Events in History
- Mar 8 Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 indians
- Mar 23 "Les Liaisons dangereuses" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos is published by Durand Neveu
Election of Interest
Mar 27 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain

Charles Watson-Wentworth
Birthdays in History
John C. Calhoun
Mar 18 John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson's Vice President (1825-32), born in Abbeville, South Carolina (d. 1850)

John C. Calhoun
Deaths in History
- Mar 17 Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and physicist (10 time French award), dies at 82