Mar 2 The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England
Mar 31 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy
Famous Birthdays
Mar 26 Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, Spanish theorist and composer, born in Las Herencias, Toledo, Spain (d. 1779)
Mar 31 Florian Wrastill, Austrian composer of sacred music, choir master, and Benedictine monk, born near Königgrätz, Bohemia [now Hradec Králové, Czech Republic] (d.1758)
Famous Deaths
Mar 3 Pierre Allix, French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75
Mar 8 Abraham Darby I, English ironmaster (1st to smelt iron ore with coke, pivotal figure in Industrial Revolution), dies at about 40
Mar 19 John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist
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