Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil…
14 March 1982
The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London
13 March 2013
The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
11 March 1708
Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation
10 March 1535
Spaniard Fray Tomás de Berlanga, the fourth Bishop of Panama, discovers the Galápagos Islands by chance on his way to Peru
9 March 1976
Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date