Sharing in the attack on the Electorate of Saxony, Albert was taken prisoner at Rochlitz in March 1547 by Elector John Frederick of Saxony, but was released as a result of the Emperor's victory at the Battle of Mühlberg in the succeeding April.

# Sofie ( 10 March 1485, Ansbach – 24 May 1537, Liegnitz ), married on 14 November 1518 to Duke Frederick II of Legnica.

# Frederick ( b. Dresden, 15 March 1504 – d. Dresden, 26 February 1539 ), Hereditary Duke of Saxony ; married on 27 January 1539 to Elisabeth of Mansfeld.

* John George, Duke of Jägerndorf ( 16 December 1577 – 2 March 1624 ) married Eva Christina of Württemberg ( 1590-1657 ), daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg and Sibylla of Anhalt.

* John Frederick of Brandenburg ( 18 August 1607 – 1 March 1608 ).

In March 1848, Prussia faced a revolution ( one of the revolutions of 1848 in various European nations ), which completely overwhelmed King Frederick William IV.

In March 1851, Frederick Scott Archer published his findings in " The Chemist " on the wet plate collodion process.

After the death of Emperor Henry VI, who had recently also conquered the Kingdom of Sicily, the succession became disputed: as Henry's son Frederick was still a small child, the partisans of the Staufen dynasty elected Henry ’ s brother, Philip, Duke of Swabia, king in March 1198, whereas the princes opposed to the Staufen dynasty elected Otto, Duke of Brunswick, of the House of Welf.

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 16 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1998 )

* March 10 – Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier ( b. 1826 )

* March 9 – Frederick III is crowned German Emperor.

* March 8 – George Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born military hero ( d. 1904 )

* March 13 – Upon the death of Christian VII, Frederick VI becomes king of Denmark.

* March 3 – John Frederick, Elector of Saxony ( b. 1503 )

* March 28 – King Frederick III of Denmark ( d. 1670 )

* March – The Frankfurt Parliament completes its drafting of a liberal constitution and elects Frederick William IV emperor of the new German national state.

* March 31 – King Frederick V of Denmark ( d. 1766 )

* March 25 – King Frederick I of Sweden ( b. 1676 )

* March 31 – Frederick, Prince of Wales ( b. 1707 )

* March 4 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.

* March 18 – Sixth Crusade: Frederick II crowns himself King of Jerusalem.

* March 25 – Frederick of Bohemia

Frederick Seitz ( July 4, 1911 – March 2, 2008 ) was an American physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics.

Later, after he had been crowned King of East Francia, Arnulf turned his old territory of Carinthia into the March of Carinthia, a part of the Duchy of Bavaria.

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

As the kingdom could no longer be without an effective ruler, Sigismund was crowned on 31 March.

He became Protodeacon of the Sacred College in November 1277 and as such, he crowned Popes Nicholas III on 26 December 1277 and Martin IV on 23 March 1281.

Viterbo was placed under interdict for the imprisonment of the cardinals and Rome was not at all inclined to accept a hated Frenchman as Pope, so Martin IV was crowned instead at Orvieto on 23 March 1281.

In 781, his three year-old son Louis was crowned king of Aquitaine, under the supervision of Charlemagne ´ s trustee William of Gellone, and was nominally in charge of the incipient Spanish March.

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.

He was elected German King in 1024 and crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on 26 March 1027.

* March 18 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia at the ancient city of Axum.

* March 3 – Hassan II is crowned King of Morocco.

* March 9 – Bahrām Chobin is crowned as King Bahrām VI of Persia.

* March 8 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.

* March 25 – Sancho II is crowned King of Portugal

* March 25 – In a ceremony in Holyrood Abbey, James II of Scotland is crowned at the age of six by Pope Eugene IV.

He was crowned Pope on 19 March 1513 at the age of 37.

Also taking place on this day is the crowning of the Road March King or Queen, where the singer of the most played song at judging sites over the two days of the Carnival is crowned winner, complete with prize money and usually a vehicle.

* March 25 – Iberian Union: Philip II of Spain crowned Philip I of Portugal.

Having secured the support of the nobility, Sigismund was crowned King of Hungary at Székesfehérvár on 31 March 1387.

Maximilian I ( 22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519 ), the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleanor of Portugal, was King of the Romans ( also known as King of the Germans ) from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 until his death, though he was never in fact crowned by the Pope, the journey to Rome always being too risky.

* March – Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor becomes the last to be crowned in Rome.

He was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March as King of Italy in Pavia in 1155, and finally crowned Roman Emperor by Pope Adrian IV, on 18 June 1155.