Historical Events
- Mar 11 The Frondeurs (French rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil.
Famous Birthdays
John Trenchard (1649-1695)
Mar 30 English radical Whig politician and statesman, born in Lytchett Matravers, Dorset
Famous Deaths
- Mar 9 Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier, executed at 58
- Mar 9 James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman, dies at 42
- Mar 16 Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary and saint (mission with Huron people, published first French into Huron translation), tortured and killed by Iroquois in New France at 55
- Mar 17 Gabriel Lallemant, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs, tortured and killed by Iroquois (b. 1610)
- Mar 17 Gerardus Johannis Vossius [Gerrit Vos], Dutch regent, dies at 71
- Mar 19 Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
John Winthrop (1588-1649)
Mar 26 English Puritan lawyer and 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 61
