William Withering ( 17 March 1741 – 6 October 1799 ) was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis.

* March 21 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer ( b. 1741 )

* March 4 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer ( d. 1741 )

* March – Jethro Tull, English agriculturist ( d. 1741 )

Vernon block port ordered the March 13, 1741, while landed a contingent of troops and artillery destined to take the Fort de San Luis de Bocachica a few meters from where now stands the Fort of San Fernando de Bocachica, against that simultaneously fired British ships at a rate of 62 per hour cannon.

The largest action of the war was a major amphibious attack launched by the British under Admiral Edward Vernon in March, 1741 against Cartagena de Indias, one of Spain's principal gold-trading ports in their colony of New Granada ( today Colombia ).

When Vernon had been joined by Sir Chaloner Ogle with massive naval reinforcements and a strong body of troops, an attack was made on Cartagena in what is now Colombia ( 9 March – 24 April 1741 ).

Jean-Antoine Houdon () ( 20 March 1741 – 15 July 1828 ) was a French neoclassical sculptor.

Henry Jethro William Tull ( 30 March 1674 – 21 February 1741 ), known as Jethro Tull, was an English agricultural pioneer from Berkshire who helped bring about the British Agricultural Revolution.

Joseph II ( Joseph Benedikt Anton Michael Adam ; 13 March 1741 – 20 February 1790 ) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 to 1790 and ruler of the Habsburg lands from 1780 to 1790.

* 13 March 1741 – 4 April 1764: His Royal Highness Archduke Joseph Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, Prince of Tuscany

In 1741 he was sent from England to St. Helena to investigate charges of corruption brought against the acting governor, and from May 1741 until March 1742 he administered the affairs of the island.

Pieter Burman ( 1668 – March 31, 1741 ), often called Burmann, and known as the Elder, to distinguish him from his nephew, was a Dutch classical scholar.

He died on 31 March 1741.

The first children were admitted to the Foundling Hospital on 25 March 1741, into a temporary house located in Hatton Garden.

William Shirley ( 2 December 1694 – 24 March 1771 ) was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ( 1741 – 1749 and 1753 – 1756 ) and as Governor of the Bahamas in the 1760s.

* March 16 – Giuseppe Jannaconi, composer ( b. 1741 )

The outbreak of war with Spain and the imminent threat of war with France during the early stages of the War of the Austrian Succession led to Mathews ' return to active service after seven years of effective retirement, with a promotion directly to vice-admiral of the red on 13 March 1741.

In March 1741 it was captured in a brilliant night attack by the Prussian Army under General Prince Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, and like the majority of Silesia became part of Prussia under King Frederick II.

Hessenstein was made a count of the Holy Roman Empire ( in which his father's German realm, the landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, was located ) on 28 February 1741, and created a Swedish count on 29 March of the following year.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau ( 6 April 1671 – 17 March 1741 ) was a French poet.

Unable to resist, Chanda Saheb delivered the fort to Raghuji on 14 March 1741, on the day of Ram Navami.

Anna Leopoldovna of Russia () ( 18 December 1718 – 19 March 1746 ), also known as Anna Karlovna ( А ́ нна Ка ́ рловна ), regent of Russia for a few months ( 1740 – 1741 ) during the minority of her baby son Ivan.

Afonso II (; English Alphonzo ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin version ), nicknamed " the Fat " ( Portuguese o Gordo ), King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city.

Zaragoza, an important trade city on the Upper March of al-Andalus, made a bid for autonomy.

The seditious city of Zaragoza on the Upper March revolted in a bid for autonomy.

In the month of March in 1147 the fledgling King, Dom Afonso Henriques, defeated the Moors by capturing the city of Santarém.

The Allied ground advance into Germany reached Bonn on 7 March 1945, and the US 1st Infantry Division captured the city during the battle of 8 – 9 March 1945.

Daytime readings in Moundou, the major city in the southwest, range from in the middle of the cool season in January to about in the hot months of March, April, and May.

Wind storms can be frequent, bringing Saharan dust into the city during the months of March and April.

Unable, however, to resist the urging of Charles V, the pope, after proposing Mantua as the place of meeting, convened the council at Trent ( at that time a free city of the Holy Roman Empire under a prince-bishop ), on December 13, 1545 ; the Pope's decision to transfer it to Bologna in March, 1547 on the pretext of avoiding a plague failed to take effect and the Council was indefinitely prorogued on 17 September 1549.

Galerius arrived in the city later in March.

The Sardica paschal table confirms these complaints, for it indicates that the Jews of some eastern Mediterranean city ( possibly Antioch ) fixed Nisan 14 on 11 March ( Julian ) in AD 328, on 5 March in AD 334, on 2 March in AD 337, and on 10 March in AD 339, all well before the spring equinox.

At 15, he ran away from Geneva ( on 14 March 1728 ) after returning to the city and finding the city gates locked due to the curfew.

He gathered a large army and besieged Rome from February 537 to March 538 without being able to retake the city.

He was accorded numerous honours after the war, including the Musikpreis of the city of Munich in March 1949.

The short rainy season in March and April depends on a northerly counter current bringing moisture to the city: it has been shown clearly that weakness in the Benguela current can increase rainfall about sixfold compared with years when that current is strong.

22 March 2006: in terms of a Memorandum of Understanding signed by Nigeria ’ s federal Government on 16 March, the Guangdong Xinguang International Group is to construct a revolutionary “ fast ” rail ( RFR ) system from Lagos to the capital Abuja ( where there is no existing railway ) as well as light rail lines to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport from Lagos city and to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport from the Abuja city centre.

* 1975 – Green March begins: 300, 000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.

* NATIONAL BANK Cup: A two-week tournament in February and March between city teams, divided into the Gold League ( with seven teams ) and Silver League ( with six teams ).

Later, Rennes endured heavy bombings by the US and Royal Air Forces in March and May 1943, and again in June 1944, causing hundreds of deaths.

The insurgent First Philippine Republic was formally established with the proclamation of the Malolos Constitution on January 21, 1899 in Malolos, Bulacan and endured until the capture of Emilio Aguinaldo by the American forces on March 23, 1901 in Palanan, Isabela, which effectively dissolved the First Republic.

He knocked out 57 opponents, endured three defeats and held the championship from 1937 until March 1949, the longest span of a heavyweight titleholder.

East Pakistan had recently endured devastation as a result of the Bhola cyclone, and the Bengalis ' desperate plight increased in March that year when torrential rains and floods arrived in the region, threatening a humanitarian disaster.

In the meantime, another Russian contingent — 5, 000 men under Barclay de Tolly — endured great hardships in crossing the frozen gulf further north: they entered Umeå on March 24.

He was stricken with a heart attack while driving his car in March 1996 and endured a triple bypass operation.

On March 8, 1990, he beat the famed former world champion Rafael Limón in Atlantic City by an eight-round unanimous decision, but he endured what was probably an embarrassing moment for him when Limón stripped Mitchell of his trunks during round seven.

The rapid North Vietnamese advances of March and early April led to increased concern in Saigon that the city, which had been fairly peaceful throughout the war and whose people had endured relatively little suffering, was soon to come under direct attack.

It has endured a number of earthquakes: that of 1985, which measured 8. 1 on the Richter scale ; that of 1995, 7. 7 ; that of 2003, 7. 6 ; that of April 13, 2007, 6. 3 ; that of April 27, 2009, 5. 9 with epicenter in the state of Guerrero ; and that of May 22, 2009 at 14: 24, 5. 7 with a duration of 40 seconds and epicenter in Tehuacán in the state of Puebla ; that of March 20, 2012, 7. 8.

In 2001 prostate cancer was diagnosed, an illness he endured with great fortitude until his death on 17 March 2005, aged 71.

Highfield suburb was considered a security risk by the Rhodesian colonial government such that it was surrounded by a security fence, ( A fact quoted by Robert Mugabe during his speech in March 2007 to warn and remind the Opposition MDC party, that he was a hardened man and no push over because of imprisonment and how he had endured and overcome Restriction within a fence " like a goat.

Randolph limited the March on Washington Movement to black organizations to maintain black leadership ; he endured harsh criticism from others on the left for his insistence on black workers ' rights in the middle of a war.

Jenson first began working at the site in March 1975 and along with other women, endured a continuous stream of behavior from male employees, including sexual harassment, abusive language, threats, stalking and intimidation.

*" Bad Romance " by Lady Gaga endured the biggest drop from number one, when it fell to number 13 in the March 6, 2010 issue.

One of these many tests, the March 1, 1954 explosion of Castle Bravo, a U. S. thermonuclear device, was responsible for most of the vast radiation exposure endured by the local population.