Historical Events Mar 8 Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established Famous Birthdays Mar 4 Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759) Mar 6 George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792) Born in 1706 Famous Deaths Mar 1 Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin, dies at 73 Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) Mar 9 German composer and organist (Canon in D), dies at 52 Feb 1706 History by Year Apr 1706 What Happened in 1706 The President Who Was Never PresidentJanuary 17, 1706