On This Day

March 1771 in History

Birthdays in History

  • Mar 10 Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian (Idea und Probe)
  • Mar 22 Heinrich D. Zschokke, German Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf), born in Magdeburg, Prussia (d. 1848)

Weddings in History


LoveWedding of Interest

Mar 26 Political activist Thomas Paine (34) weds second wife Elizabeth Ollive

Voice of the American Revolution Thomas Paine
Voice of the American Revolution
Thomas Paine

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