Pope Pius VII
Mar 14 Luigi Chiaramonti elected Pope Pius VII
- Mar 17 British warship HMS Queen Charlotte catches fire off the Tuscan Archipelago; 700 die
Electric Battery Discovered
Mar 20 Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London
- Mar 20 French army defeats Turks at Helipolis & advance to Cairo
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