Heweliusz becomes the first native of Poland to be inducted into England's Royal Society.source
  • 1669Christopher Wren appointed Surveyor of the King's Works.source
  • 1684In Japan, the Tenna era ends on the 21st day of the 2nd month of the Chinese calendar of the 4th year of the Tenna era and the Jōkyō era begins as Japan's royal astronomer, Shibukawa Shunkai institutes the Jōkyō calendar to replace Chinese calendar which had been used in Japan since 859 AD, after calculating that the length of the solar year is 365.2417 days.source
  • 1687The men under explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle mutiny, while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. Pierre Duhaut murders La Salle, near what is now Navasota, Texas.source
  • 1702March 19 (March 8 Old Style) – Princess Anne Stuart, daughter of the late King James II and younger sister of his successor, Mary II (who had reigned jointly with her husband, William III, as William and Mary until her death in 1694), ascends the English, Scottish and Irish thrones upon William's death. In her first speech to the English Parliament, made three days later, she tells the assembly "As I know my heart to be entirely English, I can very sincerely assure you there is not anything you can expect or desire from me which I shall not be ready to do for the happiness and prosperity of England." Anne is the mother of 17 children by her husband, Prince George of Denmark and Norway, but none will survive childhood, and she will die without an heir, bringing an end to the reign of the House of Stuart and enabling the Hanoverian Succession. After the death of William, the States General of the Netherlands do not appoint a new stadtholder, and so the Dutch Republic becomes a true republic again, starting the Second Stadtholderless Period.source
  • 1703The Siege of Guadeloupe begins as an English expeditionary force, led by Christopher Codrington and Hovenden Walker, lands at Basse-Terre and attempts to take over the French-held island. The English fleet departs on May 15 after being unable to capture Guadeloupe.source
  • 1703Swedish victory at the Battle of Saločiai.source
  • 1707The Act of Union with Scotland is ratified by the Parliament of England; the Parliament of Scotland is adjourned for the last time on May 1, 1707.source
  • 1707The Act of Union with Scotland is passed by the Parliament of England.source
  • 17221722 British general election begins, the second during the reign of George I.source
  • 1729John of Nepomuk (Jan Nepomucký) of Bohemia is canonized by Pope Benedict XIII more than 300 years after being tortured and drowned in 1393 by order of King Wenceslaus IV; John becomes patron saint of Roman Catholics in the Czech Republic.source
  • 1732Chamaraja Wodeyar VII becomes the new Maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore in Southern India, now the state of Karnataka and parts of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.source
  • 1746an act of the Parliament of Great Britain prohibits the export of glass from Ireland.source
  • 1747Simon Fraser, the 79-year old Scottish Lord Lovat, is convicted of high treason for being one of the leaders of the Jacobite rising of 1745 against King George II of Great Britain and attempting to place the pretender Charles Edward Stuart on the throne.source
  • 1754The counties of Gullbringu and Kjósarsýsla are formed by the merger of two counties.source
  • 1773March 9–19 – Second voyage of James Cook: Tobias Furneaux in HMS Adventure explores the coast of Van Diemen's Land.source
  • 1783Zong massacre: the case of a British slave trader who, in 1781, threw approximately 142 slaves overboard to conserve supplies for the remainder, the owners subsequently attempting to reclaim part of their value from insurers, is revealed by Olaudah Equiano to anti-slavery activist Granville Sharp, creating new support for abolitionism.source
  • 1790HMS Sirius, while transporting supplies to Norfolk Island, becomes wrecked and destroyed on a reef. This destroys many of the colony's supplies, and Phillip is again forced to introduce rationing to avoid famine.source
  • 1808Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.source
  • 1812The Cortes of Cádiz creates the first modern Spanish constitution.source
  • 1812ratification of the Spanish Constitution of 1812source
  • 1822Boston, Massachusetts, is incorporated as a city following a vote.source
  • 1822The Holy Alliance sends the Ottoman Empire a final ultimatum after Ottoman repression of Austrian subjects in Bucharest during the Wallachian uprising, otherwise facing war with Austria.source
  • 1823Emperor Agustín de Iturbide of Mexico abdicates, thus ending the short-lived First Mexican Empire.source
  • 1824American explorer Benjamin Morrell departs Antarctica after a voyage later plagued by claims of fraud.source
  • 1830The suspension bridge at Montrose partly collapses due to movement of a crowd watching a boat race from it, with the loss of at least 4 lives.source
  • 1837The first permanent European settlement in Canterbury. Prussian whaling captain George Hempleman (var. Hemplemann) establishes a whaling station at Peraki Bay, Banks Peninsula. Hempleman and his wife are the first German settlers in New Zealand.source
  • 1840The Council House Fight results in the deaths of 35 Comanche and seven Texas Rangers/militia, ending any hopes for peace in the Texas–Indian wars.source
  • 1850American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.source
  • 1858Senekal's War breaks out between the Orange Free State and the Basotho tribe.source
  • 1863The SS Georgiana is destroyed on her maiden voyage while attempting to run the blockade into Charleston, South Carolina. The wreck is discovered exactly 102 years later, by E. Lee Spence.source
  • 1865March 19–21 – American Civil War : Battle of Bentonville: Union troops compel Confederate forces to retreat from Four Oaks, North Carolina.source
  • 1866Sister Mary MacKillop founds the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart at Penola, South Australia.source
  • 1870The Ohio Legislature passes the Cannon Act, thereby establishing the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College, later Ohio State University.source
  • 1880The horse Empress and its jockey, Tommy Beasley, win the 1880 Grand Nationalsource
  • 189219 March Ireland 2–3 Scotland (in Belfast)source
  • 1896Dvořák's Cello Concerto premieres, in London.source
  • 1898Wales defeat Ireland 11–3 in a game played at Thomond Park, Limericksource
  • 1899The Battle of Taguig takes place in the Philippines as the USS Laguna de Bay bombards the Katipunan stronghold.source
  • 1899A tornado outbreak in the southern U.S. kills multiple people.source
  • 1899One of the first labor unions for government employees is formed with the organization in Denmark of the Copenhagen Municipal Workers' Unionsource
  • 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
  • 1911International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time across Europe.source
  • 1913The renovation project of Wufeng Temple was completed, and Governor Sakuma Mata personally presided over the ceremony. (the monument was built on 24 October 1914.)source
  • 1915Pluto is photographed for the first time, but is not recognised for what it is.source
  • 1918The United States Congress establishes time zones, and approves daylight saving time (DST goes into effect on March 31).source
  • 1932The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens in Australia.source
  • 1935Harlem riot of 1935: A race riot breaks out in Harlem (New York City), after a rumor circulates that a teenage Puerto Rican shoplifter in the S. H. Kress & Co. department store has been brutally beaten.source
  • 1936March 18–21. Strike action at Polish Rubber Factory Semperit in Kraków,source
  • 1937The encyclical Divini Redemptoris of Pope Pius XI, critical of communism, is published.source
  • 1938The 1938 Interstate Grand Prix is staged at the Wirlinga circuit in New South Wales.source
  • 1939March 10–21 — 18th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)source
  • 1944The secular oratorio A Child of Our Time by Michael Tippett is premiered at the Adelphi Theatre in London.source
  • 1945Off the coast of Japan, bombers hit the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing about 800 of her crewmen and crippling the ship.source
  • 1945Adolf Hitler issues the "Nero Decree" ordering that all industries, military installations, machine shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed ahead of Allied advances, but Albert Speer, placed in charge of the implementation, deliberately disobeys it.source
  • 1947The 19th Academy Awards Ceremony is held. The movie The Best Years of Our Lives wins the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with several other Academy Awards.source
  • 1948The Australian cricket team stops by in Ceylon, en route to England during their 1948 tour of England, where they played a one-day single-innings match—not limited overs—against the Ceylon national team at the Colombo Oval.source
  • 1953The 25th Academy Awards Ceremony is held (the first one broadcast on television).source
  • 1954Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory at Madison Square Garden in the first televised boxing prize fight to be shown in colour.source
  • 1956At age 48, Dutch boxer Bep van Klaveren contests his last match in Rotterdam.source
  • 1958The Monarch Underwear Company fire occurs in New York, United States, killing 24 people.source
  • 1959The other two southern islands of the Maldives, Huvadhu Atoll and Fuvahmulah, join Addu Atoll in forming the United Suvadive Republic (abolished September 1963).source
  • 1962An armistice begins in Algeria; however, the OAS continues its terrorist attacks against Algerians.source
  • 1965U.N. Security Council Resolution 201 was adopted unanimously. In it, the Council extended the stationing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus for another 3 months, to end on June 26, 1965.source
  • 1965The wreck of the SS Georgiana, reputed to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser ever built and owned by the real Rhett Butler, is discovered off the Isle of Palms, South Carolina. It is discovered by teenage diver E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after she was sunk with a million-dollar cargo while attempting to run past the Union blockade into Charleston.source
  • 1968March 19–23 – Afrocentrism, Black Power, Vietnam War: Students at Howard University in Washington, D.C., signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S. Students stage rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more Afrocentric curriculum.source
  • 1970Ostpolitik: The leaders of West Germany and East Germany meet at a summit for the first time since Germany's division into two republics. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is greeted by cheering East German crowds as he arrives in Erfurt for a summit with his counterpart, East German Ministerpräsident Willi Stoph.source
  • 1972India and Bangladesh sign the Indo-Bangladeshi Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Peace.source
  • 1973Konami is established.source
  • 1977Results of elections to the Indian Parliament are declared. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party is routed by the opposition Janata alliance.source
  • 1977A Turkish aircraft hijacked to Beirut, Lebanonsource
  • 1979C-SPAN, an American television channel focusing on government and public affairs, is launched.source
  • 1979The government, steel companies, and trade unions reach an agreement on restructuring the steel industry.source
  • 1980March 19–20 – The MV Mi Amigo, the ship housing pirate radio station Radio Caroline, sinks off the English coast (the station returns aboard a new ship in 1983).source
  • 1982Argentine scrap metal workers (infiltrated by marines) raise the flag of Argentina on South Georgia and the Falkland Islands, two British overseas territories.source
  • 1988Corporals killings in Belfast: Two British Army corporals are abducted, beaten and shot dead by Irish republicans after driving into the funeral cortege of IRA members killed in the Milltown Cemetery attack.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
  • 2007The first solar eclipse of the year 2007 is a partial solar eclipse occurring just 0.7 days before perigee, making it very large. The Moon covers 87.558% of the Sun. In this partial solar eclipse, the best visibility occurs at 61º02'55" N, 55º28'04" E. It is the 20th solar eclipse of Solar Saros series 149, at ascending node. The Sun is its zenith just 83 km south of the Equator, so the Northern Hemisphere was in winter and the Southern Hemisphere was in summer on March 19, 2007.source
  • 2008An Energy release of a Gamma-ray burst called the GRB 080319B is the brightest event ever recorded in the Universe.source
  • 2010President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh declares an end to his country's six-year war against the Houthis.source
  • 2011In light of continuing attacks on Libyan rebels by forces in support of leader Muammar Gaddafi, military intervention authorized under UNSCR 1973 begins as French fighter jets make reconnaissance flights over Libya.source
  • 2015Bishop Richard Williamson consecrates Father Jean-Michel Faure as a Bishop in the Mosteiro da Santa Cruz.source
  • 2016A controversial video made by Red Bull, which showed a foreign man jumping on Borobudur, was condemned by netizens in Indonesia and residents of the area. Red Bull then pulled the video from its Facebook page.source
  • 2022The apostolic constitution Praedicate evangelium, reforming the Roman Curia, is promulgated by Pope Francis, coming into force on 5 June.source
  • 2023March 8–21 – The 2023 World Baseball Classic is held in, and won by, Japan.source
  • 2025Nationwide protests erupt across Turkey following the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, on charges of corruption and terrorism.source

Births

  • 1434Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shōgun (died 1443)source
  • 1488Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (died 1544)source
  • 1534José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary in Brazil (died 1597)source
  • 1542Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (died 1605)source
  • 1600Anders Bille, Marshal of the Realm (died 1657)source
  • 1601Alonso Cano, Spanish painter (died 1667)source
  • 1604King John IV of Portugal (died 1656)source
  • 1618Thomas Hinckley, last colonial governor of Plymouth Colony (died 1706)source
  • 1641Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Muslim scholar (died 1731)source
  • 1657Jean Leclerc, Swiss theologian and biblical scholar (died 1736)source
  • 1702Thomas Penn, son of American colonial leader William Penn (died 1775)source
  • 1721Tobias Smollett, Scottish physician and author (died 1771)source
  • 1722Edmund Nelson (clergyman), English priest (died 1802)source
  • 1731Gabriela Silang, Filipino rebel leader and heroine (died 1763)source
  • 1734Thomas McKean, American lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1817)source
  • 1739Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (died 1824)source
  • 1813David Livingstone, Scottish missionary explorer (died 1873)source
  • 1813David Livingstone, explorer and missionary, is born in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotlandsource
  • 1845Ramón Allende Padín (died 1884)source
  • 1848Wyatt Earp, American lawman and gunfighter (died 1929)source
  • 1849Alfred von Tirpitz, German admiral (died 1930)source
  • 1851Roque Sáenz Peña, President 1910–1914 (died 1914)source
  • 1860William Jennings Bryan, American politician (died 1925)source
  • 1883Joseph Stilwell, American general (died 1946)source
  • 1891Earl Warren, American politician and Chief Justice of the United States (died 1974)source
  • 1905Albert Speer, German Nazi official, architect (died 1981)source
  • 1906Adolf Eichmann, German war criminal (executed 1962)source
  • 1912Adolf Galland, German general, World War II fighter ace (died 1996)source
  • 1914Jiang Qing, Chinese politician (died 1991)source
  • 1917Dinu Lipatti – classical pianist and composer, posthumously elected into the Romanian Academy.source

Deaths

  • 304March 19/20 – Sima Ai, Chinese prince of the Jin dynasty (executed) (born 277)source
  • 953al-Mansur bi-Nasr Allah, Fatimid caliph (born 913)source
  • 953Caliph al-Mansur bi-Nasr Allah dies after a severe illness. He is succeeded by his 21-year-old son al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah as ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate. His authority is recognized over most of what later will be Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.source
  • 968Emma of Paris, duchess of Normandy (born 943)source
  • 1194Toghrul III, sultan of the Seljuk Empiresource
  • 1238Henry the Bearded, duke of Polandsource
  • 1244Isnardo da Chiampo, Italian preacher and priestsource
  • 1258March 19? – Clement of Dunblane, Scottish cleric, friar and bishopsource
  • 1263Hugh of Saint-Cher, French friar and bishop (born 1200)source
  • 1279Zhao Bing, Chinese emperor (House of Zhao) (born 1272)source
  • 1279Lu Xiufu (or Junshi), Chinese Grand Chancellor (born 1236)source
  • 1286March 19 (or 18) – Alexander III, king of Scotland (born 1241)source
  • 1286King Alexander III dies in a fall from his horse at Kinghorn in Fife, leaving Queen Yolande of Dreux's unborn child and the 3-year-old Margaret (Maid of Norway) as heirs to the throne. After Alexander's death, Scotland is governed by the nobility and clergy, known collectively as the Guardians of Scotland. This sets the stage for the First War of Scottish Independence.source
  • 1289John of Parma, Italian priest and theologian (born 1209)source
  • 1330Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, son of Edward I and brother of Edward II (executed by Roger Mortimer) (born 1301)source
  • 1372John II, Marquess of Montferrat (born 1321)source
  • 1568Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell, English noblewoman (b.c. 1518)source
  • 1581Francis I, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (born 1510)source
  • 1589Heo Nanseolheon, Korean poet (born 1563)source
  • 1611March 19–20 – The Moscow Uprising, an armed rising of the inhabitants of Moscow in the Tsardom of Russia against the military Polish–Lithuanian occupation of Moscow (Fall 1610–Fall 1612), results in the occupying forces starting a major fire in the city and the death of 6–7,000 Muscovites.source
  • 1637Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (born 1570)source
  • 1674Queen Inseon, Korean royal consort (born 1619)source
  • 1687Daniel Gookin, American soldier and politician (born 1612)source
  • 1687René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer and fur trader in North America (born 1643)source
  • 1711Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (born 1637)source
  • 1721Pope Clement XI (born 1649)source
  • 1756Maria Choglokova, courtier (born 1723)source
  • 1785Melchior Rasp, stonemasonsource
  • 1796Hugh Palliser, British naval officer, administrator (born 1722)source
  • 1801Ambrosio O'Higgins, 1st Marquis of Osorno, Spanish viceroy of Peru and Governor of the Captaincy General of Chile, father of Bernardo O'Higgins, (born c. 1720)source
  • 1816Filippo Mazzei, Italian physician, friend of Thomas Jefferson (born 1730)source
  • 1897Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-born traveler (born 1810)source
  • 1907Mariano Baptista, president of Bolivia (born 1832)source
  • 1930Arthur Balfour, British politician and statesman, 48th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1848)source
  • 1940Besim Ömer Akalın (born in 1862), MD and politiciansource
  • 2008Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 90, British science fiction author (2001: A Space Odyssey), heart failure.source