| 0 | | Feast of St. Sarah the Black, Patron of the Romani |
| 1086 | | Abbott Desiderius of Monte Cassino becomes Pope - Bl Victor III (1086-1087) |
| 1153 | | Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland (1153-1165) |
| 1370 | | Peace treaty between the Hanseatic League and Denmark |
| 1487 | | The Pseudo-Edward V (Lambert Simnel) crowned King of England, in Ireland |
| 1568 | | Battle of Groningen: Dutch defeat the Spanish |
| 1658 | | Battle of the Dunes: Anglo-French troops defeat the Spanish near Dunkirk |
| 1689 | | Parliament guarantees freedom of religion, for Protestants |
| 1764 | | James Otis coined the phrase "No taxation without representation!" |
| 1818 | | Andrew Jackson illegally captures Pensacola from the Spanish, which is shortly returned |
| 1822 | | Battle of Pichincha: Bolivar secures independence of Peru -- Learn More |
| 1861 | | Alexandria, VA, occupied by Federal troops |
| 1861 | | Benjamin Butler declares fugitive slaves Frank Baker, Shepard Mallory, & James Townsend "contraband of war" |
| 1864 | | Gala reception welcoming the "14th Brooklyn" (84th New York Volunteers) home after three years of war |
| 1871 | | The Paris Commune begins a massacre of Catholic clergy |
| 1877 | | The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) meets Lillie Langtry |
| 1883 | | The Brooklyn Bridge opens |
| 1900 | | Britain annexes Orange Free State |
| 1916 | | Britain introduces conscription |
| 1916 | | Germans capture Ft. Douaumont, Verdun, from the French |
| 1930 | | Amy Johnson becomes the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia |
| 1939 | | The McCann Rescue Chamber saves 33 sailors from the sunken 'Squalus' (SS-192), the only time the device has ever been used |
| 1941 | | Battle of the Denmark Straits: the 'Bismarck' sinks HMS 'Hood', 1,416 killed - only 3 survivors |
| 1941 | | Italian troop transport 'Conte Rosso' is sunk by HM Submarine 'Upholder' in the Central Mediterranean, c. 1,200 die |
| 1944 | | Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albanian anti-fascist movement |
| 1944 | | US carrier aircraft raid Wake Island. |
| 1958 | | Cuban President/Dictator Fulgencio Batista opens an offensive against Fidel Castro's rebels |
| 1959 | | Pleasant Hills, Pa: first home with built-in bomb shelter exhibited |
| 1962 | | Scott Carpenter goes into earth orbit aboard 'Aurora 7' |
| 1980 | | Iran rejects a call by World Court to release US hostages |
| 1989 | | French WW II war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in a monastery in Nice |
| 15 | BC | Germanicus Caesar, overrated general, brother to Claudius, father of Caligula, grandfather of Nero, d. AD 19 -- |
| 1524 | | Ottoman Sultan Selim II "the Drunkard" or "the Blond" (1556-1574) |
| 1738 | | King George III (1760-1820) |
| 1743 | | Jean-Paul Marat, French radical, who would meet Charlotte Corday in his bathtub in 1793 |
| 1751 | | King Charles Emanuel II of Sardinia (1796-1802) |
| 1753 | | Oliver Cromwell, black American patriot, d. >1800 |
| 1803 | | Charles Bonaparte, son of Lucien, nephew of Napoleon, Prince of Canino & Musignano, d. 1854 |
| 1811 | | Charles Clark, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1877 |
| 1816 | | Emanuel Leutze, painter ("Washington Crossing the Delaware"), d. 1868 |
| 1816 | | Robert Seaman Granger, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1894 |
| 1819 | | Alexandrina Victoria, later Queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901), Empress of India (1876-1901) -- Learn More |
| 1854 | | Louis Battenburg/Mountbatten, the Marquis of Milford Haven, British admiral, d. 1921 |
| 1870 | | Jan Smuts, Boer soldier, British Field Marshal, twice PM of South Africa, d. 1950 |
| 1905 | | Mikhail Sholokov, novelist ("And Quiet Flows the Don"), d. 1984 |
| 1921 | | The British Legion, now the Royal British Legion, formed by Great War veterans |
| 1924 | | Jürgen Rohwer, sometime Kriegsmarine sailor, prolific naval historian (e.g., "The Critical Convoy Battles of March 1943," "Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939–1945"), d. 2015 |
| 1153 | | King St. David I of Scotland (1107-1153), at c. 68 |
| 1437 | | Bernardino della Carra, condottiero, who commanded 800 lances. |
| 1670 | | Grand Duke Ferdinando II de' Medici of Tuscany (1621-1670), at 59 |
| 1792 | | Adm. Sir George Brydges Rodney, Baron Rodney, KB, 74 -- Learn More |
| 1861 | | Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth, 11th NY, shot at 24 by irate Reb James W. Jackson after pulling down a Confederate flag, Alexandria, Va |
| 1861 | | James W. Jackson, 35-40, shot & bayoneted by irate Yank Francis E. Brownell after having shot Elmer Elsworth |
| 1879 | | William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, at 73 |
| 1896 | | Conte Federico Luigi Menabrea, soldier, engineer, inventor, premier of Italy (1867-1869), at 86 |
| 1941 | | Vice Adm. Lancelot Holland (53) and c. 1,400 others, in his flagship, HMS 'Hood' |
| 1950 | | Field Marshal Earl Wavell, Archibald Percival Wavell, 67 -- Learn More |
| 1986 | | Lt Cdr Stephen D Thorne, astronaut, plane crash, at 33 |
| 1993 | | Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (65), Archbishop of Guadalajara, and six others, murdered |
| 1995 | | Harold Wilson, Prime Minister (1964-70, 74-76), of cancer at 79 |
| 2004 | | Alberta Martin, 97, Civil War veteran's widow |