Historical Events In March - 19
Sunday, 01 February 2026
1227 Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX. 

1263 Hugo of St-Cher/a S Caro, French cardinal, dies 

1279 A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China 

1286 Alexander III, King of Scots, killed accidentally at Kinghorn, Fife 

1452 Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Roman German Emperor 

1503 Benedetto Varchi, Ital humanist/historian (Storia Fiorentina) 

1524 Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas 

1540 Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic". 

1556 Lieven van der Maude, [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70. 

1563 Peace of Amboise; Rights for Huguenots 

1563 Peace of Amboise: Rights for Huguenots. 

1571 Spanish troops occupy Manila. 

1589 William Bradford, gov of Plymouth colony for 30 years (baptized) 

1593 Georges de la Tour, French painter. 

1601 Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter/sculptor (Cathedral Granada) 

1604 Johan IV, composer/king of Portugal (1640-56) 

1610 Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter 

1628 Massachusetts colony founded by Englishmen. 

1629 Aleksei M Romanov, 1st Romanov tsar of Russia 

1635 Pieter Christiaensz Bor, Dutch historian, dies. 

1638 Paul Moreelse, Dutch painter/master builder, dies at about 66. 

1644 200 members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide 

1644 Si Sang, last Ming-emperor of China, commits suicide. 

1673 Pedro Vaz Rego, composer. 

1682 Nationally Council accept independence of French church. 

1687 Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men 

1687 Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, Fren explorer (Louisiana), killed at 43. 

1702 James II's daughter Anne Stuart is recorded as becoming queen of England 

1702 Willem III Henry, [Dutch William], king of England/Scot, dies at 51 

1715 Charles-Joseph van Helmont, composer 

1717 John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist. 

1721 Tobias Smollett, Scottish writer, baptized. 

1721 Clement XI, [Giovanni F Albani], Italian Pope (1700-21), dies at 71 

1728 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter. 

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