Historical Events
- Mar 4 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands
- Mar 4 Washington's 2nd inauguration as US President, shortest speech (133 words)
- Mar 5 French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured
- Mar 18 Second Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
- Mar 18 The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann
- Mar 26 Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
Famous Birthdays
Sam Houston
Mar 2 Sam Houston, American born 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent state, born in Rockbridge County, Virginia (d. 1863)
Sam Houston
- Mar 3 Charles Sealsfield [Carl Anton Postl], Austrian-American writer, born in Popice u Znojma, Moravia (d. 1864)
- Mar 3 William Charles Macready, British actor, manager, and diarist, born in London, England (d. 1873)
- Mar 4 Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
- Mar 6 Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer
- Mar 11 Jan F Willems, Flemish writer/philologist
- Mar 12 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer
- Mar 28 Henry Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist, born in Guilderland, New York (d. 1864)