Historical Events
- Mar 1 1st National Meeting in the Hague
Napoléon Appointed Commander in Chief
Mar 2 Napoléon Bonaparte is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French Army in Italy
- Mar 28 Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is 1st US-African church
Heptadecagon Construction
Mar 30 Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, discovers the construction of the heptadecagon
Egmont
Mar 31 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's dramatic play "Egmont" premieres in Weimar
Famous Birthdays
Famous Weddings
Napoléon Bonaparte & Joséphine de Beauharnais
Mar 9 Napoléon Bonaparte (26) marries his first wife Joséphine de Beauharnais (32), changing her name from Rose
Famous Deaths
- Mar 6 Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer, dies at 82
- Mar 17 Pieter Paulus, Dutch Patriot and President of the First National Assembly in The Hague, dies of a serious cold at 42
- Mar 19 Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
- Mar 19 Stephen Storace, English composer, dies at 33
- Mar 22 Gaspare Gabellone, Italian composer, dies at 68
