What Happened in March 1747

Famous Birthdays

Casimir Pulaski (1747-1779)

Mar 6 Polish military leader, known as "the father of American cavalry', born in Warsaw, Poland

  • Mar 31 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer (The Moon Has Risen), born in Lüneburg, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1800)

Famous Deaths

  • Mar 9 Jacob Campo Weyerman, Dutch painter and writer active during the Dutch Enlightenment, dies at 69
  • Mar 16 Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia, dies at 56
  • Mar 23 Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675)