1933 – Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.

1916 – Albert Einstein submits his paper, "The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity", which establishes his general theory of relativity, to the journal Annalen der Physik.

1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.

2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.

1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities, and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.

2025 – Israel launches widespread aerial bombardments and attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 404 people, including children.

1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.

1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.

1958 – The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite, which is also the first satellite to achieve a long-term orbit.

2020 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25%.

2014 – Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.

1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.

1939 – From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.

1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm itself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.

1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman Republic, by a group of senators takes place on the Ides of March.

1982 – The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London.

1961 – A USAF B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California.

1942 – Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.