After the French invasion, on 19 March 1798, the governments of Zurich and Bern agreed to the creation of the short lived Canton of Baden in the Helvetic Republic.

French forces occupied Aargau from 10 March to 18 April 1798 ; thereafter the Bernese portion became the canton of Aargau in the Helvetic Republic and the remainder formed the Canton of Baden.

As act two opens, the two groups are now in bitter rivalry over who is the normal group (“ A-1 March ”) Another stranger, a French woman in a feathered coat appears.

On 25 March 1841, France purchased the island of Maore ( the name of the island was corrupted in French to " Mayotte ") ( ratified 13 June 1843 ), which became a colony.

All British Army cavalry regiments had been mechanised since 1 March 1942 when the Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons ( Yeomanry ) was converted to a motorised role, following mounted service against the Vichy French in Syria the previous year.

Universal male suffrage was definitely established in France in March 1848 in the wake of the French Revolution of 1848.

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

On 26 February 1815, Napoleon abandoned Elba for France, reviving the French Empire for a Hundred Days ; the Allies declared an end to Napoleon's sovereignty over Elba on 25 March 1815, and on 31 March 1815 Elba was ceded to the restored Grand Duchy of Tuscany by the Congress of Vienna.

Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot ( September 11, 1845 – March 28, 1903 ), French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code, was one of the pioneers of telecommunications.

French Guiana became an overseas département of France on 19 March 1946.

He was involved in the large-scale French protests of 1968, starting from the Movement of March 22.

The March to Versailles is but one example of feminist militant activism during the French Revolution.

The French Foreign Legion was created by Louis Philippe, the King of the French, on 10 March 1831.

Between March and April 2009, 150 artists exhibited 300 pieces of graffiti at the Grand Palais in Paris — a clear acceptance of the art form into the French art world.

On 17 March 1649 a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf of the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ) since 1637, landed at St. Georges Harbour and constructed a fortified settlement, which they named Fort Annunciation.

Gustave de Molinari ( 3 March 1819 – 28 January 1912 ) was an economist born in Belgium associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille.

In March 1686, the French sent a raiding party under the Chevalier des Troyes over to capture the company's posts along James Bay.

Henri Bordeaux ( 25 January 1870 in Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie-29 March 1963 ) was a French writer and lawyer.

On 19 March, the first Allied act to secure the no-fly zone began when French military jets entered Libyan airspace on a reconnaissance mission heralding attacks on enemy targets.

In March 2006, the French Minister of Culture awarded Lewis the Légion d ' honneur, calling him the " French people's favorite clown ".

Jean-Jacques Ampère ( 12 August 1800 – 27 March 1864 ) was a French philologist and man of letters.

The German occupation of the Czech area of Czecho-Slovakia on the Ides of March, in total contravention of the Munich Agreement that had been signed less than six months before, infuriated British and French public opinion and lost Germany all sympathy.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

On 19 March 2012 The Royal Mail launched a special stamp collection to celebrate Britain's rich comic book history.

The following season, the Wings looked poised to " three-peat " for the first time in franchise history, acquiring three-time top blueliner Chris Chelios from his hometown Chicago Blackhawks in March 1999, but they would end up losing the Western Conference Semifinals to Colorado in six games.

Early in the history of the state of Pakistan, a resolution ( the Objectives Resolution ) was adopted proclaiming " Sovereignty belongs to Allah alone but He has delegated it to the State of Pakistan through its people for being exercised within the limits prescribed by Him as a sacred trust " ( 12 March 1949 )

In March 2010, in an essay defending Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel, Hogan stated that the mainstream history of the Holocaust includes " claims that are wildly fantastic, mutually contradictory, and defy common sense and often physical possibility.

In March 2009 the Koenigsegg CCXR was chosen by Forbes to be one of the ten most beautiful cars in history.

Lithuania implemented its strategic goals and acquired the most reliable security assurance throughout the history of a millennium as it became a member of Euro-Atlantic society in March 2004.

* 1904 – The " most extensive flood in 135 years of local history " causes the Grand River to overflow its banks on March 24 – 27, leading to major damage and one death.

Eugenio Marìa Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli was born on 2 March 1876 in Rome into a family of intense Catholic piety with a history of ties to the papacy ( the " Black Nobility ").

The biggest rescue in the RNLI's history was 17 March 1907 when the 12, 000 tonne liner SS Suevic hit the Maenheere Reef near Lizard Point in Cornwall.

Zachris Topelius (; 14 January 1818 – 12 March 1898 ) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, journalist, historian, and rector of the University of Helsinki who wrote novels related to Finnish history in Swedish.

* March 27 – Tenerife disaster: A collision between KLM and Pan Am Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 persons ( the deadliest accident in aviation history ).

* March 23 – General Rahimuddin Khan becomes the first man in Pakistan's history to rule over 2 of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of Sindh.

* March 7 – Bradbury Robinson, American who threw the first forward pass in American football history in 1906 ( b. 1884 )

* March 16 – The largest flood in the history of Brampton, Ontario, occurs.

* March 17 – March 18 – St. Patrick's Day Flood: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, suffers the worst flooding in its history.

* March 26 – The longest game in the history of the National Hockey League was played.

* March 18 – In the worst school disaster in American history in terms of lives lost, the New London School in New London, Texas suffers a catastrophic natural gas explosion, killing in excess of 295 students and teachers.

* March 3 – The first football game in Ohio State history is played in Delaware, Ohio against Ohio Wesylan where Ohio State won 20 – 14.

** During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US $ 200, 000 in ransom money, and is never seen again ( as of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history ).

* March 24 – For the only time in history, the Boat Race between the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford is declared a " dead heat " ( i. e. a draw ).

* March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U. S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2, 027.

On 19 March 2012 The Royal Mail launched a special stamp collection to celebrate Britain's rich comic book history, which included 2000 AD.

The most record-breaking tornado in recorded history was the Tri-State Tornado, which roared through parts of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925.