Historical Events
- Mar 2 Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris
- Mar 3 1st US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
- Mar 3 Congress establishes US Mint
- Mar 4 First Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
- Mar 4 President Washington calls the US Senate into its first special session
- Mar 4 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
- Mar 10 John Stone of Concord, Massachusetts, patents a pile driver
- Mar 10 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy
- Mar 11 Samuel Mulliken is 1st to obtain more than one US patent
Tam o’ Shanter
Mar 18 Robert Burns poem “Tam o’ Shanter,” is published in the "Edinburgh Herald"
- Mar 21 Captain Hopley Yeaton becomes 1st commissioned officer in the Revenue Marine, later the Revenue Cutter Service, the forerunner of the modern US Coast Guard
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 6 Anna Claypoole Peale, American painter of miniatures, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1878)
- Mar 9 George Hayward, American surgeon, 1st to use ether (d. 1863)
- Mar 15 Charles Knight, English publisher (The Penny Cyclopaedia), born in Windsor, England (d. 1873)
- Mar 31 Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue, born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1862)
Famous Deaths
John Wesley (1703-1791)
Mar 2 English Christian theologian and co-founder of the Methodist movement, dies at 87
- Mar 14 Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)
