44 BC – Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
313 – Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
1381 – Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
1489 – The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
1592 – Ultimate Pi Day: the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi since the introduction of the Julian calendar.
1639 – New College was renamed Harvard College for clergyman John Harvard.
1647 – Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1743 – Boston’s Faneuil Hall is home to the first town meeting in America.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
1782 – Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that sparked the massive growth of cotton production in the United States.
1885 – The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.
1900 – Congress ratifies the Gold Standard Act, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
1903 – The Hay–Herrán Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
1903 – The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.
1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
1923 – President Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to file a full-year income tax return. He paid $17,000 on his 1922 presidential salary of $75,000.
1925 – The Tennessee General Assembly approves a bill prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. Gov. Austin Peay signs the measure March 21.
1926 – El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. 248 are killed and 93 wounded.
1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
1933: U.S. banks reopen after a “holiday” declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1936 – The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall. (There had been a part-talkie, part-silent version of Show Boat in 1929.)
1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
1943 – World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated".
1945 – World War II: The R.A.F.'s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
1950 – The FBI released for the first time its Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The year before in 1949, a news story was released about the criminals the FBI considered to be the most dangerous and in need of capture. It was immensely popular, and J. Edgar Hoover decided that a permanent “most wanted list” would be given to the public.
1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
1972 – Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
1978 – The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
1979 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
1980 – In Poland, LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
1988 – Johnson South Reef Skirmish: Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in Johnson South Reef, disputed Spratly Islands.
1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
2006 – Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'état.
2007 – The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.
2007 – The first World Maths Day was celebrated
2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
Kostroma (1239, 1613)
1936 – The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall. (There had been a part-talkie, part-silent version of Show Boat in 1929.)
1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
1943 – World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated".
1945 – World War II: The R.A.F.'s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
1950 – The FBI released for the first time its Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The year before in 1949, a news story was released about the criminals the FBI considered to be the most dangerous and in need of capture. It was immensely popular, and J. Edgar Hoover decided that a permanent “most wanted list” would be given to the public.
1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
1972 – Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
1978 – The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
1979 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
1980 – In Poland, LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
1988 – Johnson South Reef Skirmish: Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in Johnson South Reef, disputed Spratly Islands.
1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
2006 – Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'état.
2007 – The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.
2007 – The first World Maths Day was celebrated
2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Leobinus
Matilda
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
March 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Basil and Euphrasius, together with other Christians, in Thessaloniki.
Martyr Florentius, in Thessaloniki, by fire.
Martyr Alexander, in Thessaloniki (c. 285-305).
Martyr Eustathius and his company, at Carrhae, Mesopotamia (741).
Venerable Euschemon the Confessor, Bishop of Lampsacus (9th c.)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Holy 47 Martyrs of Rome, baptised by the Apostle Peter, and suffered
in Rome under Nero, all on the same day (c. 67)
Hieromartyr Leo, Bishop and Martyr, perhaps under the Arians,
in the Agro Verano in Italy
Martyrs Peter and Aphrodisius, who obtained the crown of martyrdom
in the persecution of the Vandals (5th c.)
Monk-Martyrs of Valeria, in the province of Valeria, Italy,
slain by the Lombards (5th c.)
Venerable Benedict of Nursia, Abbot (543)
Saint Diaconus, a deacon in the Marsi in central Italy, martyred
together with two monks by the Lombards (6th c.)
Saint Boniface Curetán, a Scoto-Pictish Bishop of Ross (c. 630 or 660)
Saint Talmach, a disciple of St Barr at Lough Erc in Ireland, and founder
of a monastery (7th c.)
Saint Matilda (Mathildis, Maud), wife of German king Henry the Fowler,
who founded, among others, the monasteries of Nordhausen, Pöhlde,
Engern and Quedlinburg in Germany (968)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Rostislav-Michael, Great Prince of Kiev (1167)
Saint Theognostus of Kiev, the Greek Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' (1353)
Venerable Andreas (Andrew) of Russia (1820)
Repose of Blessed John, Fool-for-Christ of Yurievets (1893)
Other commemorations
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of St. Theodore ("Feodorovskaya"),Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Leobinus
Matilda
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
March 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Basil and Euphrasius, together with other Christians, in Thessaloniki.
Martyr Florentius, in Thessaloniki, by fire.
Martyr Alexander, in Thessaloniki (c. 285-305).
Martyr Eustathius and his company, at Carrhae, Mesopotamia (741).
Venerable Euschemon the Confessor, Bishop of Lampsacus (9th c.)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Holy 47 Martyrs of Rome, baptised by the Apostle Peter, and suffered
in Rome under Nero, all on the same day (c. 67)
Hieromartyr Leo, Bishop and Martyr, perhaps under the Arians,
in the Agro Verano in Italy
Martyrs Peter and Aphrodisius, who obtained the crown of martyrdom
in the persecution of the Vandals (5th c.)
Monk-Martyrs of Valeria, in the province of Valeria, Italy,
slain by the Lombards (5th c.)
Venerable Benedict of Nursia, Abbot (543)
Saint Diaconus, a deacon in the Marsi in central Italy, martyred
together with two monks by the Lombards (6th c.)
Saint Boniface Curetán, a Scoto-Pictish Bishop of Ross (c. 630 or 660)
Saint Talmach, a disciple of St Barr at Lough Erc in Ireland, and founder
of a monastery (7th c.)
Saint Matilda (Mathildis, Maud), wife of German king Henry the Fowler,
who founded, among others, the monasteries of Nordhausen, Pöhlde,
Engern and Quedlinburg in Germany (968)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Rostislav-Michael, Great Prince of Kiev (1167)
Saint Theognostus of Kiev, the Greek Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus' (1353)
Venerable Andreas (Andrew) of Russia (1820)
Repose of Blessed John, Fool-for-Christ of Yurievets (1893)
Other commemorations
Kostroma (1239, 1613)
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