Historical Events
- Mar 12 Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 6 Cyrano de Bergerac, French playwright and novelist known for his large nose (Voyage to the Moon) and inspiration for Edmond Rostand’s play (d. 1655)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Thomas Campion, English physician, composer, poet (Poemata), dies at 53
- Mar 2 Anne of Denmark, daughter of Danish King Frederik II and Queen Consort of James I of England, dies at 44
- Mar 13 Richard Burbage, English Shakespearean actor and painter, dies at about 52
- Mar 20 Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1612-19), dies at 62
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