What Happened in March 1780

  • W 1
  • T 2
  • F 3
  • S 4
  • S 5
  • M 6
  • T 7
  • W 8
  • T 9
  • F 10
  • S 11
  • S 12
  • M 13
  • T 14
  • W 15
  • T 16
  • F 17
  • S 18
  • S 19
  • M 20
  • T 21
  • W 22
  • T 23
  • F 24
  • S 25
  • S 26
  • M 27
  • T 28
  • W 29
  • T 30
  • F 31

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 Jose Landaeta, composer
  • 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)

Famous Deaths

  • Mar 20 Sir Benjamin Truman - English brewer (b. 1699/1700)
  • Mar 26 Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, dies at 66