13 March AD 2019
28 February AM 7527
12th Indiction
a.d. iii Id. Mart. MMDCCLXXII A.U.C.
Feast of Our Lady of the Empress, Rome
Feast of St Leander of Seville
Feast of St Roderick, Mozarab Priest, martyred by the Muslims
Feast of St Gerald of Mayo
- 601 – St Leander of Seville, died (b. 534)
- 874 – The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople.
- 1138 – Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
- 1202 – Mieszko III the Old, king of Poland, died (b. c. 1121)
- 1516 – Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary died (b. 1456)
- 1615 – Innocent XII, Pope, born (d. 1700).
- 1660 -- Bishop Laval ordains Henri de Bernières as a priest; first Roman Catholic curé to be ordained in Canada; will later serve as the first superior of the Séminaire de Québec.
- 1697 – Nojpetén, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
- 1741 – Joseph II, penultimate (Holy) Roman Emperor, born (d. 1790)
- 1808 – Christian VII of Denmark died (b. 1749)
- 1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
- 1848 – The German revolutions of 1848–49 begin in Vienna.
- 1866 -- Prince of Wales Regiment and Battery of Artillery leave Montreal to repel Fenian invaders.
- 1881 – Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him (this is the Gregorian date; it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia).
- 1884 – The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
- 1900 – Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
- 1909 - Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona, founder of Lord Strathcona's Horse, sets up The Strathcona Trust, a fund for military training and cadet corps in schools.
- 1920 – The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
- 1954 – First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French to begin the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War.
- 2013 – Pope Francis is elected, in the papal conclave, as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church-A sad day for Holy Mother Church!-JW
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