Historical Events
- Mar 31 Bellevue Hospital founded in a New York City almshouse - 1st public hospital in the US
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 23 Iman Willem Falck, Dutch colonial governor of Ceylon (1765-85), born in Colombo, Sri Lanka (d. 1785)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 16 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi [Draghi], Italian Baroque organist, composer (Il Prigioniero Superbo; La serva padrona (The Maid Turned Mistress); Stabat Mater), dies from tuberculosis at 26 [some sources indicate date as 17th]
- Mar 25 Nicholas Hawksmoor, English Baroque architect (known for his church architecture including the towers of Westminster Abbey), dies (b. 1661)
- Mar 26 Georg Balthasar Schott, German composer, dies at 49
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