Historical Events
Battle at Horseshoe Bend
Mar 27 Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson defeats the Red Sticks, part of the Creek Indian tribe near Dadeville, Alabama
- Mar 30 Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification
- Mar 30 Napoleonic Wars: Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
- Mar 31 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 3 Charles Kensington Salaman, British pianist and synagogue music composer, born in London, England (d. 1901)
- Mar 5 Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889)
- Mar 8 Ede Szigligeti [József Szathmáry], Hungarian dramatist, born in Nagyvárad-Olaszi (d. 1878)
- Mar 9 Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet and painter, born in Moryntsi, Ukraine (d. 1861) [NS]
- Mar 16 Guildo Alary, Italian-born French composer, born in Mantua, (Napoleonic) Kingdom of Italy (d. 1891)
- Mar 22 Thomas Crawford, American sculptor (Babes in the Wood, Statue of Freedom on dome of US Capitol), born in New York City (d. 1857)
- Mar 28 Galen Clark, Canadian-born American naturalist and conservationist (discovered and helped preserve Mariposa's Grove of giant Sequoia trees), born in Shipton, Canada East (d. 1910) [1]
Famous Deaths
- Mar 26 Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician and freemason who proposed and became the namesake of the guillotine, dies of natural causes at 75
