Less than seven weeks later, on 25 March, Bruce was crowned as King.

Robert I ( 11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329 ), popularly known as Robert the Bruce ( Medieval Gaelic: Roibert a Briuis ; modern Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Bruis ; Norman French: Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys ), was King of Scots from 25 March 1306, until his death in 1329.

However, though recently pledged to support King Edward, it is interesting to note that Robert the Bruce sent a letter to the monks at Melrose Abbey in March 1302 which effectively weakened his usefulness to the English king.

Six weeks after Comyn was killed in Dumfries, Bruce was crowned King of Scots by Bishop William de Lamberton at Scone, near Perth on 25 March with all formality and solemnity.

* March 14 – Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer

* March 26 – Jean Bruce, French writer, car accident ( b. 1921 )

* March 1 – George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer and author ( b. 1825 )

* R. Bruce Hitchner and Paul Williams, " Op-Ed: A Defining Moment ", ( March 23, 2004 ), The Baltimore Sun.

* March 25 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of the Scots only five weeks after the murder in Dumfries.

* March 2 – Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I of Scotland ( b. 1296 )

The situation changed again on 10 February 1306, when Robert the Bruce murdered his rival John Comyn and a few weeks later, on 25 March, had himself crowned king of Scotland by Isobel, sister of the Earl of Buchan.

Clapton had met Bruce when the bassist / vocalist briefly played with the Bluesbreakers in March 1966 ; the two also had worked together as part of a one-shot band called Powerhouse ( which also included Steve Winwood and Paul Jones ).

Walter Bruce Willis ( born March 19, 1955 ), known professionally as Bruce Willis, is a German-born American actor, producer, and musician.

In 1986 a motion was introduced by Ron Sims ( a black Democrat from Seattle ), and Bruce Laing ( a white Republican from suburban Renton ) to change the namesake to Martin Luther King, Jr. On March 12, 2007, the new logo was unveiled.

Florida State Road 56 is currently slated to extend east from its current terminus at Bruce B. Downs Boulevard to a terminus at US 301 in Zephyrhills, of which the first phase has begun March 2008.

* Daniel D. Bruce, United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam in March 1969

A Stewart succession was suddenly endangered when David II had his marriage to Margaret annulled in March 1369 leaving the king free to re-marry and with the prospect of a Bruce heir.

The group signed to Avenue Records subsidiary label LAX ( MCA Records ), with a slightly altered lineup of: David Clayton-Thomas ( vocals, guitar ), Robert Piltch ( guitar ), David Piltch ( bass ), Richard Martinez ( keyboards ), Bruce Cassidy ( trumpet, flugelhorn ), Earl Seymour ( sax, flute ), Vernon Dorge ( sax, flute ) and a returning Bobby Economou on drums, and with producer and arranger Jerry Goldstein, recorded the album Nuclear Blues ( March 1980 ).

* Interview with Xenakis by Bruce Duffie, March 25, 1997

** March 4 – Bruce Cockburn is inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame

A live date by the whole Bluesbreakers outfit — again with Jack Bruce temporarily on bass — was recorded on Mayall's two-track tape recorder at the Flamingo on 17 March.

From March 14, 1971, to March 11, 1972, the Newspaper Enterprise Association syndicated a Dark Shadows comic strip by illustrator Kenneth Bruce Bald ( credited as " K. Bruce " because of contractual obligations ) to dozens of newspapers across the country.

Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

Other notable productions in Europe from the 1980s included the March 1986 presentation by the Scottish Opera in Glasgow ; a June 1990 production in Florence by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

On March 26, 1895, Scottish chemist Sir William Ramsay isolated helium on Earth by treating the mineral cleveite ( a variety of uraninite with at least 10 % rare earth elements ) with mineral acids.

James Hutton ( Edinburgh, 3 June 1726 OS – 26 March 1797 ) was a Scottish physician, geologist, naturalist, chemical manufacturer and experimental agriculturalist.

John James Rickard Macleod FRS ( 6 September 1876 – 16 March 1935 ) was a Scottish physician and physiologist.

Jock Taylor ( March 9, 1954-August 15, 1982 ) was a Scottish World Champion motorcycle sidecar racer.

Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish MBE ( born 4 March 1951 ) is a Scottish former footballer and manager.

In recognition of his services to the promotion of geography, Palin was awarded the Livingstone Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in March 2009, along with a Fellowship to the Society.

He settled a controversy with King William I of Scotland concerning the choice of the archbishop of St. Andrews, and on 13 March 1188 removed the Scottish church from the legatine jurisdiction of the Archbishop of York, thus making it independent of all save Rome.

Sir Ralph Abercromby ( sometimes spelt Abercrombie ) ( 7 October 1734 – 28 March 1801 ) was a Scottish soldier and politician.

William Topaz McGonagall ( March 1825 – 29 September 1902 ) was a Scottish weaver, doggerel poet and actor.

* March 4 – Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter ( d. 1823 )

* March 10 – Anne MacKenzie, Scottish broadcaster

* March 23 – Nicol Stephen, Scottish politician

* March 31 – Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner ( killed in action ) ( b. 1882 )

* March 11 – Henry Drummond, Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer ( b. 1851 )

* March 11 – Henry Drummond, Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer

* March 26 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist ( b. 1726 )

* March 25 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon ( b. 1795 )

* March 25 – Andy Clyde, Scottish actor ( d. 1967 )

* March 11 – Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1881 )

* March 27 – Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist ( b. 1842 )

* March 8 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar ( b. 1701 )

* March 2 – The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.