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What Happened in March 1782

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Mar 8 Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 Native American

Pius VI Arrives in Vienna

Mar 22 Pope Pius VI arrives in Vienna to meet with Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II to address his ecclesiastical reforms

Pope Pius VI

Mar 23 Novel "Les Liaisons dangereuses" (Dangerous Liaisons) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos is published by Durand Neveu

Marquess of Rockingham Prime Minister

Mar 27 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain

British Prime Minister Charles Watson-Wentworth

Famous Birthdays

Mar 4 Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist and writer (Swiss Family Robinson), born in Bern (d. 1830)
Mar 14 Thomas Hart Benton, American politician, born in Harts Mill, North Carolina (d. 1858)

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850)

Mar 18 US Vice President (1825-32), born in Abbeville, South Carolina

John C. Calhoun

Mar 24 Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
Mar 25 Caroline Bonaparte, Queen consort of Naples and sister of Napoleon, born in Ajaccio, Corsica, Kingdom of France (d. 1839)

Famous Deaths

Mar 17 Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician, and physicist (10 time French Award), dies at 82
Mar 19 Louis-Henry Paisible, French composer, dies at 33

What Happened in 1782

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