March

• Birth of Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French Composer

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• Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia, declared his country a republic

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• Birth of James Doohan, Canadian Actor

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• Accession of Edward IV, king of England

• The Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII, opened the Forth Rail Bridge

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• Birth of Henry II, king of England

• Birth of David II, king of Scots

• Five American colonists were killed by British soldiers at The Boston Massacre

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• Death of Emma of Normandy, queen consort of Æthelred II and Cnut, kings of England

• Death of Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer

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• Death of Cuthbert Collingwood, British admiral

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• Death of William III (II), king of England and Scots
• Accession of Anne, queen of England and Scots / Great Britain

• Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to be issued with a pilot’s licence

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• Birth of Samuel Barber, American Composer

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• Birth of Samuel Ferguson, Irish Poet

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• Abolishment of monarchy in England

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• Death of Harold I, king of England

• Death of Lulach, king of Scots
• Accession of Malcolm III, king of Scots

• Birth of James IV, king of Scots

• Birth of Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer

• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, fled into exile from Lhasa, Tibet

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• Death of Edward the Martyr, king of England

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• Death of Henry IV, king of England

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• Accession of Henry V, king of England

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• Death of Elizabeth I, queen of England
• Accession of James I (VI) as king of England

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• Coronation of Robert I, king of Scots

• Coronation of James II, king of Scots

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• Coronation of Robert II, king of Scots

• Death of James I (VI), king of England and Scots
• Accession of Charles I, king of England and Scots

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• Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, arrived in India after fleeing Tibet

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