Historical Events
- Mar 3 Congress increases US Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
Historic Event
Mar 3 US President Andrew Jackson and Congress recognize the Republic of Texas
President Inaugurated
Mar 4 Martin Van Buren inaugurated as the 8th President of the United States
Historic Event
Mar 12 British poet laureate Robert Southey writes in reply to 20 year-old Charlotte Brontë "Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be." [1]
- Mar 24 Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)
- Mar 1 William Dean Howells, American novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)
- Mar 1 Andrew Strath, Scottish golfer (British Open 1865), born in St. Andrews, Fife (d. 1868)
- Mar 7 Henry Draper, American astronomer (Moon, Orion Nebula), born in Prince Edward County, Virginia (d. 1882)
- Mar 12 Alexandre Guilmant, French organist (La Trinitié, 1871-901), composer and pedagogue (Schola Cantorum, 1894-1911), born in Meudon, France (d. 1911)
- Mar 14 Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (Expansive classification), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1903)
Grover Cleveland
Mar 18 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th US President (1885-89, 1893-97), born in Caldwell, New Jersey (d. 1908)
Famous Weddings
Felix Mendelssohn
Mar 28 German composer Felix Mendelssohn (27) marries Cécile Jeanrenaud (20)
