Events in History
Event of Interest
Mar 22 Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on American colonists, organized by Prime Minister George Grenville

George Grenville
- Mar 24 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers
Birthdays in History
- Mar 6 Jan Kops, Dutch agronomist/vicar
- Mar 7 Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)
- Mar 18 David H Chasse, Dutch baron/general (fought Napoleon at Waterloo)
- Mar 21 Henry Fagel, Dutch/English baron/diplomat
- Mar 27 Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologist, born in Munich (d. 1841)
Deaths in History
- Mar 3 William Stukeley, English physician and archaeologist (pioneered investigation of Stonehenge and Avebury), dies at 77