March 18

• March 18, 235
  Alexander Severus, Syrian emperor of Rome, is murdered by his troops. Maximinus Thrax becomes 27th Emperor of the Roman Empire
• March 18, 1167
  Battle of al-Babein between Kingdom of Jerusalem and Syrians for control of Egypt ends with draw
• March 18, 1314
  Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake along with his aides by order of King Philip IV of France, who was deeply in debt to the order
• March 18, 1442
  Forces of Kingdom of Hungary defeat the Ottoman Turks in Battle of Hermannstadt
• March 18, 1532
  English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome
• March 18, 1584
  Ivan IV the Terrible, Russian tsar, dies at age 53 and is succeeded by his weak-minded son, Fyodor I with duties handed over to his wife's brother and trusted minister Boris Godunov
• March 18, 1793
  Austria army beats France at Battle of Neerwinden
• March 18, 1871
  Paris Commune, a revolutionary and socialist government in Paris, is founded
• March 18, 1899
  Phoebe, a moon of Saturn, is discovered by American astronomer William Henry Pickering
• March 18, 1902
  Enrico Caruso, an Italian operatic tenor, becomes first well-known performer to make a gramophone record
• March 18, 1913
  George I, king of Greece, is assassinated by socialist Alexandros Schinas at age 67
• March 18, 1915
  Turkey's Canakkale Sea Victory against allied powers occurs during Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign
• March 18, 1920
  Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
• March 18, 1921
  Polish-Soviet War ends with Peace of Riga, by witch the disputed territories in Belarus and Ukraine are partitioned between Russia and Poland, and Russia surrender works of art and other Polish national treasures acquired from Polish territories after 1772
• March 18, 1925
  60-kmps Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest tornado in U.S. history, speed through Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee killing 689
• March 18, 1948
  France, Great Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg sign Treaty of Brussels, contains a mutual defence clause and provides a basis to foundation the Western European Union
• March 18, 1959
  President Dwight D Eisenhower signs Hawaii Admission Act, which admits the Hawaii into the United States as the 50th state
• March 18, 1965
  First human space walks occurs, when Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaves his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes
• March 18, 1970
  Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk flees after military coup under General Lon Nol during Cambodian Civil War
• March 18, 1974
  Most Arab oil-producing nations end embargo against United States
• March 18, 1978
  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, is sentenced to death by hanging for ordering the assassination of a political opponent
• March 18, 1980
  Fifty people are killed at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, when a Vostok-2M rocket explodes on its launch pad during a fueling operation
• March 18, 2000
  Chen Shui-bian, one of the founders of Democratic Progressive Party, is elected President of the Taiwan ending Kuomintang rule for the first time

March 11

• March 11, 222
  Elagabalus, Syrian emperor of Rome, is murdered at age 18. Alexander Severus succeeds
• March 11, 537
  The Goths lay siege to Rome during the Gothic War
• March 11, 1566
  The Second Statute of Lithuania goes into effect by the order of King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund II Augustus and upholds a democracy of landowners
• March 11, 1649
  The peace of Rueil is signed between the Frondeurs and the French government
• March 11, 1702
  The first English daily newspaper, The Daily Courant, is published for first time
• March 11, 1792
  The British St. George's Bay Company transport a second group of settlers, including 1,196 Blacks from Nova Scotia, 500 Jamaicans and dozens of rebellious slaves from other colonies, who found Freetown, Sierra Leone
• March 11, 1810
  Emperor Napoleon of France marries by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria
• March 11, 1811
  Ned Ludd, leader a group of workers in a wild protest against mechanization in Britain, begin their activity with destruction of textile machinery near Nottingham that is eliminating their jobs
• March 11, 1845
  Seven hundred Māoris led by their chief, Hone Heke, burn the small town of Kororareka in protest at the settlement of Maoriland by Europeans, starting New Zealand Wars
• March 11, 1851
  Rigoletto, an opera written by Giuseppe Verdi, is premiered at La Fenice in Venice
• March 11, 1888
  Great Blizzard of 1888 strikes the northeastern United States, resulting in some 400 deaths
• March 11, 1917
  British troops occupy Baghdad during World War I
• March 11, 1935
  Hermann Göring, a leading member of the Nazi Party, officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
• March 11, 1938
  An Austrian Nazi politician Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria after Hitler' ultimatum
• March 11, 1941
  The US Congress passes "An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States", known as the Lend-Lease Bill, which will provide billions of dollars of war materials to the Allied powers
• March 11, 1985
  Mikhail Gorbachev is elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R by the Politburo, which marks reorientation of Soviet strategic aims to the end of the Cold War
• March 11, 1990
  Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically-elected Chilean president since 1970
• March 11, 2004
  In Madrid, Spain, ten simultaneous explosions on commuter trains and in rail stations kill 190 people
• March 11, 2006
  Slobodan Milošević is found dead at age 64 from an apparent heart attack in his prison cell in the United Nations war crimes tribunal's detention centre, located in the Scheveningen section of The Hague
• March 11, 2011
  A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15,840 and leaving another 3,926 missing, followed by emergencies declared at four nuclear power plants affected by the quake