| 30601 | March 19 | Event | 1982 – Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom. |
| 30602 | March 19 | Event | 1987 – Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal he hands over control to Jerry Falwell. |
| 30603 | March 19 | Event | 1989 – The Egyptian Flag is raised on Taba, Egypt announcing the end of the Israeli occupation after the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the peace negotiations in 1979. |
| 30604 | March 19 | Event | 1990 – The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire. |
| 30605 | March 19 | Event | 2002 – Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election. |
| 30606 | March 19 | Event | 2004 – Konginkangas bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. A total of 24 people are killed and 13 injured. |
| 30607 | March 19 | Event | 2004 – A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the three crewmen are left in place, pending further investigations. |
| 30608 | March 19 | Event | 2004 – 3-19 shooting incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20. |
| 30609 | March 19 | Event | 2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed. |
| 30610 | March 19 | Event | 2011 – Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya. |
| 30611 | March 19 | Event | 2013 – A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq. |
| 30612 | March 19 | Birth | 1434 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443) |
| 30613 | March 19 | Birth | 1488 – Johannes Magnus, Swedish archbishop and theologian (d. 1544) |
| 30614 | March 19 | Birth | 1534 – José de Anchieta, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1597) |
| 30615 | March 19 | Birth | 1590 – William Bradford, English colonial politician, 2nd Governor of Plymouth Colony (d. 1657) |
| 30616 | March 19 | Birth | 1601 – Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter, sculptor, and architect (d. 1667) |
| 30617 | March 19 | Birth | 1603 – John IV of Portugal (d. 1656) |
| 30618 | March 19 | Birth | 1629 – Alexis of Russia (d. 1676) |
| 30619 | March 19 | Birth | 1641 – Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Syrian author and scholar (d. 1731) |
| 30620 | March 19 | Birth | 1661 – Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer and educator (d. 1727) |
| 30621 | March 19 | Birth | 1684 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766) |
| 30622 | March 19 | Birth | 1721 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish-Italian poet and author (d. 1771) |
| 30623 | March 19 | Birth | 1734 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1817) |
| 30624 | March 19 | Birth | 1739 – Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French lawyer and politician (d. 1824) |
| 30625 | March 19 | Birth | 1742 – Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian rebel leader (d. 1781) |
| 30626 | March 19 | Birth | 1748 – Elias Hicks, American farmer, minister, and theologian (d. 1830) |
| 30627 | March 19 | Birth | 1749 – Princess Louisa of Great Britain (d. 1768) |
| 30628 | March 19 | Birth | 1778 – Edward Pakenham, Irish general and politician (d. 1815) |
| 30629 | March 19 | Birth | 1809 – Fredrik Pacius, German composer and conductor (d. 1891) |
| 30630 | March 19 | Birth | 1813 – David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (d. 1873) |