Editing March 31 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1657]] &ndash; The [[Long Parliament]] presents the [[Humble Petition and Advice]] offering [[Oliver Cromwell]] the British throne, which he eventually declines.<ref>{{cite web |title=Oliver Cromwell, Kingship and the Humble Petition and Advice |url=http://www.olivercromwell.org/wordpress/?page_id=604 |access-date=2022-04-02 |website=olivercromwell.org |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* [[1706]] &ndash; The last session of history of the [[Catalan Courts]], the parliamentary body of the [[Principality of Catalonia]], ends. [[Catalonia]]'s [[Catalan constitutions|constitutional]] modernisation passed by the Courts aims to improve the guarantee of individual, political and economic rights (among them, the [[secrecy of correspondence]]).<ref>{{Cite book |author=Albareda Salvadó, Joaquim  |title=La Guerra de Sucesión de España (1700-1714) |year=2010 |pages=182–183}}</ref>
*[[1717]] &ndash; A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by [[Benjamin Hoadly]], the [[Bishop of Bangor]], preached in the presence of King [[George I of Great Britain]], provokes the [[Bangorian Controversy]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Benjamin Hoadly|title=The Nature of the Kingdom, Or Church, of Christ. A Sermon Preached Before King George I, at the Royal Chapel at St. James's, on Sunday, March 31, 1717|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LBMM0FuxbkwC&pg=PA1|year=1855|publisher=Unitarian Tract Society|page=1}}</ref>
*[[1761]] &ndash; The [[1761 Lisbon earthquake]] strikes off the [[Iberian Peninsula]] with an estimated [[Richter magnitude scale|magnitude]] of 8.5, six years after another quake destroyed the city.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Baptista, M. & Miranda, Jym & Luis, Joaquim|date=2006|title=In Search of the 31 March 1761 Earthquake and Tsunami Source|url=https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/article-abstract/96/2/713/146815/In-Search-of-the-31-March-1761-Earthquake-and?redirectedFrom=fulltext|journal=Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America|volume=96|issue=2|pages=713–721|doi=10.1785/0120050111|bibcode=2006BuSSA..96..713B|via=}}</ref>
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[American Revolution]]: The [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] orders the port of [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] closed pursuant to the [[Boston Port Act]].
*[[1814]] &ndash; The [[War of the Sixth Coalition|Sixth Coalition]] [[Battle of Paris (1814)|occupies Paris]] after [[Napoleon]]'s [[Grande Armée]] capitulates.<ref>{{cite web |date= |title=200 YEARS AGO: 1814: THE FRENCH CAMPAIGN, STEP BY STEP |url=https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/articles/200-years-ago-1814-the-french-campaign-step-by-step/ |access-date=2022-02-04 |website=Napoleon.org}}</ref> 
*[[1854]] &ndash; [[Commodore (United States)|Commodore]] [[Matthew C. Perry|Matthew Perry]] signs the [[Convention of Kanagawa]] with the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa Shogunate]], opening the ports of [[Shimoda, Shizuoka|Shimoda]] and [[Hakodate]] to American trade.
*[[1885]] &ndash; The [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]] establishes the [[Bechuanaland Protectorate]].
*[[1889]] &ndash; The [[Eiffel Tower]] is officially opened.<ref>{{cite book|author=Lucien Herve|title=The Eiffel Tower|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XJvlC5e8Hb8C&pg=PA91|year=2003|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|isbn=978-1-56898-372-1|page=91}}</ref>
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Philippine–American War]]: [[Malolos]], capital of the [[First Philippine Republic]], [[Capture of Malolos|is captured by American forces]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jerry Keenan|title=Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American & Philippine-American Wars|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofsp00keen|url-access=registration|year=2001|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-093-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofsp00keen/page/223 223]}}</ref>