* March 19 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish physician and author ( d. 1771 )

Struensee held absolute sway for ten months, between 20 March 1771 and 16 January 1772.

In March 1771 Mendelssohn's health deteriorated so badly that Marcus Elieser Bloch, his doctor, decided his patient had to give up philosophy, at least temporarily.

Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke ( 22 March 1771 – 27 June 1848 ) was a German author and reformer.

Bedford County was created on March 9, 1771 from part of Cumberland County and named in honor of the Fort Bedford.

The county was organized at Amherst on March 19, 1771.

On March 3, 1777, Dwight married Mary Woolsey ( 1754 – 1777 ), the daughter of New York merchant and banker Benjamin Woolsey ( 1720 – 1771 ).

An application was made to Parliament and the Act of Parliament received the Royal Assent on 28 March 1771, entitled An Act for making a navigable Cut or Canal from Chesterfield, in the county of Derby, through or near Worksop and Retford, to join the River Trent, at or near Stockwith, in the county of Nottingham.

Georg Friedrich Creuzer ( 10 March 1771, Marburg – 6 February 1858, Heidelberg ) was a German philologist and archaeologist.

* March 7-Rahel Varnhagen, salon hostess ( born 1771 )

Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville KT, PC, FRS ( 14 March 1771 – 10 June 1851 ) was a British statesman, the son of Henry Dundas, the 1st Viscount.

He was born in Edinburgh on 14 March 1771, the only son of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and Elizabeth ( 1751 – 1843 ).

William Shirley ( 2 December 1694 – 24 March 1771 ) was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ( 1741 – 1749 and 1753 – 1756 ) and as Governor of the Bahamas in the 1760s.

There he died on 24 March 1771.

* March 19-Tobias Smollett, Scottish physician and author ( died 1771 )

* Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk: 12 June 1771 – 7 March 1779

In March 1771, Peggie died from tuberculosis.

Thomas John Dibdin ( March 21, 1771 – September 16, 1841 ) was an English dramatist and song-writer.

* Sir John Shelley-Sidney, 1st Baronet ( 18 December 1771 – 14 March 1849 ).

* March 3-James Bardin Palmer, land agent, lawyer, office holder, and politician ( born 1771 )

Baron Antoine-Jean Gros ( 16 March 1771 – 25 June 1835 ), also known as Jean-Antoine Gros, was both a French History and neoclassical painter.

It was elevated to vila ( small town ) on March 12, 1771 and turned city ( cidade ) on September 20, 1882.

Tried and sentenced to death in absentia on March 29, 1764, they were defended by Voltaire, and eventually exonerated in 1771.

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, GCB, GCH ( 9 March 1771 – 11 December 1829 ) was a British Army officer and a general officer during the Napoleonic Wars.

Following complaints of many ministers about the opinions coming from Hutchinson and her allies, the situation erupted into what is known as the Antinomian Controversy, resulting in Hutchinson's 1637 trial, conviction, and banishment from the colony, followed by a March 1638 church trial in which she was excommunicated.

The controversy took place over a period of about 17 months, from October 1636 until the end of Hutchinson's church trial in March 1638, but had its beginnings much earlier.

Shortly after Hutchinson's banishment, Coggeshall was expelled from the General Court and in March 1638, was also directed to leave Massachusetts.

Hutchinson's eighth child with his first wife Mary was born in 1817 ; Mary is thought to have returned to England in March 1819, and there was no record of her after that.

On 19 March, a constitutional referendum was voted on and passed reforming the laws surrounding the power and election of the presidency, limiting the presidency to two four-year terms, providing judicial supervision of elections, requiring the president to appoint a deputy, calling for a commission to draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election, and providing easier access to presidential elections by candidates ( 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature ).

In March 1994, the PGE created a constitutional commission charged with drafting a constitution flexible enough to meet the current needs of a population suffering from 30 years of civil war as well as those of the future, when stability and prosperity change the political landscape.

It was then announced from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada on 21 March 1946 that George VI had, by commission under the royal sign-manual and signet, approved the recommendation of his prime minister, Mackenzie King, to appoint Alexander as his representative.

Since March 4, 1963, Canada has a high commission in Kingston.

Following widespread criticisms of the system of ministerial government introduced in December 2005, the States assembly agreed in March 2011 to establish an independent electoral commission to review the make-up of the assembly and government.

On 21 December 1865 he was chosen vice-president of the diet, and in March 1866 became president of the sub-committee appointed by the parliamentary commission to draw up the Composition ( commonly known as the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ) between Austria and Hungary, of which the central idea, that of the " Delegations ," originated with him.

The issue was included in the provisional agenda of the meeting of the commission to be held in New York from 7 March to 21 April 2011 and recommendations pursuant to Article 76 of the Convention were made.

On returning from the continent he expressed a strong preference for the military profession, and a cornet's commission was accordingly obtained for him ( March 1756 ) in the 3rd Dragoon Guards.

Taft then began serving on the newly created United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1891 ; he was confirmed by the Senate on March 17, 1892, and received his commission that same day.

* March 1 – The USS Arizona is placed back in full commission after a refit.

In March 1951 Grissom received his pilot wings and commission as a second lieutenant.

By early Monday, March 31, 2003 City crews had dug six huge X's into the runway, putting the airport out of commission.

After failing to respond to numerous summons and subpoenas, the commission recommend a five-year suspension on March 18, 1968.

In March 2008 Eastwood and Shriver's non-reappointment to the commission on the expiry of their terms prompted the Natural Resources Defense Council ( NRDC ) to request a legislative investigation into the decision.

It was drafted rapidly by a commission of four eminent jurists and entered into force on 21 March 1804.

On March 28, 1794, the president of the commission which developed the metric system, Joseph Louis Lagrange, proposed in a report to the commission the names déci-jour and centi-jour ( deciday and centiday in English ).

In March 2008 Atwood announced that she had accepted her first chamber opera commission.

He obtained his commission on 12 March 1908.

On completion of aviation cadet training in March 1950, he received a pilot rating and a commission as a second lieutenant.

This commission ruled prior to Vermont's admission, which took place on March 4, 1791, but a small change they permitted has never been acted upon.

On March 3, 1964, Owen D. Adams was elected as a Republican to the historically Democratic Caddo Parish Commission, then known as the police jury ( equivalenty to county commission in other states ).

On August 1, 1837, King William I appointed a royal commission of inquiry ; the scheme proposed by the commission received the sanction of the Dutch Parliament's Second Chamber in March 1839, and in the following May the work was begun.

Tuckerton became a Port of Entry of the United States, but not the third port as is commonly believed, with Ebenezer Tucker appointed Collector ; his commission bearing date March 21, 1791 signed by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.