Historical Events Mar 22 Cardinal Reginald Pole becomes archbishop of Canterbury Mar 28 Karel V's son Philip II crowned King of Spain Mar 28 Origin of Fasli Era (India) Famous Birthdays Mar 7 Guillaume du Vair, French writer and thinker, born in Paris (d. 1621) Mar 18 Francois of Valois, French duke of Anjou, youngest son of French King Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, Duke of Brabant, (d. 1584) Famous Deaths Mar 19 Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70 Mar 21 Thomas Cranmer, English reformer, Archbishop of Canterbury (1533-55), burned at stake at 66 1555 History by Year 1557