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.

* 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.

In March 1642, Sultan Ibrahim issued an ultimatum and Tsar Mikhail ordered the Cossacks to evacuate.

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.

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

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.

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..

Petitioner registered with Local Board No. 9, Boulder, Colorado, on March 17, 1952.

This illusion was described in a far-sighted editorial in The New York Herald Tribune, on March 5, 1947, in connection with the submission of the satellite peace treaties to the Senate.

On March 21, 1845 the bark Bashaw weighed anchor at New Orleans, while on the levee Henry and William Palfrey waved farewell to their father's former chattels who must have looked back at the receding shore with mingled regret and jubilation.

The former county school superintendent, George P. Callan, shot himself to death March 18, four days after he resigned his post in a dispute with the county school board.

McNair, 25, was seized March 20 with four Cubans and accused of trying to land a boatload of rifles in Pinar Del Rio, about 35 miles from Havana.

However, compared with March 1960 new car sales of 4,441, this March was off 23 per cent.

That March he began his political career with his first campaign for the Illinois General Assembly.

President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865

On March 4, 1789, the Articles were replaced with the U. S. Constitution.

On March 27, 2006, the Millennium Challenge Corporation signed a five-year, $ 235. 65 million compact with the Government of Armenia.

On March 30, 2010, a spokesman for the Egyptian Culture Ministry claimed it had unearthed a large red granite door in Luxor with inscriptions by User, a powerful adviser to the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut who ruled between 1479 BC and 1458 BC, the longest of any woman.

In March 1067, William took Ealdred with him when William returned to Normandy, along with the other English leaders Earl Edwin of Mercia, Earl Morcar, Edgar the Ætheling, and Archbishop Stigand.

Following the nomination of Maximinus as emperor, Alexander was assassinated ( on either 18 or 19 March 235 ), together with his mother, in a mutiny of the Legio XXII Primigenia at Moguntiacum.

At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.

Although strongly urged by moderates in Congress to sign the Civil Rights Bill, Johnson broke decisively with them by vetoing it on March 27.

Absalon died at Sorø Abbey on March 21, 1201, 73 years old, with his last will granting his personal holdings to the Abbey, apart from Fjenneslev which went to Esbern Snarre.

Thunderstorms can occur between October and March, and annual rainfall is 623 millimetres ( 24. 5 in ), with rainfall highest in spring and summer and lowest in winter.