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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; Swedish biologist [[Carl Linnaeus]] (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'']], the starting point of modern [[zoological nomenclature]], introducing [[binomial nomenclature]] for animals to his established system of [[Linnaean taxonomy]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Niles|last=Eldredge|author-link=Niles Eldredge|title=Life on Earth: A-G|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2002|pages=477–478}}</ref> Among the first examples of his system of identifying an organism by genus and then species, Linnaeus identifies the [[lamprey]] with the name ''Petromyzon marinus''.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Use of Numerals for Specific Names in Systematic Zoology|first=David Starr|last=Jordan|journal=Science|date=1911-03-10|volume=33|issue=845|page=372|doi=10.1126/science.33.845.370-a|pmid=17799876}}</ref> He introduces the term ''[[Homo sapiens]]''. (Date of January 1 assigned retrospectively.)<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/index.jsp?article=3&nfv=true|chapter=Article 3|title=International Code of Zoological Nomenclature|author=International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature|author-link=International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature|edition=4th|isbn=0-85301-006-4|year=1999|publisher=International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, c/o Natural History Museum }}</ref>
* [[January 20]] &ndash; At [[Cap-Haïtien]] in [[Haiti]], former slave turned rebel [[François Mackandal]] is executed by the French colonial government by being burned at the stake.<ref>Shelby T. McCloy, ''The Negro in the French West Indies'' (University Press of Kentucky, 2015) p40</ref>
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Russia]]n troops under the command of [[William Fermor]] invade East [[Prussia]] and capture [[Königsberg]] with 34,000 soldiers; although the city is later abandoned by Russia after the Seven Years' War ends, the city again comes under Russian control in 1945 during World War II and is now named [[Kaliningrad]].<ref>Herbert J. Redman, ''Frederick the Great and the Seven Years’ War, 1756–1763'' (McFarland, 2015) p191</ref>
* [[February 22]] &ndash; A fleet of 158 British Royal Navy warships, under the command of Admiral [[Edward Boscawen]], departs from [[Plymouth]] toward North America in an effort to conquer the French Canadian territories of [[New France]].  Many of the sailors die of nutritional deficiencies along the way, including the [[scurvy]] that kills 26 of the crew of [[HMS Pembroke (1757)|HMS ''Pembroke'']], captained by future world explorer [[James Cook]] on his first long voyage.<ref>Stephen Feinstein, ''Captain Cook: Great Explorer of the Pacific'' (Enslow Publishers, 2010) p28</ref>
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]], the famed English theologian who had assumed the presidency of what is now [[Princeton University]] only a week earlier, sets an example for students and faculty by publicly receiving an [[inoculation]] against [[smallpox]].<ref>"Edwards, Jonathan", by Douglas A. Sweeney, in ''Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) p770</ref> Unfortunately, the vaccine contains live smallpox; Edwards develops the disease and dies on March 22 at the age of 54.  
* [[March 16]] &ndash; Members of the [[Comanche]] Nation loot and destroy the Spanish [[Mission Santa Cruz de San Sabá]] (near modern-day [[Menard, Texas]]) and kill eight of the people there, including the mission leader, Father Alonso Giraldo de Terreros.<ref>Donald E. Chipman and Harriet Denise Joseph, ''Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas''  (University of Texas Press, 2010)</ref>