Historical Events
- Mar 3 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D
- Mar 3 Richard Allen founded African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Mar 12 Theatre Royal in London's Dury Lane opens after being rebuilt
Historic Invention
Mar 14 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states
Eli Whitney
- Mar 22 Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
- Mar 23 Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine
- Mar 23 Lt-general Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland
- Mar 27 The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
- Mar 27 Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact
- Mar 28 Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
- Mar 28 Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 5 Jacques Babinet, French physicist/mathematician/astronomer
- Mar 5 Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
- Mar 16 Ami Boué, Austrian geologist (d. 1881)
- Mar 26 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and designer who figured importantly in the German Nazarene movement, born in Leipzig, Saxony (d. 1872)
- Mar 31 Thompson McKennan, American politician who served as the 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1852)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 4 Henri de La Rochejacquelin, French Royalist Army leader, dies at 21
Marquis de Condorcet
Mar 28 Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, French enlightenment philosopher and mathematician, is murdered or commits suicide in prison at 50
Marquis de Condorcet
- Mar 29 Marie-J-A-N C Condorcet, mathematician (Theory of Comets), dies at 50