Events & Holidays In March - 06

Alamo Day (United States of America)

Foundation Day (Norfolk Island)

Independence Day (Ghana)

World Day of Prayer (Australia)

1340  On this day in history birth of john of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)  

1405  On this day in history birth of johan II, King of Castille  

1405  On this day in history birth of king John II of Castile (d. 1454)  

1459  Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant was born on this day in history.  

1475  On this day in history birth of michelangelo, Italian painter (David) (d. 1564)  

1483  On this day in history birth of francesco Guicciardini, Ital attorney/president of Romagna  

1492  On this day in history birth of jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer  

1495  On this day in history birth of luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione)  

0766  Chrodegang, church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50 on this day in history.  

1252  On this day in history death of saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)  

1490  Death of Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458) on this day in history.  

1531  Death of Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador on this day in history.  

1583  Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger), dies at 48 on this day in history.  

1615  Pieter Both, Dutch admiral/1st gov-gen (East Indies, 1609-14), drowns on this day in history.  

1616  On this day in history francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)  

1627  On this day in history death of krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)