However, he looked forward with anxiety for his release, which was delayed until March 1642 because the imperial government feared to see Horn at the head of the Swedish army and would not allow an exchange.

In March 1642 with the King absent from London and the war clouds gathering, Parliament decreed that its own Parliamentary Ordinances were valid laws, even without royal assent.

* The King leaves Hampton Court for the North 2 March 1642

* Militia Ordinance agreed by Lords and Commons 5 March 1642

* Parliament decreed that Parliamentary Ordinances were valid without royal assent following the King's refusal to assent to the Militia Ordinance 15 March 1642

* Adventurers Act to raise money to suppress the Irish Rebellion of 1641 19 March 1642

* March 31 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer ( b. 1642 )

* March 31 – Sir Isaac Newton, British scientist ( b. 1642 )

When it appeared to King Charles I that no agreement with Parliament over the government of the Kingdom was possible, he left London on 2 March 1642 and headed for the North of England.

The Lords Justices, who suspected him because he was related to many of the Confederate leaders, recalled him from command, after he had succeeded in lifting the siege of Drogheda in March 1642.

He was baptized at St Margaret's, Westminster on 15 March 1642.

He received successive promotions, being promoted to commander of 12, 000 foot and 7, 000 horse on 20 March 1636 ( roughly equivalent to lieutenant general ), to 15, 000 foot and 9, 000 horse on 24 August 1637, to 10, 000 horse on 19 March 1638, to 20, 000 foot and 10, 000 horse on 24 January 1639, and to 15, 000 horse on 21 January 1642.

He had already called attention to the inadequacy of his salary and been granted a sum of £ 6000 ( 9 April 1642 ); and he was now appointed Master of the Rolls ( 22 November 1643 ), and one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal ( October 1646 – March 1648 ).

In 1642, Brereton joined the Parliamentarian forces, and in March 1643 was appointed Commander-in-Chief for Parliament's army in Cheshire, where he quickly established a formidable intelligence network of spies and agents.

Jean-Marc Nattier ( March 17, 1685 – November 7, 1766 ), French painter, was born in Paris, the second son of Marc Nattier ( 1642 – 1705 ), a portrait painter, and of Marie Courtois ( 1655 – 1703 ), a miniaturist.

* 1642: An alliance of Irish Catholics ; Gaelic Irish and the Old English forms the Catholic Confederation, based at Kilkenny, meeting first in March 1642.

Barnaby Potter ( 1577 – 1642 ) was a Church of England priest, Bishop of Carlisle from 16 March 1628-9 to 1642.

Jakub Zadzik ( 1582 – March 17, 1642 ) was a Polish Great Crown Secretary from 1613 to 1627, bishop of Chełmno from 1624, Crown Deputy Chancellor from 1627, Great Crown Chancellor from 1628 to 1635, bishop of Kraków from 1635, diplomat, szlachcic, magnate in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

He was the great-grandson of William Cowper, who was created a Baronet, of Ratling Court in the County of Kent, in the Baronetage of England on 4 March 1642.

* Elizabeth Howard ( d. 11 March 1705 ), married on 1 October 1642 Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland

By the Restoration, the Spanish commander, Álvaro de Viveiros, resisted for eleven months ( from 27 March 1641 to 4 March 1642 ) behind the walls of the impregnable fortress, and only a concentrated task force commanded by Francisco Ornelas da Câmara and João de Bettencourt were able to defeat the commander.

Abdülhamid I, Abdul Hamid I or Abd Al-Hamid I ( Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد اول ` Abdü ’ l-Ḥamīd-i evvel ), which translates to the Servant of God ( March 20, 1725 – April 7, 1789 ), was the 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Bayezid I ( Ottoman: بايزيد اول, Turkish: Beyazıt, nicknamed Yıldırım ( Ottoman: ییلدیرم ), " the Thunderbolt "; 1354 – March 8, 1403 ) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1389 to 1402.

/ Murat I ) ( March or June 29, 1326, Sogut or Bursa – June 15, 1389, Battle of Kosovo Polje ) () was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1361 to 1389.

Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb (, Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb, Kurdish: سه ‌ لاحه ‌ دین ئه ‌ یوبی, Selah ' edînê Eyubî ) ( 1137 / 1138 – March 4, 1193 ), better known in the Western world as Saladin, was a Kurdish Muslim, who became the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria, and founded the Ayyubid dynasty .< ref name =" Minorsky "> A number of contemporary sources make note of this.

* March 8 – Sultan Salahuddin of Malaysia ( d. 2001 )

* March 29 – Sultan Yahya Petra of Kelantan, the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong ( Head of State ) of Malaysia, dies in office.

* March 29 – Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, King of Malaysia ( b. 1917 )

* March 20 – Abd-al-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1789 )

* January 12 – March 16 – Caliph Al-Muqtafi successfully defended Baghdad against the coalition forces of Sultan Muhammad of Hamadan, and Atabeg Qutb-adin of Mosul

* March 23 – Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia, defending his lands against the invasion of Nur ibn Mujahid, Sultan of Harar, is killed in battle.

* March 30 – Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1481 )

* March – Muhammed III, former Sultan of the Emirate of Granada is blinded and found dead in a pool after an attempted coup to retake his throne from his brother Nasr.

* March – Muhammed III, Sultan of Granada ( b. 1256 )

* March 4 – Saladin, Sultan of the Kurdish Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt and Syria ( b. c. 1138 )

The Venetians held Thessaloniki until it was captured by the Ottoman Sultan Murad II on 29 March 1430.

* HH HIH Princess Rukiye Sabiha Sultan Hanım Efendi ( the Ortaköy Palace, Ortaköy, Istanbul, 19 March / 1 April 1894 – Istanbul, 26 August 1971 ), married to her cousin HIH Prince Şehzade Ömer Faruk Efendi ( the Ortaköy Palace, Istanbul, 27 / 29 February 1898 – 28 March 1969 / 1971 ), son of Abdülmecid II, at the Yıldız Palace, Istanbul, on 29 April 1920 as his first wife.

On March 15, 1079, Sultan Malik Shah accepted this corrected calendar as the official Persian calendar.

They were supported by different factions of the nobility in the Hungarian kingdom ; Ferdinand also had the support of his brother the Emperor Charles V. After defeat by Ferdinand at the Battle of Tarcal in September 1527 and again in the Battle of Szina in March 1528, Zápolya gained the support of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Sultan.

* March Cost – The Veiled Sultan

The Senussi, encouraged by the German Empire and Ottoman Empire, played a minor part in the First World War, fighting a guerrilla war against the Italians in Libya and the British in Egypt from November 1915 until February 1917, led by Sayyid Ahmed and in the Sudan from March to December 1916, led by Ali Dinar, the Sultan of Darfur.

Prince ( Vali Ahad-Shahzada ) Sultan ' Abdu ' l-Hamid Khan ( 6 March 1813-20 April 1825 ) ( s / o ' Aliyanab ).

The Treaty of Berlin was the final act of the Congress of Berlin ( 13 June – 13 July 1878 ), by which the United Kingdom, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Abdul Hamid II revised the Treaty of San Stefano signed on 3 March the same year.