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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 30th of March 1282 | EVENT | The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers. |
| 30th of March 1296 | EVENT | Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England. |
| 30th of March 1814 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris. |
| 30th of March 1814 | EVENT | Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification. |
| 30th of March 1822 | EVENT | The Florida Territory is created in the United States. |
| 30th of March 1842 | EVENT | Anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long. |
| 30th of March 1844 | EVENT | One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros. |
| 30th of March 1855 | EVENT | Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas : "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature. |
| 30th of March 1856 | EVENT | The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War. |
| 30th of March 1863 | EVENT | Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece. |
| 30th of March 1867 | EVENT | Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km?), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. |
| 30th of March 1870 | EVENT | Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction. |
| 30th of March 1885 | EVENT | The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire. |
| 30th of March 1909 | EVENT | The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens. |
| 30th of March 1910 | EVENT | The Mississippi Legislature founds The University of Southern Mississippi. |
| 30th of March 1912 | EVENT | Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate. |
| 30th of March 1918 | EVENT | Outburst of bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate. |
| 30th of March 1939 | EVENT | The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph. |
| 30th of March 1940 | EVENT | Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei. |
| 30th of March 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria. |
| 30th of March 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna; Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdansk. |
| 30th of March 1949 | EVENT | A riot breaks out in Austurvollur square in Reykjavik, when Iceland joins NATO. |
| 30th of March 1954 | EVENT | The Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto. It is the first subway in Canada. |
| 30th of March 1961 | EVENT | The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City. |
| 30th of March 1965 | EVENT | Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the US Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others. |
| 30th of March 1972 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam. |
| 30th of March 1976 | EVENT | The first Land Day protests are held in Israel/Palestine. |
| 30th of March 1979 | EVENT | Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility. |
| 30th of March 1981 | EVENT | President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr. |
| 30th of March 1982 | EVENT | Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. |
| 30th of March 2006 | EVENT | The United Kingdom Terrorism Act 2006 becomes a law. |
| 30th of March 2009 | EVENT | Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan. |
| 30th of March 2011 | EVENT | India beats Pakistan by 29 runs in the Semi Finals of the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup in Mohali. |
| 30th of March 1326 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359) |
| 30th of March 1432 | BIRTHDAY | Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1481) |
| 30th of March 1640 | BIRTHDAY | John Trenchard, English politician (d. 1695) |
| 30th of March 1746 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (d. 1828) |
| 30th of March 1750 | BIRTHDAY | John Stafford Smith, English composer (d. 1836) |
| 30th of March 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bunsen, German chemist (d. 1899) |
| 30th of March 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Sewell, British author (d. 1878) |
| 30th of March 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Verlaine, French poet (d. 1896) |
| 30th of March 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (d. 1890) |
| 30th of March 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926) |
| 30th of March 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (d. 1943) |
| 30th of March 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d. 1954) |
| 30th of March 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist (d. 1964) |
| 30th of March 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Melanie Klein, British Psychoanalyst (d. 1960) |
| 30th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician (d. 1945) |
| 30th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960) |
| 30th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972) |
| 30th of March 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (d. 1977) |
| 30th of March 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Giono, French author (d. 1970) |
| 30th of March 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali writer (d. 1970) |
| 30th of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (d. 2007) |
| 30th of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d. 1969) |
| 30th of March 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Countee Cullen, American poet (d. 1946) |
| 30th of March 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (d. 1984) |
| 30th of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Ripper Collins, American baseball player (d. 1970) |
| 30th of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Pierrepoint, English executioner (d. 1992) |
| 30th of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994) |
| 30th of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1940) |
| 30th of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Helms, American CIA director (d. 2002) |
| 30th of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000) |
| 30th of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Laine, American singer (d. 2007) |
| 30th of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Censu Tabone, President of Malta |
| 30th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948) |
| 30th of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | McGeorge Bundy, American National Security Advisor (d. 1996) |
| 30th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Turhan Bey, Turkish actor |
| 30th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986) |
| 30th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrepreneur |
| 30th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Marshall, American game show host |
| 30th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (d. 1992) |
| 30th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Badinter, French politician |
| 30th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Sharpe, English satirical author |
| 30th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Dysart, American actor |
| 30th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | John Astin, American actor |
| 30th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson, former Lord of Appeal, UK |
| 30th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Rolf Harris, Australian artist and entertainer |
| 30th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007) |
| 30th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Berger, German musicologist and musician |
| 30th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Galimore, American football player (d. 1964) |
| 30th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Beatty, American actor and director |
| 30th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Lucas, American basketball player |
| 30th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Ragnemalm, Swedish professor of public law, and judge |
| 30th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme Edge, British musician (Moody Blues) |
| 30th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan |
| 30th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Smith, former American politician |
| 30th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Kun, Nauruan politician and former President of Nauru |
| 30th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (d. 1998) |
| 30th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Clapton, British guitarist |
| 30th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Johnnie Walker, British DJ |
| 30th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ryszard Kotla, Polish travel writer and activist |
| 30th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Jordan, former owner of Jordan Grand Prix |
| 30th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Mervyn King, British economist, Governor of the Bank of England (2003 : present) |
| 30th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Naomi Sims, American fashion model and businesswoman (d. 2009) |
| 30th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Magliozzi, American radio personality |
| 30th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Liza Frulla, Quebec politician |
| 30th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian |
| 30th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Yves Seguin, Quebec politician |
| 30th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Knights, Australian footballer and coach |
| 30th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (d. 2004) |
| 30th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Juanito Oiarzabal, Basque mountaineer |
| 30th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Butler, Scottish politician |
| 30th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Shahla Sherkat, Iranian feminist journalist |
| 30th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Reiser, American actor |
| 30th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor |
| 30th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Sabine Meyer, German clarinetist |
| 30th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis, New Zealand convicted child abuser |
| 30th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999) |
| 30th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | MC Hammer, American rap musician |
| 30th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Begich, American Senator from Alaska |
| 30th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Bil Dwyer, American actor |
| 30th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer and conductor |
| 30th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Panagiotis Tsalouchidis, Greek footballer |
| 30th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Tracy Chapman, American singer |
| 30th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Vlado Bozinovski, Australian former footballer |
| 30th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Ellett, Canadian hockey player |
| 30th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Ziering, American actor |
| 30th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Piers Morgan, British journalist and television personality |
| 30th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Efstratios Grivas, Greek chess grandmaster and author |
| 30th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Castillo, American drummer (Queens of the Stone Age) |
| 30th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (d. 2008) |
| 30th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Hayashibara Megumi, Japanese voice actress and singer |
| 30th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hutten, designer |
| 30th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Celine Dion, Canadian singer |
| 30th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Donna D'Errico, American actress and model |
| 30th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Consuelos, American actor |
| 30th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mari Holden, American cycle racer |
| 30th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mili Avital, Israeli-American actress |
| 30th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Pritchard, Welsh stuntman |
| 30th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Koller, Czech footballer |
| 30th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Griffen, New Zealand-born Italian rugby player |
| 30th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Bahar Soomekh, American actress |
| 30th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ty Conklin, American ice hockey player |
| 30th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Obadele Thompson, Barbadian athlete |
| 30th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Mark McClelland, Northern Irish musician (Degrassi) |
| 30th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player |
| 30th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Norah Jones, American musician |
| 30th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Anatoliy Tymoschuk Ukrainian footballer |
| 30th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Webbe, English singer |
| 30th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Osorio, Mexican footballer |
| 30th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Yal?n, Turkish singer and songwriter |
| 30th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jammal Brown, American football player |
| 30th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Masi, Italian rugby player |
| 30th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Dohring, American actor |
| 30th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Hudson, English footballer |
| 30th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremie Aliadiere, French footballer |
| 30th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Moffatt, Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 30th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Zach Gowen, American professional wrestler |
| 30th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Hebe Tien, Taiwanese singer (S.H.E) |
| 30th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Davis Romero, Panamanian baseball player |
| 30th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Ancic, Croatian tennis player |
| 30th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Nalick, American singer and songwriter |
| 30th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player |
| 30th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Beni Arashiro, Japanese singer |
| 30th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer |
| 30th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Canadian hockey player |
| 30th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Trent Barreta, American professional wrestler |
| 30th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Thanasis Papazoglou, Greek footballer |
| 30th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Cassie Scerbo, American actress |
| 30th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Gi Kwang, Korean singer and dancer (BEAST) |
| 30th of March 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Solovay, American singer-songwriter |
| 30th of March 1486 | DEATH | Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 30th of March 1526 | DEATH | Konrad Mutian, German humanist (Born 1471) |
| 30th of March 1540 | DEATH | Matthaus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (Born 1469) |
| 30th of March 1559 | DEATH | Adam Ries, German mathematician (Born 1492) |
| 30th of March 1587 | DEATH | Ralph Sadler, English statesman (Born 1507) |
| 30th of March 1662 | DEATH | Francois le Metel de Boisrobert, French poet (Born 1592) |
| 30th of March 1707 | DEATH | Vauban, French architect (Born 1633) |
| 30th of March 1764 | DEATH | Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (Born 1695) |
| 30th of March 1783 | DEATH | William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (Born 1718) |
| 30th of March 1804 | DEATH | Victor-Francois, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (Born 1718) |
| 30th of March 1806 | DEATH | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, English duchess (Born 1757) |
| 30th of March 1830 | DEATH | Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (Born 1763) |
| 30th of March 1840 | DEATH | Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy (Born 1778) |
| 30th of March 1842 | DEATH | Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, French painter (Born 1755) |
| 30th of March 1879 | DEATH | Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (Born 1815) |
| 30th of March 1886 | DEATH | Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, French Canadian politician (Born 1838) |
| 30th of March 1896 | DEATH | Charilaos Trikoupis, seven times prime-minister of Greece (Born 1832) |
| 30th of March 1912 | DEATH | Karl May, German author (Born 1842) |
| 30th of March 1925 | DEATH | Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (Born 1861) |
| 30th of March 1936 | DEATH | Conchita Supervia, Spanish opera singer (Born 1895) |
| 30th of March 1943 | DEATH | Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (Born 1921) |
| 30th of March 1943 | DEATH | Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (Born 1920) |
| 30th of March 1949 | DEATH | Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1884) |
| 30th of March 1950 | DEATH | Leon Blum, French prime minister (Born 1872) |
| 30th of March 1952 | DEATH | Jigme Wangchuck, Second king of Bhutan (Born 1905) |
| 30th of March 1959 | DEATH | Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (Born 1906) |
| 30th of March 1959 | DEATH | Riccardo Zanella, president of Free State of Fiume (Born 1875) |
| 30th of March 1965 | DEATH | Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1896) |
| 30th of March 1966 | DEATH | Maxfield Parrish, American artist (Born 1870) |
| 30th of March 1966 | DEATH | Newbold Morris, American politician (Born 1902) |
| 30th of March 1967 | DEATH | Jean Toomer, American writer (Born 1894) |
| 30th of March 1968 | DEATH | Bobby Driscoll, American actor (Born 1937) |
| 30th of March 1970 | DEATH | Heinrich Bruning, German politician, Chancellor (1930 : 1932) (Born 1885) |
| 30th of March 1972 | DEATH | Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (Born 1890) |
| 30th of March 1977 | DEATH | Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (Born 1929) |
| 30th of March 1979 | DEATH | Airey Neave, British politician and WW2 veteran (Born1916) |
| 30th of March 1981 | DEATH | DeWitt Wallace, American publisher (Born 1889) |
| 30th of March 1984 | DEATH | Karl Rahner, German theologian (Born 1904) |
| 30th of March 1985 | DEATH | Harold Peary, American actor and singer (Born 1908) |
| 30th of March 1986 | DEATH | James Cagney, American actor (Born 1899) |
| 30th of March 1988 | DEATH | Edgar Faure, French politician (Born 1908) |
| 30th of March 1992 | DEATH | Manolis Andronikos, Greek archeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Born 1919) |
| 30th of March 1999 | DEATH | Gary Morton, American film and television producer (Born 1924) |
| 30th of March 2000 | DEATH | Rudolf Kirchschlager, Austrian politician, President (1974 : 1986) (Born 1915) |
| 30th of March 2002 | DEATH | Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (Born 1930) |
| 30th of March 2002 | DEATH | Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (Born 1900) |
| 30th of March 2003 | DEATH | Michael Jeter, American actor (Born 1952) |
| 30th of March 2003 | DEATH | Valentin Pavlov, Soviet politician, Prime Minister (1991) (Born 1937) |
| 30th of March 2004 | DEATH | Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (Born 1908) |
| 30th of March 2004 | DEATH | Michael King, New Zealand historian (Born 1945) |
| 30th of March 2004 | DEATH | Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (Born 1914) |
| 30th of March 2004 | DEATH | Timi Yuro, American singer (Born 1940) |
| 30th of March 2005 | DEATH | Robert Creeley, American poet (Born 1926) |
| 30th of March 2005 | DEATH | Emil Dimitrov, Bulgarian singer (Born 1940) |
| 30th of March 2005 | DEATH | Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (Born 1968) |
| 30th of March 2005 | DEATH | Milton Green, American athlete (Born 1913) |
| 30th of March 2005 | DEATH | Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (Born 1919) |
| 30th of March 2005 | DEATH | Chrysanthos Theodoridis, Greek singer (Born 1934) |
| 30th of March 2005 | DEATH | Derrick Plourde, American drummer (Born 1971) |
| 30th of March 2005 | DEATH | O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (Born 1930) |
| 30th of March 2006 | DEATH | John McGahern, Irish novelist (Born 1934) |
| 30th of March 2006 | DEATH | Red Hickey, American football coach (Born 1917) |
| 30th of March 2008 | DEATH | Dith Pran, Cambodian photographer The Killing Fields (Born 1942) |
| 30th of March 2008 | DEATH | David Leslie, touring car driver (Born 1953) |
| 30th of March 2008 | DEATH | Richard Lloyd, racing car driver (Born 1945) |
| 30th of March 2010 | DEATH | Jaime Escalante, Bolivian-born American high school teacher at Garfield High School (Born 1930) |
| 30th of March 2010 | DEATH | Martin Sandberger, German military officer (Born 1911) |