Day Month

March-17

180 - Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius aka.Marcus Verus dies of the plague a.58 and his son Commodus becomes emperor.
432 - St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave.
455 - Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor.
461 - legend St Patrick, patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul.
659 - Gertrudis van Nijvel, saint/patron of travellers, dies at about 32.
1040 - England ?+ Harold Harefoot dies.
1040 - Harold, British King (1035-40), dies.
1190 - Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England.
1473 - James IV, king of Scotland (1488-1513), is born.
1516 - Giuliano de' Medici, monarch of Florence, dies at 37.
1521 - Magelhaes lands on Homohon.
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines.
1526 - French king Fran‡ois I freed from Spain.
1537 - French troops invade Flanders.
1565 - Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], theologist/physician, dies at 64.
1578 - Francesco Albana, Ital painter (Mary's Ascension), is born.
1580 - Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam.
1581 - Johannes Marbach dies. Marbach championed Lutheranism in Strabourg and took an active role in the development of the Formula of Concord.
1588 - Petrus Dathenus, Flemish minister/physician (Psalms of David), dies.
1605 - Pieter Bast, [Bastius], Dutch engraver/cartographer, dies at about 34.
1628 - Daniel van Papenbroeck, [Papebrochius], Flemish historian, is born.
1640 - Philip Massinger, dramatist, dies.
1649 - Gerardus Johannis Vossius, [Gerrit Vos], Dutch regent, dies at 71.
1653 - Johan van Galen, admiral (battle of Livorno), dies in battle at 48.
1658 - Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered.
1664 - Georg Osterreich, composer, is born.
1672 - England declares war on Netherlands.
1675 - Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer, is born.
1680 - Fran‡ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, writer, dies.
1685 - Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter, is born.
1704 - Menno baron van Coehoorn, fort builder/Coevorden/howitzer, dies at 63.
1722 - Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente.
1746 - Jan David Holland, composer, is born.
1753 - 1st official St Patrick's Day.
1755 - Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief.
1756 - St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown & Thistle Tavern.
1757 - Prince Mas Sa‹d of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java.
1762 - 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC.
1764 - George Parker, English astronomer, dies.
1766 - Britain repeals Stamp Act.
1776 - British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War.
1777 - Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert Md, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott dec), is born.
1780 - Thomas Chalmers, 1st moderator (Free Church of Scotland 1843-47), is born.
1781 - Dominique J de Eerens, governor-general of Neth Indies, is born.
1787 - George Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law), is born.
1789 - Edmund Kean, London England, tragic actor (Shylock), is born.
1796 - Pieter Paulus, lawyer/Dutch CEO (National Convention), dies at 41.