Famous Birthdays
Casimir Pulaski (1747-1779)
Mar 6 Polish military leader, known as "the father of American cavalry', born in Warsaw, Poland
- Mar 31 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer (The Moon Has Risen), born in Lüneburg, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1800)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 9 Jacob Campo Weyerman, Dutch painter and writer active during the Dutch Enlightenment, dies at 69
- Mar 16 Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia, dies at 56
- Mar 23 Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier who served the Ottoman Empire and converted to Islam, dies at 71