Events in History
- Mar 6 The British First Fleet arrives at Australian territory of Norfolk Island to found a convict settlement
- Mar 21 Fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana
Event of Interest
Mar 21 Olaudah Equiano (aka Gustavus Vassa), a freed slave, petitions King George III and Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
George III
Birthdays in History
- Mar 1 Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician
- Mar 7 Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist who pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena, born in Châtillon-Coligny, France (d. 1878)
- Mar 10 Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (Das Marmorbild)
- Mar 12 Pierre J David [David d'Angers], French sculptor