Historical Events
- Mar 16 Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
Black Death
Mar 20 Conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, thought by scholars at the University of Paris to be the "cause of the plague epidemic" known as the Black Death. Actual cause was the bacterium yersinia pestis spread by fleas, rats and other animals.
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Blanche of Lancaster (1345-1369)
Mar 25 English heiress and wife of John of Gaunt
Famous Deaths
- Mar 25 Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)
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