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What Happened in March 1740

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Historical Events

Whitefield's Bethesda Orphanage

Mar 25 Construction begins on evangelist George Whitefield's Bethesda Orphanage in Georgia

Anglican Preacher George Whitefield

Famous Birthdays

  • Mar 4 Giovanni Meli, Siclian poet (Buccolica), born in Palermo (d. 1815)
  • Mar 19 Johann Georg Roser, Austrian composer and kapellmeister, born in Naarn im Machland, Upper Austria (d. 1797)
  • Mar 24 John Antes, American composer and missionary, born in Frederick, Pennsylvania (d. 1811)
Born in 1740

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