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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 7]] &ndash; Partial [[solar eclipse]], [[Solar Saros 146]], is visible in [[Antarctica]].
* [[January 25]]&ndash;[[January 26|26]] &ndash; [[Apalachee massacre]]: English colonists from the [[Province of Carolina]], and their native allies, stage a series of brutal raids against a largely pacific population of [[Apalachee]], in [[Spanish Florida]].
* [[February 28]] &ndash; Establishment of the first school open to African-Americans in [[New York City]] by Frenchman [[Elias Neau]].
* [[February 29]] &ndash; [[Raid on Deerfield]] ([[Queen Anne's War]]): [[French Canadian]]s and [[Indigenous peoples in the United States|Native Americans]] sack [[Deerfield, Massachusetts]], killing over 50 English colonists.
* [[February]] &ndash; In America, [[Mardi Gras]] is celebrated with the ''[[Mardi Gras in Mobile|Masque de la Mobile]]'' in the capital of [[Louisiana (New France)]], [[Mobile, Alabama]].
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|Prince Karl of Habsburg]], brother of Joseph&nbsp;I, the Holy Roman Emperor and a pretender to the throne of [[Spain]], arrives in Portugal on the English warship [[HMS Royal Katherine|HMS ''Royal Katherine'']] as part of [[George Rooke]]'s English fleet sailing into [[Lisbon]].
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: The English Navy ships HMS ''Kent'', HMS ''Bedford'' and HMS ''Antelope'' intercept two newly-built Spanish warships, ''Porta Coeli'' and ''Santa Teresa'' off of the coast of [[Cape Spartel]], as the Spaniards attempt to sail into the [[Strait of Gibraltar]].  The two Spanish ships are captured after a seven-hour battle and taken toward [[Lisbon]], but the ''Santa Teresa'' sinks along the way.