What Happened in March 1847

Historical Events

Event of Interest

Mar 14 Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth" at the Teatro della Pergola, Florence

Composer Giuseppe Verdi — Composer
Giuseppe Verdi

Mar 18 1st Dutch public telegram
Mar 25 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"
Mar 29 12,000 US troops capture Vera Cruz, Mexico

Famous Birthdays

Alexander Graham Bell

Mar 3 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born British-American inventor (telephone), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1922)

Mar 4 Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
Mar 8 Carl von Bach, German mechanical engineer, born in Stollberg / Erzgeb (d. 1931)

Kate Sheppard

Mar 10 Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragette and the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, born in Liverpool, England (d. 1934)

Mar 14 Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes), born in Muritiba, Brazil (d. 1871)
Mar 19 Constantin Dimitrescu, composer
Mar 23 Alexandru D Xenopol, Romania, historian
Mar 27 Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), born in Königsberg, Germany (d. 1931)
Mar 31 Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer
Mar 31 Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)

Famous Deaths

Mar 9 Mary Anning, British fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist (Jurassic marine fossil beds of Lyme Regis in Dorset), dies of breast cancer at 47
Mar 28 Mariano Rodríguez de Ledesma, Spanish composer, dies at 67
Mar 29 Auguste De Polignac, premier France, dies at 66

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