Historical Events
Pope Pius VII
Mar 14 Luigi Chiaramonti elected Pope Pius VII
- Mar 17 British warship HMS Queen Charlotte catches fire off the Tuscan Archipelago; 700 die
Electric Battery Discovered
Mar 20 Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London
- Mar 20 French army defeats Turks at Helipolis & advance to Cairo
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 2 Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet, born in Vyazhlya, Russia (d. 1844)
- Mar 3 Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist and paleontologist, born in Ziegelhausen (d. 1862)
- Mar 12 Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian (National Archives of Belgium), born in Paris, France (d. 1885)
- Mar 14 James Bogardus, American inventor and builder (made cast-iron buildings), born in Catskill, New York (d. 1874)
- Mar 16 Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
- Mar 25 Paulin Paris, French scholar and historian, born in Avenay, France (d. 1881)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 2 Christian Friedrich Schale, German organist, harpsichordist, and composer, dies at 86
- Mar 3 Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, German composer, dies at 64
- Mar 9 Dominique Della-Maria, French composer, dies at 30
- Mar 21 William Blount, American statesman and signer of the United States Constitution, dies at 50
- Mar 29 Marc René, Marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer, dies at 85
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