Historical Events
- Mar 1 Pennsylvania becomes 1st US state to abolish slavery (for newborns only)
- Mar 26 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Leonard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-general of Neth Indies (1826-30)
- Mar 10 Juan José Landaeta, Venezuelan composer, born in Caracas, Venezuela, (d. 1814)
- Mar 17 Thomas Chalmers, Scottish minister and 1st moderator (Free Church of Scotland 1843-47), born in Anstruther, Scotland (d. 1847)
- Mar 18 Milos Obrenovic, Leader of The Second Serbian Uprising and Prince of Serbia (d. 1860)
- Mar 27 August Leopold Crelle, German inventor and mathematician (1st Prussian Railway), born in Eichwerder, Brandenburg, Germany (d. 1855)
- Mar 29 Jørgen Jørgensen, Danish explorer and adventurer (attempted to rule Iceland), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1841)