Birthdays in History
Weddings in History
Thomas Paine
Mar 26 Political activist Thomas Paine (34) weds second wife Elizabeth Ollive
Deaths in History
- Mar 8 Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688)
- Mar 22 Gottlieb Rabener, German author (Vom Misbrauch of the Satire), dies at 56
- Mar 24 William Shirley, British Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (played an important role in Britain’s struggle against France for control of North America), dies at 76