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14 March| 14 March 1800 | Rome [administration] | The Italian cardinal Luigi Chiaramonti, backed by the influential French cardinal Jean Maury, is elected as Pope Pius VII. | | 14 March 1801 | UK [political events] | William Pitt the Younger steps down as prime minister of Britain over King George III's refusal to consider the question of Catholic Emancipation (the removal of legal restrictions on voting and holding political office by Catholics). He is replaced by fellow Tory politician Henry Addington. | | 14 March 1848 | Papal States [law and government] | A constitution for the Papal States is promulgated reluctantly by Pope Pius IX, in response to the revolutions in the rest of Italy. | | 14 March 1879 | USA, Germany [births and deaths] | Albert Einstein, German-born US physicist who develops the theory of relativity, born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany (–1955). | | 14 March 1883 | Prussia, England [births and deaths] | Karl Marx, Prussian political theorist, economist, and sociologist whose ideas formed the basis of communism, dies in London, England (65). | | 14 March 1932 | [births and deaths] | George Eastman, US inventor, manufacturer, and philanthropist who introduced the Kodak camera, dies in Rochester, New York (77). |
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