Historical Events
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Albin Francisco Schoepf, Polish-American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Podgórze, Kraków, Poland (d. 1886)
- Mar 1 Charles Champion Gilbert, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Zanesville, Ohio (d. 1903)
- Mar 4 Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
- Mar 7 Victor Masse, French composer, born in Lorient, France (d. 1884)
Ignacy Łukasiewicz
Mar 8 Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish engineer, businessman and inventor who built the 1st modern oil refinery and invented the kerosene lamp, born in Zaduszniki, Mielec, Austrian Empire (d. 1882)
- Mar 10 Willem Roelofs, Dutch painter and lithographer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1897)
- Mar 11 Allison Nelson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1862)
- Mar 13 Moritz von Strachwitz, German poet, born in Peterwitz, Silesia (d. 1847)
- Mar 14 Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (1843-89), born in Naples, Two Sicilies (d. 1889)
- Mar 16 John Pope, American Major General (Union Army), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1892)
- Mar 16 Marie-Rosalie "Rosa" Bonheur, French animalière painter (The Horse Fair; Buffalo Bill), and sculptor, born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1899)
- Mar 22 Ahmed Djevdet Pasha, Turkish minister of Education and Justice
- Mar 22 Isaac D. Fransen van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866)
- Mar 22 Seth Williams, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Augusta, Maine (d. 1866)
- Mar 29 Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter (landscape paintings), born in Namen, Belgium (d. 1895)
- Mar 31 Rafael Hernando, Spanish composer of zarzuelas, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1888)
Famous Weddings
Gioachino Rossini
Mar 16 Italian opera composer (The Barber of Seville) Gioachino Rossini weds 1st wife, opera singer Isabella Colbran, in Bologna
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