Historical Events
- Mar 6 Treaty of Rastatt signed by Austria and France ending hostilities between them during the War of the Spanish Succession
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 8 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of J. S. Bach, born in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1788)
- Mar 24 Carlo Giovanni Testori, Italian violinist, composer, pedagogue, and musicologist (La musica raggionata), born in Vercelli, Kingdom of Venice (d. 1782)
- Mar 27 Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian, born in Venice (d. 1795)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 27 Anton Ulrich, German Duke of Brunswick and poet, dies at 80
- Mar 27 Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, queen of Denmark and Norway (1670-99), dies at 63
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