Events

• French kill Miami chief, fortify the Ohio Valley region with forts from Lake Erie
  Lake Erie
  Lake Erie is the fourth largest lake of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the tenth largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has the shortest average water residence time. It is bounded on the north by the...
  
   to the forks of the Ohio River
  Ohio River
  The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. At the confluence, the Ohio is even bigger than the Mississippi and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, including the Allegheny River further upstream...
  
  
• Canada's first newspaper, the weekly Halifax Gazette
  Halifax Gazette
  The Halifax Gazette was Canada's first newspaper, established on March 23, 1752 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, it was published weekly by John Bushell...
  
  , appears (March 23).
• La Corne
  Louis de la Corne, Chevalier de la Corne
  Louis de la Corne or Louis Chapt, Chevalier de la Corne was born at Fort Frontenac in what is now Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and began his career in the colonial regular troops as a second ensign in 1722 and was made full ensign five years later.He married in 1728 and began investing heavily in...
  
   began a three-year appointment as the western commander of the poste de l’Ouest
• The British Empire
  British Empire
  The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height, it was the...
  
   adopts the Gregorian calendar
  Gregorian calendar
  The Gregorian calendar, also known as the Western calendar, or Christian calendar, is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by a decree signed on 24 February 1582, a papal bull known by its opening words Inter...
  
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Births

• February 25 - John Graves Simcoe
  John Graves Simcoe
  John Graves Simcoe was a British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791–1796. Then frontier, this was modern-day southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior...
  
  , first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada (d.1806
  1806 in Canada
  -Events:* Minor trouble arises after 1806 when a governor attempts to anglicize Lower Canada, but he is able to quell dissent if not to achieve his goal.* Russian-American Company Company collects otter pelts from Alaska to Spanish California....
  
  )

Deaths

• Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière
  Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière
  Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière was a French admiral and Governor General of New France from March 1, 1746 until his death in 1752.De la Jonquière was born near Albi...
  
  , governor general of New France, on March 17 (born 1685)