^B{^#!16!14 March^N! Feast day of St Matilda, St Eutychius, and St Leobinus.
^B{1492^B} Queen Isabella of Castile ordered the expulsion of 150,000 Jews from Spain, unless they accepted Christian baptism. ^B{1757^B} British admiral John Byng was executed by firing squad at Plymouth, for having failed to relieve Minorca from the French fleet. ^B{1864^B} English explorer Samuel Baker was the first European to see the lake he named Lake Albert. ^B{1885^B} Gilbert and Sullivan's ^I{Mikado^I} was first performed at the Savoy Theatre, London, UK. ^B{1891^B} The submarine ^I{Monarch^I} laid the first underwater telephone cable.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Georg Telemann, German composer, ^B{1681^B}; Mrs Isabella Beeton, English cooking writer, ^B{1836^B}; Maxim Gorky, Russian playwright and novelist, ^B{1868^B}; Albert Einstein, German-born Swiss physicist, ^B{1879^B}; Michael Caine, English film actor, ^B{1933^B}; Jasper Carrott, English comedian, ^B{1946^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}John Jervis, English admiral, ^B{1823^B}; Karl Marx, German philosopher, ^B{1883^B}; George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera, ^B{1932^B}; Nikolai Bukharin, Russian politician, ^B{1938^B}; Busby Berkeley, US film choreographer, ^B{1976^B}.
