Historical Events
- Mar 2 US Congress bans the slave trade within the US, effective January 1, 1808
Duke of Portland Becomes PM
Mar 2 William Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland becomes British Prime Minister for the second time after the fall of William Grenville's Whig government
Beethoven's 4th Symphony
Mar 5 1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B
Britain Abolishes the Slave Trade
Mar 25 British Parliament abolishes the slave trade throughout the British Empire; penalty of £120 per slave introduced for ship captains
- Mar 25 First fare-paying, passenger railway service in the world established on the Oystermouth Railway in Swansea, Wales
Canning Foreign Secretary
Mar 25 George Canning becomes British Foreign Secretary
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1898)
- Mar 7 Franz Graf von Pocci, German founding director of the Munich Marionette Theatre (Punch and Judy), poet, and illustrator of children's literature (Viola Tricolor: In Picture and Rhyme), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1876)
- Mar 14 Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and Norway, born in Milan, Italy (d. 1876)
- Mar 15 Gaetano Gaspari, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1881)
