Historical Events
- Mar 13 Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Galotti" premieres in Brunswick
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 10 Friedrich von Schlegel, German romantic writer and critic (Lucinde), born in Hanover (d. 1829)
- Mar 27 Giovanni Liverati, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States (d. 1846)
- Mar 30 Johann Wilhelm Wilms, German-Dutch organist and composer (Wien Neêrlands Bloed - Dutch national anthem, 1815-1932), baptized in Witzhelden, Duchy of Berg (d. 1847)
Famous Weddings
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Mar 28 Charles Edward Stuart 'the Young Pretender' (52) marries by proxy Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern (20)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 2 Robert Joseph Pothier, French lawyer (influential writer on French Law), dies at 73
- Mar 11 Johann George Reutter, composer, dies at 63
- Mar 21 Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)
- Mar 22 John Canton, English physicist, dies at 53
- Mar 26 Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer and historian, dies at 68
- Mar 29 Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher, mathematician, and mystic (The New Church), dies at 84
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