222 – Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber.
1387 – Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.
1387 – Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.
1641 – Guaraní forces living in the Jesuit reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororé in present-day Panambí, Argentina.
1649 – The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil.
1702 – The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1779 – Congress established the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with the purpose of building structural and environmental facilities for the Army.
1784 – The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
1811 – During André Masséna's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Masséna time to escape.
1824 – The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1845 – Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1851 – The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1864 – The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
1867 – The first performance of Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.
1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
1879 – Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom
1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
1916 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is commissioned as the first US Navy "super-dreadnought".
1917 – World War I: Mesopotamian Campaign — Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1927 – In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
1931 – Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
1932 – Booming Ben, the last heath hen was seen for the final time.
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1933 – Ground breaking musical film 42nd Street is released.
1941 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur flees Corregidor.
1945 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
1945 – World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived Japanese puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler.
1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
1975 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla forces establish control over Ban Me Thuot commune from the South Vietnamese army.
1977 – The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
1978 – Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Al Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
1983 – Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
1990 – Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1990 – Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
1993 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
1999 – Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2004 – Madrid train bombings: Ten bombs explode in quick succession across the commuter rail network in Madrid, Spain, killing 191 people and wounding more than 2,000 in an attack linked to al-Qaida-inspired militants.
2006 – Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
2007 – Georgia claims Russian helicopters attacked the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later.
2009 – Winnenden school shooting: Sixteen are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.
2010 – Economist and businessman Sebastián Piñera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro province, hit central Chile during the ceremony.
2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing nearly 20,000 people and severely damaging the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station, which triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
2014 – Russia annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Getting 2014 Crimean crisis and 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine.
2014 – The superhero movie "The Black Panther" becomes the fifth Marvel movie to earn $1 billion worldwide.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
John of God, Confessor. Double.
Contemporary Western
Óengus of Tallaght (Aengus the Culdee)
Alberta of Agen
Áurea of San Millán
Constantine
Eulogius of Córdoba
Blessed John Righi
Sophronius of Jerusalem
Vindicianus
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
March 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Hieromartyr Pionius, Priest of Smyrna, and those with him (250):
Asclepiades, Macedonia, Linus (Limnus), and Sabina
Hieromartyrs Trophimus and Thalus, Priests, of Laodicea (300)
The Holy Syrian Martyrs (4th c.)
Venerable John Moschos, the ascetic writer of ‘The Spiritual Meadow’ (622)
Saint Sophronius of Jerusalem, Patriarch of Jerusalem (638)
Venerable George, Abbot of Sinai (7th century), brother of St. John Climacus
Saint George the New, Wonderworker of Constantinople (c. 970)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Candidus, Piperion and Companions, 22 martyrs who suffered in North
Africa (in Carthage or in Alexandria), under Valerian and Gallienus (c. 254-259)
Martyrs Heraclius and Zosimus, who suffered in Carthage in North Africa under
Valerian and Gallienus (263)
Martyr Alberta, one of the first victims of the persecution under Diocletian,
she suffered in Agen in France with St Faith and others (c. 286)
Martyr Constantine, a confessor in Carthage in North Africa
Hieromartyr Constantine of Cornwall and Govan, in Kintyre, Scotland (576)
Saint Constantine of Strathclyde, King, Monk, Confessor (640)
Saint Vigilius, Successor of St Palladius (661) as Bishop of Auxerre in France,
murdered in a forest near Compiègne by order of the mayor of the palace (685)
Saint Vindician, a disciple of St Eligius, became Bishop of Arras-Cambrai in France
and bravely protested against the excesses of the Merovingian Kings (712)
Saint Benedict Crispus of Milan, Archbishop of Milan in Italy for 45 years (725)
Saint Óengus the Culdee (Óengus of Tallaght, Angus), Bishop, of Clonenagh,
Ireland (824)
Hieromartyr Eulogius of Córdoba, Metropolitan of Cordoba, who suffered martyrdom
for protecting St Leocritia, a young girl converted from Islam (859)
Saint Firmian (Fermanus, Firminus), Abbot of San Sabino Piceno near Fermo
in Italy (c. 1020)
Saint Peter the Spaniard, a pilgrim from Spain to Rome who settled as a hermit
in Babuco near Veroli, confessor, renowned for miracles.
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Theodora of Arta, Queen of Arta, wife of Despot Michael II of Epirus (c. 1275)
Saint Sophronius, recluse of the Kiev Caves (13th c.)
Saint Euthymius II of Novgorod, Archbishop of Novgorod, Wonderworker (1458)
Saint Sophronius of Vratsa, Bishop of Vratsa (Bulgaria) (1813)
Venerable Alexis of Goloseyevsky Skete, Kiev Caves (1917)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hiero-confessor Patrick (Petrov), hieromonk of Valaam Monastery (1933)
New Hieromartyr Basil Malahov, Priest (1937)
Other commemorations
Translation to Constantinople of the relics of Martyr Epimachus of Pelusium,Traditional Western
John of God, Confessor. Double.
Contemporary Western
Óengus of Tallaght (Aengus the Culdee)
Alberta of Agen
Áurea of San Millán
Constantine
Eulogius of Córdoba
Blessed John Righi
Sophronius of Jerusalem
Vindicianus
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
March 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Hieromartyr Pionius, Priest of Smyrna, and those with him (250):
Asclepiades, Macedonia, Linus (Limnus), and Sabina
Hieromartyrs Trophimus and Thalus, Priests, of Laodicea (300)
The Holy Syrian Martyrs (4th c.)
Venerable John Moschos, the ascetic writer of ‘The Spiritual Meadow’ (622)
Saint Sophronius of Jerusalem, Patriarch of Jerusalem (638)
Venerable George, Abbot of Sinai (7th century), brother of St. John Climacus
Saint George the New, Wonderworker of Constantinople (c. 970)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Candidus, Piperion and Companions, 22 martyrs who suffered in North
Africa (in Carthage or in Alexandria), under Valerian and Gallienus (c. 254-259)
Martyrs Heraclius and Zosimus, who suffered in Carthage in North Africa under
Valerian and Gallienus (263)
Martyr Alberta, one of the first victims of the persecution under Diocletian,
she suffered in Agen in France with St Faith and others (c. 286)
Martyr Constantine, a confessor in Carthage in North Africa
Hieromartyr Constantine of Cornwall and Govan, in Kintyre, Scotland (576)
Saint Constantine of Strathclyde, King, Monk, Confessor (640)
Saint Vigilius, Successor of St Palladius (661) as Bishop of Auxerre in France,
murdered in a forest near Compiègne by order of the mayor of the palace (685)
Saint Vindician, a disciple of St Eligius, became Bishop of Arras-Cambrai in France
and bravely protested against the excesses of the Merovingian Kings (712)
Saint Benedict Crispus of Milan, Archbishop of Milan in Italy for 45 years (725)
Saint Óengus the Culdee (Óengus of Tallaght, Angus), Bishop, of Clonenagh,
Ireland (824)
Hieromartyr Eulogius of Córdoba, Metropolitan of Cordoba, who suffered martyrdom
for protecting St Leocritia, a young girl converted from Islam (859)
Saint Firmian (Fermanus, Firminus), Abbot of San Sabino Piceno near Fermo
in Italy (c. 1020)
Saint Peter the Spaniard, a pilgrim from Spain to Rome who settled as a hermit
in Babuco near Veroli, confessor, renowned for miracles.
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Theodora of Arta, Queen of Arta, wife of Despot Michael II of Epirus (c. 1275)
Saint Sophronius, recluse of the Kiev Caves (13th c.)
Saint Euthymius II of Novgorod, Archbishop of Novgorod, Wonderworker (1458)
Saint Sophronius of Vratsa, Bishop of Vratsa (Bulgaria) (1813)
Venerable Alexis of Goloseyevsky Skete, Kiev Caves (1917)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hiero-confessor Patrick (Petrov), hieromonk of Valaam Monastery (1933)
New Hieromartyr Basil Malahov, Priest (1937)
Other commemorations
from Alexandria (250)
Slaying of Emperor Paul I of Russia (1801)
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