Historical Events
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 7 Tommaso Marchesi, Italian composer, born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1852)
- Mar 16 Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836)
- Mar 24 Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, French composer and cellist, born in Toulon, France (d. 1838)
- Mar 26 Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician, astronomer and author (Marine Sextant), born in Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1838)
- Mar 28 Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general and engineer, born in Châteauroux, France (d. 1844)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63
- Mar 1 Luigi Vanvitelli [Louis van Wittel], Italian architect, dies at 72
- Mar 13 Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist, dies at 45
- Mar 24 Philip Dormer Stanhope [Lord Chesterfield], English statesman and letter writer, responsible for introducing the Gregorian calendar, dies at 78
