Editing March 14 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1647]] &ndash; [[Thirty Years' War]]: [[Bavaria]], [[Cologne]], [[France]] and [[Sweden]] sign the [[Truce of Ulm (1647)|Truce of Ulm]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Kenneth Meyer Setton|title=Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_XN51y209fR8C|year=1991|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=978-0-87169-192-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_XN51y209fR8C/page/n91 83]}}</ref>
*[[1663]] &ndash; According to his own account, [[Otto von Guericke]] completes his book ''Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio'', detailing his experiments on vacuum and his discovery of [[electrostatic repulsion]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Otto von Guericke|title=The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto Von Guericke|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a8voCAAAQBAJ&pg=PR20|date=6 December 2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-011-2010-4|pages=20}}</ref>
*[[1674]] &ndash; The [[Third Anglo-Dutch War]]: The [[Battle of Ronas Voe]] results in the [[Dutch East India Company]] ship ''Wapen van Rotterdam'' being captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010899007|title=Londenden 3 April|date=1674-04-03|work=Amsterdamsche Courant|access-date=2019-03-23|publisher=Mattheus Cousart |issue=15 |department=Engelandt|location=London|publication-place=Amsterdam|publication-date=1674-04-10|page=1|language=nl|trans-title=London 3 April |via=Delpher|ref={{harvid|Amsterdamsche Courant 10 April|1674}}}}</ref>
*[[1757]] &ndash; Admiral Sir [[John Byng]] is [[executed by firing squad]] aboard {{HMS|Monarch|1747|6}} for breach of the [[Articles of War]].<ref name="Byng" />
*[[1780]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]] forces [[Battle of Fort Charlotte|capture Fort Charlotte]] in [[Mobile, Alabama]], the last British frontier post capable of threatening [[New Orleans]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hamilton |first1=Peter Joseph |title=Colonial Mobile: An Historical Study, Largely from Original Sources, of the ... |date=1897 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin andcompany |page=255 |url=https://archive.org/details/colonialmobilea03hamigoog/page/n304/mode/2up |access-date=17 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[Eli Whitney]] is granted a [[patent]] for the [[cotton gin]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Howard B. Rockman|title=Intellectual Property Law for Engineers and Scientists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6B88P-32IIQC&pg=PA475|date=26 July 2004|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-471-69739-8|pages=475}}</ref>
*[[1864]] &ndash; Rossini's ''[[Petite messe solennelle]]'' is first performed, by twelve singers, two pianists and a [[Pump organ|harmonium]] player in a mansion in Paris.<ref>{{cite book | last = Hurwitz | first = David | author-link = David Hurwitz (music critic) | url = http://www.classicstoday.com/features/RossiniMesse.pdf | title = Petite Messe solennelle (Works of Gioachino Rossini, Vol. 3) | date = 2010 | publisher = classicstoday.com }}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; ''[[The Mikado]]'', a light opera by [[W. S. Gilbert]] and [[Arthur Sullivan]], receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.<ref>{{cite book|author=Frederick Wilse Bateson|title=The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uak8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA611|year=1940|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=611}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; The [[Gold Standard Act]] is ratified, placing the [[United States currency]] on the [[gold standard]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Allen |first1=Larry |title=The Encyclopedia of Money |date=2009 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-59884-251-7 |page=184 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X4kgDkYxGrcC |access-date=17 May 2020 |language=en}}</ref>