* March 5 – John George I, Elector of Saxony ( d. 1656 )

* March 20 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter ( b. 1656 )

* March 4 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander ( b. 1656 )

* March 30 – Guru Har Krishan, Eighth Guru of Sikhism ( b. 1656 )

James Ussher ( sometimes spelled Usher, 4 January 1581 – 21 March 1656 ) was Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625 and 1656.

On March 4, 1656, he performed the violin at the residence of Roger L ' Estrange, where John Evelyn was in attendance.

John IV (, ; 18 March 1603 – 6 November 1656 ) was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1640 to his death.

In a decree signed on 23 March 1656, Pope Alexander VII accepted practices " favorable to Chinese customs ", reinforcing 1615 decrees which accepted the usage of the Chinese language in liturgy, a notable exception to the contemporary Latin Catholic discipline which had generally forbidden the use of local languages.

It was actually written in the Spanish Netherlands, where Charles had been residing since March 1656 ; however, at the time of writing, England had been at war with Spain since 1655.

The school was first opened on 25 March 1656, during the politically unstable and volatile period of the English Interregnum, therefore, having received permission from Oliver Cromwell to found the school, William Adams sought to further ensure the school's continued existence by appointing the Master and Wardens of the Haberdashers ' Company as Governors in perpetuity.

* The Sun's Darling ( licensed 3 March 1624 ; revised 1638 – 39 ; printed 1656 ), with Dekker

According to the FCC, as of March 31, 2011, there are 1022 UHF commercial television stations, 360 VHF commercial television stations, 285 UHF educational television stations and 107 VHF educational television stations, plus 439 Class A UHF television stations, 76 Class A VHF television stations, 3043 UHF television translators, 1411 VHF television translators, 1656 UHF low-power television stations and 516 VHF low-power television stations.

Guru Har Krishan Sahib Ji ( ; 23 July 1656 – 30 March 1664 ) is the eighth of the eleven Sikh Gurus.

The project started in 1655 and was completed in March 1656.

Nicolas de Largillière ( October 10, 1656 – March 20, 1746 ) was a painter born in Paris, France.

Claude, chevalier, then count de Forbin-Gardanne ( 6 August 1656 – 4 March 1733 ) was a French naval commander.

The most prominent figure, who was unquestionably a Jew, was a Dr. Jacob Lumbrozo, who had arrived January 24, 1656, and who, in 1658, was tried for blasphemy, but was released by reason of the general amnesty granted in honor of the accession of Richard Cromwell ( March 3, 1658 ).

Finally able to accept the united government of the four towns, Coddington made the following oath in March 1656, " I William Coddington doe hereby submit to ye authoritie of His Highness in this Colonie as it is now united, and that with all my heart.

John George I ( German: Johann Georg I ) ( 5 March 1585 – 8 October 1656 ) was Elector of Saxony from 1611 to 1656.

* March 30 – Henry Hall, composer of church music ( born c. 1656 )

He devoted most of his life to researches among the archives of his native city, and in 1656 even obtained a licence to print his Paris ancien et moderne ; but on his death ( 21 March 1676 ) the whole work was still in manusript.

Franz Lefort ( Франц Яковлевич Лефорт in Russian ) ( December 23, 1655 ( January 2, 1656 ), Geneva – March 2 ( 12 ), 1699, Moscow ) was a Russian military figure of Swiss origin, general admiral ( 1695 ), and close associate of Peter the Great.

But though each of its members had asserted this right against the Union, the final Constitution which the Confederacy signed on March 11 -- nearly a month before hostilities began -- included no explicit provision authorizing a state to secede.

and `` Marmee '' March, like Sophie Szold, was the competent manager of her brood of girls, of whom the Marches had only four to the Szolds' five.

But the March girls had their counterparts in the Szold girls.

Henrietta could easily identify herself with Jo March, although Jo was not the eldest sister.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

Sadie, like Beth March, suffered ill health -- got rheumatic fever and had to be careful of her heart -- but that never dampened her spirits.

and, as in the March home, any young man who called on the Szolds found himself confronted with a phalanx of femininity which made it rather difficult to direct his particular attention to any one of them.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

And like Jo March, who saw her sisters Meg and Amy involved in `` lovering '' before herself, Henrietta saw her sisters Rachel and Sadie drawn outside their family circle by the attraction of suitors, Rachel by Joe Jastrow, and Sadie by Max Lobl, a young businessman who would write her romantic descriptions of his trips by steamboat down the Mississippi.

So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Outraged, he used the Advocate of March 7th for a denial, sending immediately to Santa Fe and Van Buren for documents to vindicate himself, and demanding that Woodruff reveal the name of this perfidious slanderer who disguised himself under a pastoral pseudonym.

With his wife and three or more children he arrived in Boston in March, 1637, and soon found it was no place for anyone looking for liberty of conscience.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

The fifteenth name was ( Thomas ) Baldwin, admitted to Christ's 4 March 1625 under Alsop.

The apartment where we were talking that afternoon in March faced onto the street Garibaldi's men had charged up and along.

Coupling its own budget of $83,750 with a $30,000 state grant authorized by Gov. Vandiver, the group expects to sign a contract in March with Georgia Tech..

Corroborating Mr. Hodges' figures was the Federal Reserve Board's report of the large sales increase in the nation's department stores for the week ending March 4.

Initial claims for jobless benefits were said to have dropped by 8,100 in the week ending March 4.

Miami, Fla., March 17.

It will be at the museum until March 30.

The only original works attempting to reach any stature: Tennessee Williams' disappointing domestic comedy, Period Of Adjustment, and Arthur Laurents' clever but empty Invitation To A March.

many of us in public relations were flattered that Richard L. Tobin chose to devote his editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public Relations Association.

I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.