March

• Birth of Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French Composer

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

• Launch of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft

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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

• George Everest was elected a fellow of the Royal Society

• 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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• Lithuania declared itself independent from the Soviet Union

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• Gandhi commenced the Dandi March to protest against the British salt monopoly

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• Discovery of Pluto confirmed and announced to the world

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• The battle of Ivry

• Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin patented his design for a navigable balloon in the United States

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• Maine became the 23rd US state

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• The massacre of the Jews of York

• Abolishment of monarchy in England

• Death of Lawrence Oates, British explorer

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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

• Birth of Lawrence Oates, British explorer

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

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• Death of Edward the Martyr, king of England

• The Belgian government collapsed over a referendum on the return of King Leopold III

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• Death of Edgar Rice Burroughs, American novelist

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• Death of Henry IV, king of England

• Radio Caroline‘s ship, the MV Mi Amigo, sank during a storm

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• Accession of Henry V, king of England

• In South Africa, 69 unarmed black men, women and children were killed by police in the Sharpeville Massacre

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• Birth of Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist

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• Death of Nicolas Fouquet, French minister

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

• The ninth planet in the solar system was named after Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld

• All public meetings were banned in 24 districts of South Africa following the Sharpeville Massacre three days earlier

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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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• Radio Caroline broadcast for the first time

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

• End of the Pioneer 10 science mission

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