9 March AD 2019
24 February AM 7527
12th Indiction
a.d. vii Id. Mart. MMDCCLXXII A.U.C.
Feast of Our Lady of Savigny, France
Feast of the 40 Martyr of Sebaste
Feast of St Catherine of Bologna
a.d. vii Id. Mart. MMDCCLXXII A.U.C.
Feast of Our Lady of Savigny, France
- 769 – Alan of Farfa, Aquitanian scholar and hermit died
- 842 – Humbert, bishop of Würzburg died
- 1213 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy born (d. 1271)
- 1230 – Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
- 1440 – St Frances of Rome died (b. 1384)
- 1541 - François I gives Jean-François de La Roque de Roberval c1500-1560 a grant of £40,000 livres and appoints him "Viceroy of the Kingdom of Canada, as well as Hochelaga, Saguenay, Newfoundland, Belle Isle, Cap Rouge, Labrador, the Great Bay and Baccalaos"; authorizes him to take a boatload of convicts to Canada to assist in founding a colony; Jacques Cartier ordered to go ahead to prepare the way for Roberval; Cartier puts to sea, on May 23, 1541. Paris, France
- 1566 – David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
- 1568 – St Aloysius Gonzaga born (d. 1591)
- 1661 – Jules, Cardinal Mazarin, died, Italian-French academic and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1602)
- 1763 – William Cobbett, English journalist and author born (d. 1835)
- 1776 – The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published. A black day!
- 1873 - John A Macdonald government proposes establishment of a Mounted Police force for the North West Territories; act passed May 23. The birth of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- 1925 – Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
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