Historical Events
Historic Event
Mar 8 US Commodore Matthew C. Perry's second trip to Japan
- Mar 17 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Massachusetts
- Mar 20 Boston Public Library opens in Boston, Massachusetts as the first large free municipal library in the US [1]
- Mar 28 Great Britain and France declare war on Russia, expanding the Crimean War
- Mar 31 Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to US
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 4 Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
- Mar 8 Tom Horan, Australian cricket all-rounder (15 Tests, 1 x 100, 11 wickets; Victoria CA), born in Midleton, Ireland (d. 1916)
- Mar 14 Paul Ehrlich, German bacteriologist and physician (Chemotherapy, Nobel Prize 1908), Strehlen, Lower Silesia, German Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1915)
- Mar 14 Thomas Riley Marshall, 28th Vice President of U.S. (1913-21), born in North Manchester, Indiana (d. 1925)
- Mar 14 Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer, born in Bucharest (d. 1920)
- Mar 14 John Lane, British publisher (The Bodley Head), born in Devon (d. 1925)
- Mar 15 Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
- Mar 21 Alick Bannerman, Australian cricket batsman (28 Tests, 8 x 50s; NSW 1876–94), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1924)
- Mar 23 Alfred Milner, Giessen Germany, British governor (Cape colony)
- Mar 26 Braulio Dueno Colon, Puerto Rican composer, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico (d. 1934)
- Mar 31 Dugald Clerk, inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine)
