An onomastic calendar: March

• March 1: Louis the Pious was restored as Holy Roman Emperor in 834.
• March 2: Dirk VI becomes count of Holland in 1121.
• March 3: Dutch theologian Gijsbert Voet was born in 1589.
• March 4: Saint Adrian of Nicomedia was martyred in 306.
• March 5: David II of Scotland was born in 1324.
• March 6: Ferdinand Magellan arrives in Guam in 1521.
• March 7: Emperor Constantine declares Sunday a day of rest i n321.
• March 8: Urraca of León and Castile died in 1126.
• March 9: Saint Frances of Rome died in 1440.
• March 10: Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian mystic, died in 1315.
• March 11: Marie de France, Countess of Champagne, died in 1198.
• March 12: Cesare Borgia died in 1507.
• March 13: The bones of St Nicephorus were interred in Constantinople in 874.
• March 14: Catherine Cornaro, queen of Cyprus, sold Cyrpus to Venice in 1489.
• March 15: On this day in 44BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March.
• March 16: On this day in 1485, Anne Neville, queen consort of England, died.
• March 17: The feast of Saint Patrick.
• March 18: Edward the Martyr, king of the English, died in 978.
• March 19: Alexander III of Scotland died in 1286.
• March 20: Cecily of York, daughter of Edward IV, was born in 1469.
• March 21: St. Angela Merici was born in 1474.
• March 22: Ferdinand II commissioned Amerigo Vespucci in 1508.
• March 23: Margaret d’Anjou was born in 1430.
• March 24: Harun al-Rashid died in 809.
• March 25: Blanche of Lancaster was born in 1345.
• March 26: Conrad II was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1027.
• March 27: Rachel Akerman, Austrian poet, was born in 1522.
• March 28: Saint Theresa of Ávila was born in 1515.
• March 29: Arthur I of Brittany was born in 1187.
• March 30: Saint Quirinus of Neuss died in 116.
• March 31: Francis I of France died in 1547.

An onomastic calendar: October

• October 1: Edgar I was crowned King of the English in 959.
• October 2: Athalaric, king of the Ostrogoths, died in 543.
• October 3: Saint Francis of Assisi died in 1226.
• October 4: Saint Theresa of Avila died in 1582
• October 5: Alexios III of Trebizond was born in 1338.
• October 6: Samuel Tsar of Bulgaria died in 1014.
• October 7: Frederick I of Norway and Denmark was born in 1471.
• October 8: Demetrius Zvonimir was crowned king of Croatia in 1076.
• October 9: Denis, the Poet King of Portugal, was born in 1261.
• October 10: Pope Valentine died in 827.
• October 11: Pope Boniface died in 1303.
• October 12: Edwin King of Northumbria was killed in battle in 632/633.
• October 13: Eleanor, Queen of Castile, was born in 1162.
• October 14: William the Bastard won the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
• October 15: Pope Gregory XIII’s calendrical reform came into use in 1582.
• October 16: Jadwiga was crowned King of Poland in 1384.
• October 17: St. Ivo of Kermartin was born in 1253.
• October 18: Dagobert I was crowned king of the Franks in 629.
• October 19: St. Frideswide died in 727.
• October 20: Henry X of Bavaria died in 1139.
• October 21: Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Straits of Magellan in 1520.
• October 22: Charles Martel, king of the Franks, died in 741.
• October 23: Sweyn III of Denmark is killed in 1157.
• October 24: (DMNES team was out of town w/o internet access).
• October 25: Henry V of England defeated the French at Agincourt in 1415.
• October 26: Feast day of St Demetrius of Thessaloniki, who died in 306.
• October 27: Emperor Constantine had his Vision of the Cross in 312.
• October 28: Margaret I of Denmark died in 1412.
• October 29: Conradin, king of Sicily and Jerusalem, died in 1268.
• October 30: Cesare Borgia hosted the Banquet of Chestnuts in 1501.
• October 31: Nikephoros I became Byzantine emperor in 802.