Timeline March 1760

Events in March 1760 4

• 1760 – 1794 Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794) Died 5 April 1794, aged 34 French journalist and revolutionary whose pamphlets helped incite the storming of the Bastille in 1789. A close friend of Danton, he used his newspaper to criticize the excesses of the Terror. He was guillotined alongside Danton and other moderates.
• 1760 Great Boston Fire Fire destroys hundreds of buildings in Boston A fire that started near Oliver's Dock spread across much of Boston's waterfront district and destroyed nearly 350 buildings. It was the worst fire in the town's colonial history.
• 1760 Great Boston Fire Fire destroys hundreds of buildings in Boston A fire that started near Oliver's Dock spread across much of Boston's waterfront district and destroyed nearly 350 buildings. It was the worst fire in the town's colonial history.
• 1760 – 1846 Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) Died 26 September 1846, aged 86 Clarkson was an English abolitionist and a founder of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. His research and campaigning helped pass the Slave Trade Act of 1807 and the abolition of slavery across the British Empire.