Mar 20 King Charles I of England first tries to escape captivity at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight by climbing out a window - but gets stuck [1]
Famous Deaths
Mar 12 Tirso de Molina, Spanish Baroque dramatist, poet and Roman Catholic monk (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest), dies at about 63
Mar 14 Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general, dies at 63