Historical Events
Joséphine's Husband Arrested
Mar 2 Alexandre de Beauharnais, first husband of Joséphine de Beauharnais, is arrested during the Reign of Terror (later executed)
- Mar 4 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands
- Mar 4 Washington's 2nd inauguration as US President, shortest speech (133 words)
- Mar 5 French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured
- Mar 14 Lieutenant Governor Simcoe of Upper Canada passes legislation for the first time against the importation of slaves, after a black female slave forcibly transported to New York state to be sold [1]
- Mar 18 Second Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France
- Mar 18 The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann
- Mar 26 Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
Famous Birthdays
Sam Houston (1793-1863)
Mar 2 American born 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent state, born in Rockbridge County, Virginia
- Mar 3 Charles Sealsfield [Carl Anton Postl], Austrian-American writer, born in Popice u Znojma, Moravia (d. 1864)
- Mar 3 William Charles Macready, British actor, manager, and diarist, born in London, England (d. 1873)
- Mar 4 Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
- Mar 6 Bernhard Joseph Klein, German sacred and secular music composer, and educator, born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1832)
- Mar 11 Jan Frans Willems, Flemish writer and philologist, born in Boechout, Belgium (d. 1846)
- Mar 12 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, Belgian military officer, painter, composer, and librettist, born in Bruges, Belgium (d. 1876)
Henry Schoolcraft (1793-1864)
Mar 28 American geographer, geologist and ethnologist who found the source of the Mississippi River, born in Guilderland, New York
Famous Deaths
- Mar 2 Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist, painter to the Danish court, dies at 81
- Mar 4 Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter and cartoonist, dies at 44
- Mar 20 William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1705)
- Mar 21 Johann Michael Schmidt, composer and theologian, dies at 51
- Mar 26 John Mudge, English physician (telescope mirrors) (b. 1721)
