From the spring of 1813 until March 1815 about 6500 American sailors were imprisoned at Dartmoor.

By the Anglo-Swedish alliance of 3 March 1813, it was ceded to Sweden for a brief period of 15 months.

The city became the centre of the German Liberation movement against Napoleon, and the gathering place for volunteers from all over Germany, with the Iron Cross military decoration founded by Frederick William III of Prussia in early March 1813.

* March 29 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer and pianist ( b. 1813 )

* March 8 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer ( b. 1813 )

* March 15 – Henry Bessemer, British engineer and inventor ( b. 1813 )

* March 25 – Robert Murray M ' Cheyne, Scottish clergyman ( b. 1813 )

* March – Tecumseh ( d. 1813 )

* March 16 – George Clymer, American politician and Founding Father ( d. 1813 )

In 1813 he was named ' Sovereign Prince ' of the Netherlands, and proclaimed himself King of the Netherlands and Duke of Luxembourg on 16 March 1815.

Sir Henry Bessemer ( 19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898 ) was an English engineer, inventor, and businessman.

# The Quadruple Alliance of March 1813 ( renewed on November 20, 1815 ); between the United Kingdom, Austria, Prussia, and Russia, aimed at upholding the settlement following the Napoleonic Wars: with France's admission in 1818, it became the Quintuple Alliance, though British government distaste for the other allies ' reactionary policies meant that it lapsed into ineffectiveness after the mid-1820s.

Even before Prussia declared war on France on 17 March 1813, it had agreed to an alliance with Russia to the detriment of Saxony and Poland at Kalisz on 22 February: the Duchy of Poland would predominantly come under Russian rule, whereas Prussia would be compensated for relinquished Polish territories with the annexation of Saxon territory.

David Livingstone ( 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873 ) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa.

David Livingstone was born on 19 March 1813 in the mill town of Blantyre, in a tenement building for the workers of a cotton factory on the banks of the Clyde River under the bridge crossing into Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Henry Bergh ( August 29, 1813 – March 12, 1888 ) founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ( ASPCA ) in April, 1866, three days after the first effective legislation against animal cruelty in the United States was passed into law by the New York State Legislature.

He died in March 1813 and was buried in the Officers ' Cemetery, Eve Leary.

Fran Miklošič ( also known in German as ) ( 20 November 1813 – 7 March 1891 ) was a Slovene philologist.

Robert Southey ( or ; 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843 ) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called " Lake Poets ", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843.

" He was buried next to Rebecca, who had died on March 18, 1813.

In 1802 Ussé was purchased by the duc de Duras ; as early as March 1813, low-key meetings were held at Ussé among a group of Bourbon loyalists, who met to sound out the possibilities of a Bourbon Restoration: such men as Trémouille, duc de Fitzjames, the prince de Polignac, Ferrand, Montmorency and the duc de Rochefoucault attended.

Union County was created on March 22, 1813, from part of Northumberland County.

Columbia County was created on March 22, 1813, from part of Northumberland County and named for Columbia, a poetic name for the United States that alludes to Christopher Columbus.

The military decoration called the Iron Cross which existed in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire and Third Reich, was established by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and first awarded on 10 March 1813 in Breslau ( now Wrocław in Poland ), during the Napoleonic Wars.

On 17 March 1813, Frederick William III – who had fled to the non-occupied Breslau – established the military decoration of the Iron Cross, backdated to March 10, late Queen Louise's birthday.

When Chernenko died in March 1985, Gorbachev assumed power unopposed.

The current Minister of Foreign Affairs is Datuk Seri Anifah Aman, who assumed office on 18 March 2008.

On 27 September 1941 Heydrich was appointed Deputy Reich Protector of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ( the part of Czechoslovakia incorporated into the Reich on 15 March 1939 ) and assumed control of the territory.

In March 2001, the ULP, led by Ralph Gonsalves, assumed power after winning twelve of the fifteen seats in Parliament.

* March 1981-Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Tommy Koh, assumed the Presidency of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea.

The Cold War began to wind down after Mikhail Gorbachev assumed power in March 1985.

On March 4, President Harding assumed office while the nation was in the midst of a postwar economic decline, known as the Depression of 1920 – 21.

On 18 March 1277, he bought her claim and assumed the title of King of Jerusalem, sending Roger of San Severino as his bailli to Acre.

On March 1, 2003, DHS absorbed the Immigration and Naturalization Service and assumed its duties.

These conflicts included a customs dispute with Austria-Hungary beginning in 1906 ( commonly referred to as the " Pig War "), the Bosnian crisis of 1908 – 1909 in which Serbia assumed an attitude of protest over Austria-Hungary's annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina ( ending in Serbian acquiescence without compensation in March 1909 ), and finally the two Balkan Wars of 1912 – 1913 in which Serbia conquered Macedonia and Kosovo from the Ottoman Empire.

However, after Kovač's term expired in March 1998 the Slovak parliament was unable to elect a successor, so Mečiar also temporarily assumed the role of acting president.

Victor Emanuel II ( Vittorio Emanuele Maria Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso ; 14 March 1820 – 9 January 1878 ) was king of Sardinia from 1849 until, on 17 March 1861, he assumed the title King of Italy to become the first king of a united Italy since the 6th century, a title he held until his death in 1878.

After the initial ownership declared bankruptcy, the Can-Am league assumed ownership of the franchise, but suspended the team's operations in March 2009 prior to what would have been a second season.

It was merged with the Corps of Engineers on 31 March 1863, at which point the Corps of Engineers also assumed the Lakes Survey District mission for the Great Lakes.

After Andrew Jackson assumed the U. S. presidency in March 1829, many competent Indian agents were replaced by unqualified Jackson loyalists, argues historian John Hall.

In March 1909, Charles H. Workman assumed control of the theatre, producing three new pieces, including one by Gilbert himself, Fallen Fairies ( music by Edward German ).

Nevertheless, Chamberlain assumed correctly that French officers in the region were ordered to act without fighting the British, and in March 1898, the French proposed to settle the issue – Bussa was returned to Britain, and the French were limited to the town of Bona.

Shortly before sunrise on March 22 on Route 13 between Dover and Woodside in Dover, Delaware, Stuart Pinkham ( aka Richard Stuart and Poor Richard ) assumed duties as driver.

Rather assumed the position upon Cronkite's retirement, making his first broadcast on March 9, 1981.

In April 1996 there was another refinancing and in March 1998 O ' Reilly bought the other 54 % of the company for £ 30 million, and assumed the company's debt.

There was also a post office named Longboat established on March 27, 1914, in the Sarasota County portion of the key, but it was discontinued on January 14, 1922, and its functions were assumed by the Sarasota post office.

Algansee Township assumed its current boundaries on March 25, 1846, when California Township was set off with a separate civil township government.

On March 6, 1838, Iosco Township was set off and with the southern portion being assigned to Lyndon Township, Unadilla assumed its present boundaries.

The 3902d Air Base Wing was inactivated on 1 March 1986, and the 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing assumed host-unit responsibilities for Offutt.