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02 March 2019

2 March, On This Day

2 March AD 2019
17 February AM 7527
12th Indiction
ante diem vi Nonas Martii MMDCCLXXII A.U.C.
  • 480 – St Benedict of Nursia, born (d. 543 or 547)
  • 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off.
  • 986 – Lothair, king of West Francia died (b.941)
  • 986 – Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
  • 1333 – Wladyslaw I, king of Poland died (b. 1261)
  • 1458 – George of Poděbrady is chosen as the king of Bohemia.
  • 1459 – Pope Adrian VI born (d. 1523)
  • 1484 – The College of Arms is formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England.
  • 1648 - Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge et d'Argentenay c1612-1660 appointed Governor of New France; serves from August 20 to October 20, 1651. Paris, France
  • 1699 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, travelling by sea, discovers the mouth of the Mississippi.
  • 1729 - Louis XV authorizes new issue of playing card money in New France; not enough printed bills or coinage to pay the troops.
  • 1810 – Pope Leo XIII born (d. 1903)
  • 1835 – Francis II, Last Emperor of the Romans, first Emperor of Austria died (b. 1768)
  • 1855 – Nicholas I, Russian emperor died (b. 1796)
  • 1855 – Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
  • 1876 – Pope Pius XII born (d. 1958) - see below
  • 1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
  • 1919 – The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
  • 1939 – Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
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