Historical Events
The Boston Massacre
Mar 5 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die; later held up as early black martyr. Massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings.
Music History
Mar 15 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (14) completes his String Quartet No. 1 (K. 80), in its original three-movement form on 15 March 1770 while touring in Lodi, Lombardy, Duchy of Milan
Kant Appointed Professor
Mar 31 Immanuel Kant is appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Königsberg
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 2 Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French nobleman (Duke of Albufera), and military commander (Marshal of the Empire), born in Lyon, France (d. 1826)
- Mar 13 Daniel Lambert, English gaol keep and famous for his unusually large size (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death), born in Blue Boar Lane, Leicester (d. 1809)
- Mar 20 Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet, dramatist, and philosopher, born in Lauffen am Neckar, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1843)
- Mar 25 Carl Friedrich Ebers, German composer and arranger, born in Kassel, Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1836)
- Mar 28 Sophie Mereau, German writer, born in Altenburg, Germany (d. 1806)
Famous Deaths
Crispus Attucks (c. 1723-1770)
Mar 5 possible slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre at beginning of the American Revolution
- Mar 27 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian Venetian Rococo painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies at 73
