March 6

Following the death of Lepidus, the Roman emperor Augustus assumed the office of pontifex maximus, joining Rome's chief priesthood to imperial authority.

Colette of Corbie, French abbess and founder of the reformed Colettine Poor Clares, died at Ghent in the Duchy of Burgundy.

German optician and physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer, who mapped the dark lines in the Sun's spectrum now bearing his name, was born in Straubing, Bavaria.