March 14, 1800 James Bogardus, U.S. inventor/builder (made cast-iron buildings) March 14, 1800 Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII March 14, 1795 Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer March 14, 1794 Eli Whitney patents cotton gin March 14, 1768 Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer, dies at 58 March 14, 1760 Anton Filtz, composer, dies at 26 March 14, 1757 John Byng, English Admiral (Minorca), executed at 52 March 14, 1755 Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer March 14, 1743 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall) March 14, 1734 Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne March 14, 1727 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer March 14, 1726 Josef Antonin Stepan, composer March 14, 1692 Peter Musschenbroek, Dutch physician/physicist (Leyden jar) March 14, 1689 Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen March 14, 1682 Jacob I van Ruysdael, physician/landscape painter, dies at about 53 March 14, 1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer March 14, 1653 Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno March 14, 1647 Frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 63 March 14, 1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island) March 14, 1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony