| 11 March 1536 | England [political events] | King Henry VIII of England presents a bill to Parliament for the dissolution of the 376 monasteries worth less than £200 per annum; the land thus gained is worth £32,000. The Court of Augmentations is established to administer former monastic property, superseding the Exchequer. |
| 11 March 1784 | India [treaties] | Britain signs a peace treaty with Tippu Sultan of Mysore, India, ending the Second Mysore War. |
| 11 March 1845 | New Zealand, UK [law and government] | Further Maori risings take place against British rule in New Zealand, following revolts in 1843 and 1844. |
| 11 March 1916 | [births and deaths] | Harold Wilson, Labour prime minister of Britain 1964–70 and 1974–76, born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England (–1995). |
| 11 March 1955 | Scotland, England [births and deaths] | Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, dies in London, England (73). |
| 11 March 1970 | Iraq [law and government] | Iraq recognizes Kurdish autonomy and gives Kurds a bigger say in central government, following a nine-year civil war. |
| 11 March 1974 | UK [industrial relations] | The state of emergency ends in Britain when the miners accept a pay deal giving them rises of £6 to £15 a week. |
| 11 March 1980 | Zimbabwe Rhodesia [law and government] | Robert Mugabe, leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), forms a coalition government in Zimbabwe Rhodesia, with Joshua Nkomo, leader of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), as minister of home affairs. |
| 11 March 1985 | USSR [political events] | Mikhail Gorbachev is named first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. He calls for more glasnost (‘openness’) in Soviet life and later pursues a policy of perestroika (‘reconstruction’). |
| 11 March 1990 | Lithuania [political events] | Lithuania declares its independence from the USSR. |
| 11 March 1990 | Chile [elections] | General Augusto Pinochet, dictator of Chile since 1973, hands over power to elected president Patricio Aylwin. |
| 11 March 1998 | Indonesia [anthropology] | Australian palaeontologists announce the discovery of 800,000–900,000 year-old stone tools made by Homo erectus on the Indonesian island of Flores. They suggest that H. erectus were seafarers and had the language abilities and social structure to organize the movements of large groups to colonize new islands. |
| 11 March 2003 | [crime and punishment] | The International Criminal Court, the world's first permanent tribunal to provide justice in cases of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, is formally inaugurated in The Hague, Netherlands, as 18 judges are sworn in. The USA continues to reject the court's jurisdiction. |
