| 0 | | Feast of Saint Piran, Patron of Cornwall |
| 1259 | | Battle of Maes Maidog/Moydog: Earl of Warwick defeats Madog ap Llewellyn |
| 1279 | | Battle of Aizkraukle: The Lithuanians defeat the Livonian Knights |
| 1432 | | Treaty of Rennes: peace between France and Brittany |
| 1626 | | Treaty of Monzon/Monjon: France & Spain confirm the independence of the Grisons |
| 1766 | | France cedes Louisiana to Spain |
| 1770 | | The Boston Massacre |
| 1793 | | Austrians liberate Liege from the French |
| 1795 | | Treaty of Basel: France and Prussia conclude peace |
| 1811 | | Battle of Barossa/Chiclana: Anglo-Spanish forces attempting to break the siege of Cadiz are ambushed by French troops, but beat them off -- Learn More |
| 1821 | | Veteran James Monroe is inaugurated as the 5th president, having postponing the ceremony by one day to avoid the Sabbath |
| 1824 | | First Anglo-Burmese War begins |
| 1842 | | A Mexican expeditioon occupies San Antonio, retiring unmolested several days later |
| 1860 | | Parma, Tuscany, Modena, & the Romagna vote to join the Kingdom of Sardinia |
| 1863 | | Battle of Thompson's Station, TN |
| 1906 | | First Battle of Bud Dajo: U.S. troops inflict a devastating defeat on the Moros of Jolo, the Philippines |
| 1912 | | First wartime use of airships: Italian reconnaissance flight west of Tripoli |
| 1912 | | Spanish cruiser 'Principe de Asturias' sinks in the Med, c. 500 die |
| 1916 | | Fifth Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Mar 15) |
| 1933 | | Nazi Party wins a plurality in parliamentary election (43.9%) |
| 1936 | | Maiden flight of the prototype Supermarine Spitfire |
| 1942 | | Burma: British appoint Sir Harold Alexander C-in-C |
| 1942 | | Japanese First Air Fleet raids Tijilatjap. |
| 1942 | | Japanese troops occupy Batavia (Jakarta), Neth Indies |
| 1942 | | New Guinea: Japanese troops land at Salamaua. |
| 1942 | | World premiere of Shoshtakovich's "Leningrad Symphony," in Kuibishev -- Learn More |
| 1943 | | Anti-fascist demonstrations in Italy |
| 1943 | | RAF bombs Essen |
| 1943 | | Solomons: U.S. DDs shell Japanese at Vila and Munda |
| 1943 | | USS 'Grampus' (SS-207) is probably sunk in Blackett Strait, Solomon Islands |
| 1944 | | Admiralty Is: U.S. Navy ships bombard Manus |
| 1945 | | Allies bomb The Hague, Netherlands |
| 1945 | | US VII Corps captures Cologne |
| 1946 | | Winston Churchill makes his "Iron Curtain" speech, Fulton, Mo -- Learn More |
| 1960 | | Elvis is honorably discharged from the US Army -- Learn More |
| 2003 | | Palestinian suicide bombing of a bus in Haifa, 17 die |
| 1133 | | King Henry II of England, (1154-1189), not to mention Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy, etc., etc., husband to Eleanor of Aquitaine, father to Richard Lionheart & John Lackland, d. 1189 |
| 1324 | | King David II of Scots (1331-71) |
| 1326 | | King Ladislas I "the Great" of Hungary (1342-82) & Poland (1370-82) |
| 1340 | | Cansignorio della Scala, Condottiero, Lord of Verona (1359-1375) |
| 1512 | | Gerardus Mercator - Gheert Cremer, mapmaker, d. 1594 |
| 1574 | | William Oughtred, inventor of the slide rule, d. 1660 |
| 1585 | | Elector Johan Georg I of Saxony (1611-56) |
| 1705 | | Noël Jourda, conte di Vaux , Marshal of France, d. 1788 |
| 1770 | | Hans Ernst Karl, Graf von Zieten, Waterloo corps commander, Prussian Field Marshal, d. 1848 |
| 1825 | | John Dunovant, Brig Gen, C.S.A., KIA 1864 |
| 1853 | | Howard Pyle, illustrator ("The Pirates"), d. 1911 |
| 1898 | | Chou En-lai/Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (1949-1976), d. 1976 |
| 1898 | | Soong May-ling, Madam Chiang Kai-Shek, d. 2003 |
| 1908 | | Reginald "Rex" Harrison, RAF veteran, actor (Caesar in "Cleopatra," Julius II in "The Agony and the Ecstacy", etc.), d. 1990 |
| 1924 | | Christopher Hibbert, soldier with the Military Cross, historian - "Il Duce," "Garibaldi & His Enemies," d. 2008 |
| 1934 | | Sidney Shachnow, Lithuanian-born, Jewish Holocaust survivor, later Green Beret legend, sometime Commander, U.S. Army-Berlin, and Maj. Gen., US, d. 2018 |
| 1942 | | The US Navy Seabees |
| 1953 | | Valery Grigoriyevich Korzun, Russian cosmonaut |
| 1223 | | King Afonso II of Portugal (1212-1223), c. 37 |
| 1291 | | Sa'ad al-Dawla, c. 50, Jewish grand vizier of Persia (1289-1291), assassinated |
| 1588 | | Henry I, Prince of Condé, 26, Huguenot leader, |
| 1605 | | Pope Clement VIII - Ippolito Aldobrandini (1592-1605), at 69 |
| 1622 | | Duke Ranuccio I Farnese of Parma, Piancenza, and Castro (1592-1622), 52, famed for staging mass executions |
| 1625 | | King James VI of Scots (1567-1625) & I of England (1603-25), 58, who authorized the translation of the Bible |
| 1644 | | Ferrante Pallavicino, 29, Marquis of Scipione, Benedictine Canon, beheaded at Avignon, for satirizing the Barberini family. |
| 1649 | | Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham (40), James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (43), & Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland (c. 60), beheaded by the Puritans, the Old Palace Yard, London |
| 1770 | | Crispus Attucks (c. 47), James Caldwell, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, and Patrick Carr, shot by the Redcoats |
| 1778 | | Thomas Arne, composer ("Rule Britannia"), at 67 |
| 1895 | | Sir Henry Rawlinson, 84, soldier, politician, archaeologist, and scholar |
| 1903 | | George Francis Robert Henderson, 49, British soldier, scholar ("Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War") |
| 1953 | | Josef V Stalin, Soviet dictator (c. 1926-1953), mass murderer, in bed at 73 |
| 1953 | | Sergei Prokofiev, 61, composer ("Peter and the Wold"), sometime victim of Stalin |
| 1964 | | Gustavo Adolfo Salinas Camiña, 70, former head of the Mexican Air Force, the first airman to attack a ship (Apr 14, 1914) |
| 2010 | | Andree Virot [Peel], Anglo-French Resistance worker, who won the Legion of Honor for rescuing 102 Allied pilots, and survived Buchenwald, at 105 |
| 2013 | | Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, 58, airman, putchist, President/Strongman of Venezuela (1999-2013) |