Historical Events In March - 14
Thursday, 26 March 2026
0840 Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69. 

0968 Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen (c. 895). 

1272 Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies 

1298 Petrus Johannis Olivi, South France theologist, dies 

1489 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. 

1490 Charles I, Duke of Savoy, dies at 21. 

1558 Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor. 

1559 Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht and Woudrichem, Netherlands. 

1559 Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht and Woudrichem, Neth 

1559 Jacques d'Auchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed. 

1573 Claude II, of Lotharingen, duke of Aumale/murdered adm Coligny, dies. 

1590 Battle at Ivry French King Henri IV beats Catholic League 

1590 Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League. 

1590 Philip van Egmont, general/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at 30. 

1612 Philip Galle, Flemish engraver, dies at about 74 

1623 Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer 

1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony. 

1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island) 

1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm 

1647 Frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 63. 

1653 Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno 

1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer 

1682 Jacob I van Ruysdael, physician/landscape painter, dies at about 53. 

1689 Scotland dismisses Willem III and Mary Stuart as king and queen. 

1692 Peter Musschenbroek, Dutch physician/physicist (Leyden jar) 

1726 Josef Antonin Stepan, composer 

1727 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer. 

1734 Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne 

1743 inaugural American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall) 

1743 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall) 

1755 Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer 

1757 On-board the HMS Monarch, Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty 

1757 John Byng, English admiral (Minorca), executed at 52 

1760 Anton Filtz, composer, dies at 26 

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