| 0 | | International Women's Day |
| 1126 | | Accession of King Alfonso of Galicia (1111-1157) as Alfonso VII of Castile and León (1126-1157), later proclaimed Emperor of All the Spains (1135-1157) |
| 1604 | | Duel between master samurai Yoshioka Seijuro and Miyamoto Musashi, who slays his opponent on the first blow |
| 1702 | | Accession of Queen Anne of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1702-1707), and of Great Britain and Ireland (1707-1714) |
| 1722 | | Battle of Gulnabad: Shah Mahmud of Afghanistan defeats Persian Shah Hussain, capturing him and plunging Persia into anarchy |
| 1782 | | Gnadenhutten Massacre: Pennsylvania militiamen kill 96 Christian Munsee Indians |
| 1801 | | British drive French from Abukir, Egypt |
| 1844 | | Accession of King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway (1844-1859), son of Marshal Bernadotte. |
| 1854 | | Commo Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan |
| 1861 | | Union troops capture St Augustine, Fl. |
| 1862 | | Battle of Hampton Roads I: CSS 'Virginia' & gunboats sink two sailing frigates, threatening the Union blockade -- Learn More |
| 1865 | | Battle of Kingston/Wilcox's Ridge/Wise's Forks, NC |
| 1865 | | The Confederacy adopts a new flag, adding a red band along the fly of the "Stainless Banner" |
| 1896 | | First Battle of Sebderat: Italians defeat the Sudanese Mahdists |
| 1910 | | First licensed woman pilot: French Baroness Raymonde de La Roche |
| 1915 | | The old cruiser 'Baltimore' (C-3) is recommissioned as a minelayer (CM-1), the first in the USN |
| 1917 | | Republican Revolution in Russia - "The February Revolution" [Feb 24 OS] |
| 1942 | | Japanese troops occupy Rangoon. |
| 1942 | | Netherlands Indies surrender to the Japanese |
| 1943 | | Japanese offensive across the Yangtze, between Ichang and Yoyang. |
| 1944 | | India: Japanese offensive against British forces near Imphal. |
| 1945 | | 1st African-American Navy Nurse commissioned: Ens. Phyllis Daley |
| 1945 | | Burma: British troops fight their way into Japanese-held Mandalay. |
| 1945 | | Luzon: Sixth Army offensive against the Japanese Shimbu Line. |
| 1950 | | First woman medical officer assigned to a US naval vessel: B R Walters |
| 1950 | | USSR announces they have developed the atomic bomb |
| 1958 | | 'Wisconsin' (BB-64) decommissioned; for the first time in 62 years the USN has no battleships in commission |
| 1959 | | Iraq: Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul |
| 1963 | | Military coup in Syria initiates decades of Baathist dictatorships |
| 1965 | | Vietnam: First US combat troops arrive (3,500 Marines) |
| 1966 | | Nelson's Column in Dublin destroyed by an IRA bomb |
| 1286 | | Duke John/Yann III "the Good" Brittany (1312-1341) |
| 1702 | | Anne Bonny, noted lady pirate, d. >1720, traditionally as late as 1782 |
| 1726 | | Richard Howe, later admiral of the fleet, d. 1799 - senior British naval commander early in the American Revolution -- Learn More |
| 1748 | | Prince Wilhelm V of Orange-Nassau, Stadtholder of the United Netherlands, (1751-1806; from 1795 in exile) |
| 1799 | | Simon Cameron, crooked SecWar (1861-1862), d. 1889 |
| 1836 | | Matthew Calbraith Butler, Maj Gen, C.S.A., d. 1909 |
| 1841 | | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of those "touched by fire", Supreme Court Justice, d. 1935 |
| 1891 | | Sam Jaffe, actor ("Gunga Din"), d. 1984 |
| 1952 | | Aleksandr A Volkov, Russian cosmonaut |
| 1126 | | Queen regnant Urraca of León, Castile, and Galicia (1108-1126), 46, in childbirth |
| 1144 | | Pope Celestine II - Guido del Casetllo (1143-1144) |
| 1202 | | King Sverre Sigurdsson of Norway (1184-1202), c. 50 |
| 1403 | | Ottoman Sultan Bajazet I "Ylidirim" (1387-1403), c. 45, at Antioch |
| 1460 | | King James II of Scots (1437-1460, c. 29, accidental cannon explosion at Roseburgh |
| 1466 | | Duke Francesco Sforza of Milan (1450-1466), condottiero, at 65 |
| 1702 | | King William III of England (1689-1702), at 51 |
| 1844 | | Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, 81, sometime Marshal of France, King Charles XIV John of Sweden and Norway (1818-1844) -- Learn More |
| 1862 | | Nathaniel Gordon, c. 28, slave smuggler, hanged in New York |
| 1874 | | Millard Fillmore, militiaman, president (1850-53), at 74 -- Learn More |
| 1889 | | John Ericsson, 85, designer of the 'Monitor' |
| 1917 | | Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, 78, soldier, aviation pioneer |
| 1921 | | Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato (1913-1915, 1917, 1920-1921), 54, assassinated in Madrid by anarchists |
| 1930 | | William Howard Taft, 72, President (1909-1913), SecWar (1904-1908), Chief Justice (1921-1930) |
| 1996 | | Lt Col John "Mad Jack" or "Fighting Jack" Churchill, DSO, MC, 89, who fought WW II with a longbow, claymore, & bagpipes |
| 2013 | | Mildred Dalton Manning, 98, sometime Army Nurse, last surviving "Angel of Corregidor" |
| 2013 | | Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, 90, German officer, anti-Hitler conspirator, last surviving veteran of the "July Plot" |
