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March 2 in history

221 sourced entries recorded on March 2, from 264 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 264March 1–3 – Zhong Hui's Rebellion in China is quelled.source
  • 537Siege of Rome: The Ostrogothic army (45,000 men) under King Vitiges begins the siege of the city. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off.source
  • 996Emperor Ichijo orders the imperial police to raid Korechika's residence; Empress Teishi (sister of Korechika) cuts her hair because of the humiliation; Takaie is arrested, Korechika is absent.source
  • 1301(Shōan 3, 21st day of the 1st month) Emperor Go-Fushimi abdicates the throne after a 2½-year reign. He is succeeded by his 15-year-old cousin, Go-Nijō, as the 94th emperor of Japan. Go-Nijō will reign until 1308.source
  • 1354During the night between 1 and 2 March, a strong earthquake destroyed the city of Gallipoli and its city walls, weakening its defenses, along with destroying the neighboring villages and towns in the area.source
  • 1377The Bad Parliament dissolves and King Edward III gives royal assent to measures that roll back the 1376 legislation that he had been forced to agree to. He also approves the Bad Parliament's passage of a poll tax of four pennies for every male voter at least 14 years old, an attempt by the House of Commons to expand voting to the lower economic classes in return for expanding the tax burden from property owners to include those citizens who did not own property.source
  • 1401William Sawtrey, a Roman Catholic priest and adherent to the Lollard faith becomes the first person in England to be burned at the stake under the new De heretico comburendo law (officially the Suppression of Heresy Act 1400), dying at Smithfield, London after being convicted of heresy against the Roman Catholic faith.source
  • 1415At the Council of Constance, the Antipope John XXIII, chosen at the Council of Pisa, promises that he will resign all claims to leadership of the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1444The League of Lezhë, an alliance of Albanian principalities, is established in Lezhë; George Kastrioti Skanderbeg is proclaimed commander of the Albanian resistance.source
  • 1455After an agreement reached in Venice on August 30, the Italic League (Lega Italica) comes into being as a 25-year truce and mutual defense agreement between the Republic of Venice, the Papal States, the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Florence, and the Kingdom of Naples.source
  • 1476In retaliation for the massacre of the Swiss defenders of the Grandson Castle, troops from the Canton of Bern and the Old Swiss Confederacy defeat the Burgundian troops of Charles the Bold and force him to flee.source
  • 1476Charles the Bold suffers a defeat at the hands of Swiss forces at the Battle of Grandsonsource
  • 1498Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane and Mozambique, in southeastern Africa.source
  • 1508The Republic of Venice defeats Maximilian I in the Battle of Cadore.source
  • 1574Swedish troops attack Wesenberg Castle in Estonia and lose at least 1,000 men in attempting to capture it from the Russian Army.source
  • 1579Battle of Borgerhout in Brabant (now Belgium): Spanish troops under the command of the Duke of Parma overwhelm rebels fighting for the Union of Utrecht.source
  • 1612The False Dmitry III, one of three pretenders to the Russian throne who all claim to be sons of Ivan the Terrible, is recognized as Tsar of Russia by the Cossacks.source
  • 1624The English House of Commons passes a resolution making it illegal for a Member of Parliament (MP) to quit or willfully give up his seat. Afterward, MPs who wish to quit are appointed to an "office of profit", a legal fiction to allow a resignation.source
  • 1634Battle of Wattwiller: Forces of the Swedish Empire are victorious over those of the Holy Roman Empire and Duchy of Lorraine on the plain of Cernay in Alsace.source
  • 1646The future Charles II of England escapes from Cornwall into exile across the English Channel.source
  • 1657The Great Fire of Meireki in Edo, Japan, destroys most of the city and damages Edo Castle, killing an estimated 100,000 people.source
  • 1676first performance of George Etherege's play The Man of Mode.source
  • 1689Nine Years' War: As French forces leave, they set fire to Heidelberg Castle, and the nearby town of Heidelberg.source
  • 1689Nine Years' War: As French forces leave, they set fire to Heidelberg Castle and the nearby town of Heidelberg.source
  • 1699The Edinburgh Gazette is first published in Scotland.source
  • 1714(February 19 old style) The Battle of Storkyro is fought between troops of the Swedish Empire and the Russian Empire, near what is now the village of Napue in Finland. The outnumbered Swedish forces, under the command of General Carl Gustaf Armfeldt, suffer 1,600 troops killed in action while the Russians led by General Mikhail Golitsyn lose 400 men.source
  • 1717February 26–March 6 – What becomes the northeastern United States is paralyzed by a series of blizzards that bury the region.source
  • 1717Dancer John Weaver performs in the first ballet in Britain, shown at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, The Loves of Mars and Venus.source
  • 1717dancer John Weaver performs in the first ballet in Britain, shown at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, The Loves of Mars and Venus.source
  • 1725in London, a night watchman finds a severed head by the Thames; it is later recognized to be that of the husband of Catherine Hayes. She and an accomplice are executed the following year.source
  • 1726In London, a night watchman finds a severed head by the River Thames; it is later recognized to be that of the husband of Catherine Hayes. She and an accomplice are later executed.source
  • 1737Samuel Johnson and his former pupil David Garrick leave Lichfield to seek their fortunes in London.source
  • 1743A British expeditionary fleet under Sir Charles Knowles is defeated by the Spanish in the Battle of La Guaira.source
  • 1743Battle of La Guaira: Spanish victory over the British.source
  • 1743War of Jenkins' Ear: Battle of La Guaira – a British expeditionary fleet under Sir Charles Knowles is defeated by the Spanish off the South-American coast.source
  • 1754riot at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. Thomas Sheridan, the manager, resigns, and leaves Ireland on 15 September.source
  • 1768Rowland Pugh, a local miner, discovers the "Great Lode" of copper on Parys Mountain and is rewarded with a bottle of whisky and a rent-free house for his lifetime.source
  • 1783Francisco Salzillo, sculptor (born 1707)source
  • 1784Governor George Clinton of New York writes to Congress asking them to declare war against Vermont, which at this time is an unrecognized de facto independent state claimed by New York. Congress declined to do this.source
  • 1791The abolition of guilds is enacted.source
  • 1791A mechanical semaphore line for rapid long-distance communication is demonstrated by Claude Chappe in Paris.source
  • 1791Claude Chappe and his brothers first demonstrate the optical telegraph.source
  • 1793March 1–3 – John Langdon serves as President pro tempore of the United States Senate.source
  • 1801The El Plumier, Captain William Reid arrives at Hauraki (the Waihou River between the Hauraki Plains and Coromandel Peninsula) to collect timber. There are women and children on board. In attempting to travel up the Waihou the ship runs aground causing some damage. The crew meet Thomas Taylor, who acts as interpreter for the local Māori who help in unsuccessful attempts to refloat the ship and also provide the crew with food.source
  • 1807The United States Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves "into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States ... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country" (to take effect January 1, 1808).source
  • 1807The U.S. Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States....from any foreign kingdom, place, or country" (to take effect January 1, 1808).source
  • 1808A minor naval battle which takes place off the coast of Scarborough results in the capture of the Danish brig Admiral Yawl, commanded by Danish adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen.source
  • 1808Russian troops occupy Helsinki and threaten Sveaborg.source
  • 1808Action of 2, a naval battle between the British 18-gun Brig-sloop HMS Sappho, and the Danish 28-gun Danish brig of war Admiral Yawlsource
  • 1808The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh (preliminary meeting January 12).source
  • 1808inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society is held in Edinburgh under the presidency of Prof. Robert Jameson.source
  • 1808Inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a Scottish learned society, held in Edinburgh.source
  • 1815March 2–18 – Sri Vikrama Rajasinha of Kandy, the last king in Ceylon, is deposed under the terms of the Kandyan Convention, which results in Ceylon becoming a British colony.source
  • 1815The Kandyan Convention, an agreement between the Kandyan chiefs and the British, is signed, deposing King Sri Vikrama Rajasinha and ceding the kingdom's territory to the British.source
  • 1820Kendall, Hongi Hika, and Hongi's nephew Waikato from Rangihoua, sail for England in the whaler New Zealander 1808 ship. Kendall confers with Professor Samuel Lee at Cambridge on the publication of Grammar and Vocabulary of the New Zealand Language. The book is published at the end of the year. The well known painting of Kendall with the two chiefs is painted by James Barry. Hongi's main purpose in this trip is to obtain muskets, at which he is eventually successful.source
  • 1822The start of the Siege of Salvador, where the newly formed Brazilian army would attempt to capture the city of Salvador in Bahia from its Portuguese defenders.source
  • 1829Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, conspirator and supporter of the Mexican War of Independence.source
  • 1835Ferdinand becomes Emperor of Austria.source
  • 1836Texas Revolution – Convention of 1836: The Texas Declaration of Independence is signed by 60 delegates, and the Republic of Texas is declared.source
  • 1836At the Convention of 1836, the Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico.source
  • 1838Clydesdale Bank founded in Glasgow.source
  • 1842Gaylad, ridden by Tom Olliver, wins the Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in England.source
  • 1846February 20–March 3 – Kraków uprising: Polish nationalists stage an uprising in the Free City of Kraków; it is suppressed by forces of the Austrian Empire, supported by peasants.source
  • 1848The March Unrest breaks out in Sweden.source
  • 1852The first American experimental steam fire engine is tested.source
  • 1855Alexander II ascends the Russian throne, upon the death of his father Nicholas I.source
  • 1859March 2–3 – The Great Slave Auction, the largest single sale of slaves in U.S. history, with more than 400 people sold, takes place near Savannah, Georgia.source
  • 1869After several days hiding in bushland near Bunbury, Western Australia, Irish political prisoner John Boyle O'Reilly escapes to America on the whaler Gazelle.source
  • 1876United States Secretary of War William W. Belknap resigns his office in the wake of the trader post scandal.source
  • 1877Compromise of 1877: The 1876 United States presidential election is resolved with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner, even though Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.source
  • 1877The Helga de la Brache affair is completed by a conviction of the de la Brache after her exposure.source
  • 1879murder of Julia Martha Thomas at Richmond upon Thames.source
  • 1879Castle in Tervuren burns down.source
  • 1882Roderick Maclean fails in an attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria, at Windsor.source
  • 1882Roderick Maclean fails in an attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria at Windsor, Berkshire.source
  • 1882Roderick Maclean fails in an attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria outside Windsor railway station, the last attempt on her life.source
  • 1883The Hong Kong Observatory is established.source
  • 1889The United States Congress proclaims the entire Bering Sea to be under US control.source
  • 1894William Gladstone resigns as British Prime Minister.source
  • 1899Mount Rainier National Park is established in the U.S. state of Washington.source
  • 1901The United States Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.source
  • 1903In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel, the first hotel exclusively for women, opens.source
  • 1905Russia's Committee of Ministers votes to grant religious freedom to the subjects of the Russian Empire.source
  • 1915Armenian genocide: Earliest recorded deportations.source
  • 1917The enactment of the Jones Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.source
  • 1919The Founding Congress of the Comintern opens in Moscow.source
  • 1922An ice mass breaks the Oder Dam in Breslau.source
  • 1922The British Civil Aviation Authority is established.source
  • 1925In an appeal originating in a Prohibition era bootlegging case, Carroll v. United States is decided in the Supreme Court, affirming the motor vehicle exception, that a warrantless search of an automobile does not contravene the Fourth Amendment, subject to probable cause and exigent circumstances.source
  • 1929The longest bridge in the world at this time, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge, opens.source
  • 1930André Tardieu begins his second term as Prime Minister of France.source
  • 1930Mahatma Gandhi informs the British Viceroy of India that civil disobedience will begin the following week.source
  • 1932The Mäntsälä rebellion ends in failure; Finnish democracy prevails. The Lapua Movement is condemned by conservative Finnish president Pehr Evind Svinhufvud in a radio speech.source
  • 1933The completion of Ōgon Shrine in Taihoku Prefecture.source
  • 19331933 Sanriku earthquake. Although the earthquake itself does little damage, the associated tsunami, recorded at a height of 28.7 m at Ōfunato, Iwate, caused extensive damage, destroys many homes and causes numerous casualties.source
  • 1933King Kong: The original King Kong film, starring Fay Wray and directed by Merian C. Cooper, debuts in New York City.source
  • 1935King Prajadhipok (Rama VII) of Siam abdicates the throne; he is succeeded by his 9-year-old-nephew Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII).source
  • 1936March 2–8. Strike action at Polish-Swiss Chocolate Factory Philippe Suchard in Kraków,source
  • 1939Pope Pius XII (Cardinal Pacelli) succeeds Pope Pius XI to become the 260th pope, holding office until 1958.source
  • 1939The first broadcast of the underground radio station of the Irgun "Kol Tsion HaLokhemet".source
  • 1943WWII: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships, then strafe survivors in the water.source
  • 1944Balvano train disastersource
  • 1944The 16th Academy Awards Ceremony is held, the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue, Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz, wins the Award for Best Picture.source
  • 1945Former U.S. vice-president Henry A. Wallace starts his term of office as United States Secretary of Commerce, serving under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.source
  • 1945The rocket-propelled Bachem Ba 349 Natter is first test launched at Stetten am kalten Markt. The launch fails and the pilot, Lothar Sieber, dies.source
  • 1948C.D. Sonsonate, a Salvadoran football club, was established.source
  • 1949The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II (under Captain James Gallagher) lands in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight (it was refueled in flight 4 times).source
  • 1949A cyclone crosses the Central Queensland coast impacting Gladstone and Rockhampton.source
  • 1955Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old African-American girl, refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white woman after the driver demands it. She is carried off the bus backwards, while being kicked, handcuffed and harassed on the way to the police station. She becomes a plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle (1956), which rules bus segregation to be unconstitutional.source
  • 1955Samet Aybaba, former football player and currently coachsource
  • 1956Morocco declares its independence from France.source
  • 1958A British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition team, led by Sir Vivian Fuchs, completes the first overland crossing of the Antarctic, using snowcat caterpillar tractors and dogsled teams, in 99 days, via the South Pole.source
  • 1960According to South Korea Fire Service official confirmed report, a fire and explosion in Kukje Rubber and Manufacturing plant in Busan, 68 persons were fatalities.source
  • 1962A military coup in Burma brings General Ne Win to power.source
  • 1962Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in a single NBA basketball game.source
  • 1963The Sino-Pakistan Agreement is signed, resolving border disputes between the two countries in Kashmir.source
  • 1964a power cut of 9 hours and 36 minutes affects the northern part of the country, between the cities of Iquique and Copiapó.source
  • 1965Luxembourg City is agreed to remain one of the seats of the European Union as part of the negotiations over the Merger Treaty.source
  • 1965Vietnam War: Operation Rolling Thunder – The United States Air Force 2nd Air Division, United States Navy and South Vietnamese air force begin a 31/2-year aerial bombardment campaign against North Vietnam.source
  • 1965Lucien Rivard escapes from a Montreal area jailsource
  • 1968Fuji-Q Highland officially open in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture.source
  • 1968Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country of England.source
  • 1969Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.source
  • 1970Keith Spicer is appointed as the first Official Languages Commissionersource
  • 1971All-Pakistan Awami League leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman launched the non-cooperation movement in East Pakistan.source
  • 1971First hoisting of the National flag of Bangladesh (1971) at the Dhaka University by Vice President of Dhaka University Students' Union (DUCSU) leader, A. S. M. Abdur Rab.source
  • 1971Start of the non-cooperation movement in East Pakistan.source
  • 1972The Club of Rome presents the research results leading to its report The Limits to Growth, published later in the month.source
  • 1972The Pioneer 10 spacecraft is launched from Cape Kennedy, to be the first man-made spacecraft to leave the Solar System.source
  • 1977Following the Libyan Revolution of 1969 against King Idris of Libya on 1 September 1969, Muammar Gaddafi published The Green Book in 1975 to outline his Third Universal Theory.source
  • 1978Soyuz 28 (Aleksei Gubarev, Vladimír Remek) is launched on a rendezvous with Salyut 6, with the first cosmonaut from a country other than the US or USSR (Czechoslovak Vladimír Remek).source
  • 1981The establishment of Construction and Planning Agency in Taipei.source
  • 19812 March 1981 – Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326 is hijacked by armed men belonging to Al-Zulfiqar. At the time, it was the longest hijacking in history.source
  • 1982Decentralisation in France: the Law of Decentralisation creates the administrative regions of France (régions).source
  • 1983Free trade zones created in Aliağa, Antalya and Yumurtalık.source
  • 1987TV Patrol was launched as its first flagship evening newscast replacing the former flagship national news program Balita Ngayon.source
  • 1987The province of Drenthe is struck by an extreme amount of glazed frost. Objects were covered are covered by a 1 centimeter thick layer of ice. Trees and high voltage pylons snap. This event is known as the IJzelramp of 1987.source
  • 1991SES launches its second satellite, Astra 1B.source
  • 1992Kazakhstan becomes a member of the United Nations.source
  • 1992In Dubăsari, Moldova, escalating tensions turn into open hostilities and the beginning of the Transnistria War.source
  • 1994March 2 – 18 – Charles L. Abernethy visits the country to write a report for the International Irrigation Management Institute.source
  • 19961996 Australian federal election: The Liberal/National Coalition led by John Howard defeats the Labor government led by Prime Minister Paul Keating. Howard was sworn in on March 11.source
  • 1998Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.source
  • 2000Imbarek Shamekh is appointed Secretary of the General People's Committee.source
  • 2000February 23–March 7 – Mayon volcano in Albay erupts, with the most violent occurred, February 28 – March 1; its status is raised to the highest, Alert Level 5, on February 24 due to its hazardous explosions with pyroclastic and lahar flows that affected parts of the province, with several thousands evacuated even outside identified danger zones.source
  • 2001The Finnish Medical Association began a doctors' strike that lasted until August 18th.source
  • 2001Despite pleas from the international community to spare them, the Taliban government of Afghanistan begins destroying the Buddhas of Bamiyan, having declared that they are idols.source
  • 2002March 2–10 – Afghan and coalition troops carry out Operation Anaconda in the Shah-i-Kot Valley, the largest combat operation against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban to that point.source
  • 2004A series of bombings occur in Karbala, Iraq, killing over 140 Shia Muslims commemorating the Day of Ashura.source
  • 2004The European Space Agency launches the Rosetta space probe.source
  • 2020The Yahoo! Time capsule, dating from 2006, is opened.source
  • 2021A boat with partially decomposed bodies of six migrants, one with a passport from Guinea, is found Cayo Las Palomas.source
  • 2022The International Criminal Court begins an investigation into possible war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine.source
  • 2022Paraguay voted on a United Nations resolution condemning Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.source
  • 2022The United Nations reports that over a million refugees have now fled from Ukraine to other countries.source
  • 2025Firefly Aerospace becomes the first commercial company to successfully land on the Moon with no technical issues, with its Blue Ghost Mission 1.source

Births

  • 1316Robert II, king of Scotland (House of Stuart) (died 1390)source
  • 1316Robert II of Scotland, future king of Scotland (died 1390)source
  • 1409John II, Duke of Alençon, son of John I of Alençon and Marie of Brittany (died 1476)source
  • 1409Jean II, Duke of Alençon, nobleman (died 1476)source
  • 1432Countess Palatine Margaret of Mosbach, Countess consort of Hanau (died 1457)source
  • 1453Johannes Engel, German doctor, astronomer and astrologersource
  • 1459Pope Adrian VI, Dutch-born churchman (died 1523)source
  • 1481Franz von Sickingen, German knight (died 1523)source
  • 1545Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and scholar, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford (died 1613)source
  • 1577George Sandys, English traveller (died 1644)source
  • 1603Pietro Novelli, Italian painter (died 1647)source
  • 1701Lewis Morris, hydrographer, antiquary, poet and lexicographer, eldest of the four famous Morris brothers of Anglesey (died 1765)source
  • 1705William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (died 1793)source
  • 1705William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, judge and politician (died 1793)source
  • 1769DeWitt Clinton, American politician and naturalist, 6th Governor of New York (died 1828)source
  • 1770Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Marshal of France (died 1826)source
  • 1793Sam Houston, American President of the Republic of Texas (died 1863)source
  • 1810Pope Leo XIII (born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci) (died 1903)source
  • 1824Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (died 1884)source
  • 1829Carl Schurz, German revolutionary, American statesman (died 1906)source
  • 1829Carl Schurz, German revolutionary, American statesman (died 1906)source
  • 1904Dr. Seuss, American children's author (The Cat in the Hat) (died 1991)source
  • 1931Mikhail Gorbachev, the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 2022)source
  • 1948Rory Gallagher, Irish musician (died 1995)source
  • 1963Anthony Albanese, 31st Prime Minister of Australiasource
  • 2016Prince Oscar, Duke of Skånesource

Deaths

  • 274Mani, a sage of Persia, dies at Gundeshapur after 30 years of preaching his "heresy" at the court of the late Sassanian King Shapur I and on long journeys to Khorasan, India and China. He is executed or allowed to die in prison, and claims to be a prophet of God. Mani combines Zoroastrian dualism with Christian theology, and his disciples gain wide support for Manichaeism, despite opposition from Roman Emperors.source
  • 274Mani, prophet and founder of Manichaeism (born 216)source
  • 672Chad of Mercia, Anglo-Saxon abbotsource
  • 968William, archbishop of Mainz (born 929)source
  • 986King Lothair III (or Lothair IV) dies after a 32-year reign at Laon. He is succeeded by his 19-year-old son Louis V as ruler of the West Frankish Kingdom.source
  • 986Lothair III, king of the West Frankish Kingdom (born 941)source
  • 1009Mokjong, king of Goryeo (Korea) (born 980)source
  • 1121Floris II ("the Fat"), count of Holland (born 1085)source
  • 1121Petronilla of Lorraine becomes regent of Holland (Low Countries) after her husband, Floris II ("the Fat") dies. He is succeeded by his 6-year-old son Dirk VI (Theodoric).source
  • 1127Charles the Good, count of Flanders (born 1084)source
  • 1127Charles the Good, count of Flanders, is murdered by a band of knights while praying in church; he leaves no children. King Louis VI of France appoints William Clito (son of Robert Curthose) as new ruler. But the Flemish towns of Bruges, Ghent, Saint-Omer and Ypres recognize (with English financial support) Thierry of Alsace as rival count.source
  • 1282Agnes of Bohemia, Bohemian princess (born 1211)source
  • 1316Marjorie Bruce, Scottish noblewoman and princesssource
  • 1316Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I (1296/7–1316)source
  • 1333King Wladyslaw I of Poland (born 1261)source
  • 1341March 2 or October 3 – Martha of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (born 1277)source
  • 1539Askia Isma'il, ruler of the Songhai Empire in West Africa, dies after a reign of slightly less than two years and is succeeded by Askia Ishaq I.source
  • 1543John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, English politician (born 1493)source
  • 1563Ercole Gonzaga, Spanish Catholic cardinal (born 1505)source
  • 1573Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (born 1530)source
  • 1589Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (born 1530)source
  • 1619Anne of Denmark, Queen of James I of England (born 1574)source
  • 1712Lorenzo Magalotti, Italian philosopher (born 1637)source
  • 1755Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (born 1675)source
  • 1791John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (born 1703)source
  • 1797Horace Walpole, English politician and writer (born 1717)source
  • 1835Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1768)source
  • 1855Emperor Nicholas I of Russia (born 1796)source
  • 1894Jubal Early, American Confederate general (born 1816)source
  • 1895Berthe Morisot, French painter (born 1841)source
  • 1903Rafael Zaldívar, politician (born 1834)source
  • 1916Queen Elisabeth of Romania, also known as Elisabeth of Wied and under her literary pseudonym, Carmen Sylva.source
  • 1930D. H. Lawrence, British writer (born 1885)source
  • 1943March 1–2 – WWII: Koriukivka massacre – 6,700 inhabitants of Koriukivka are murdered in Ukraine, by a German SS unit.source
  • 1975Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, 45, politician.source
  • 1982Philip K. Dick, 53, American authorsource
  • 1986Mayor of Nablus Zafer al-Masri is assassinated by Palestinian extremists.source
  • 2008Venezuela and Ecuador move troops to the Colombian border, following a Colombian raid against FARC guerrillas inside Ecuadorian territory, in which senior commander Raúl Reyes is killed.source
  • 2009The President of Guinea-Bissau, João Bernardo Vieira, is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau.source