Historical Events
Scientific Discovery
Mar 20 Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 2 Evgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (d. 1844)
- Mar 3 Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862)
- Mar 12 Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian
- Mar 14 James Bogardus, American inventor and builder (made cast-iron buildings), born in Catskill, New York (d. 1874)
- Mar 16 Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
- Mar 25 Paulin Paris, French scholar and historian, born in Avenay, France (d. 1881)
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