Mar 13 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
Famous Birthdays
Mar 2 Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, German-Swedish organist, composer, conductor, choirmaster, and educator (Studentsång), born in Oberschönau, Saxony (d. 1833)
Mar 22 Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp, Queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1818)