March
On this day in March:
- 2nd March 1860: an explosion at Burradon Colliery killied 76 men and boys.
- 3rd March 1859; opening of Tyne Dock by the North Eastern Railway Company.
- 4th March 1583; death of Bernard Gilpin; Rector of Houghton-le-Spring and 'Apostle of the North'
- 6th March 1806; birth of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning at Coxhoe Hall
- 8th March 1850; Sir George Renwick, politician and shipping magnate, born in Newcastle.
- 9th March 1761; Hexham Riots - over 50 killed in protests over the 1761 Militia Act
- 10th March 1999: opening of the renovated 1877 Union Rooms on Westgate Road, Newcastle.
- 13th March 1764; birth of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, at Howick; Prime Minister 1830-34.
- 14th March 2009; reopening of the refurbished Blyth Market Square.
- 17th March 1832: birth of Joseph Skipsey, the "Pitman Poet" in Percy Village, North Shields.
- 18th March 1929: opening of the Palladium Cinema, Claypath in Durham.
- 20th March 687; death of St Cuthbert, regarded as the patron saint of northern England.
- 20th March 1924: founding of the Northumberland and Newcastle Society.
- 20th March 1967; opening of the current Scotswood Bridge, which connects Newcastle and Blaydon.
- 22nd March 1775: Jack Crawford born in Sunderland; the Hero of the 1797 Battle of Camperdown.
- 25th March 2008: founding of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation for cancer research.
- 26th March 1997; the smaller stack of Marsden Rock, near South Shields, demolished by explosives for safety reasons.
- 28th March 2013: Redcar Beacon, 'Verticle Pier' opened to the public.
- 29th March 1847 the first station buit at Tynemouth by the Newcastle & Berwick Railway.
- 30th March 1296: captute of Berwick by the English in the "First Scottish War of Independence".
- 30th March 1925; disaster at Montagu Main Colliery, Scotswood, when 38 men and boys were killed by an inrush of water.
- 31st March 2003; completion of the Grainger Town Project, a major enhancement of Newcastle city centre.
