What Happened in March 1860

Historical Events

Treaty of Interest

Mar 17 Six years after the forcible ending of Japan's isolationist policy by US Navy Commodore Matthew Perry, the Japanese Embassy arrives in San Francisco to sign a Treaty of Friendship

Actor Matthew Perry — Actor
Matthew Perry

Mar 21 US extradition treaty with Sweden

Event of Interest

Mar 21 English novelist George Eliot finishes her novel "The Mill on the Floss" in Wandsworth, London

Writer George Eliot — Writer
George Eliot

Mar 24 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Francisco, 89 days out of New York
Mar 27 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
Mar 28 First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins (New Zealand).
Mar 29 Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn" premieres in NYC

Famous Birthdays

Mar 2 Susanna M. Salter, 1st American female mayor and temperance leader (d. 1961)
Mar 3 John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (d. 1925)
Mar 11 Thomas Hastings, American architect (NY Public Library), born in NYC, New York
Mar 12 Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
Mar 13 Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer, born in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia (d. 1903)

William Jennings Bryan

Mar 19 William Jennings Bryan, American orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner", born in Salem, Illinois (d. 1925)

Mar 22 Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
Mar 27 Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar, born in Redding, Connecticut (d. 1924)
Mar 31 Isidor Traube, Hildesheim Hanover, German Chemist (founded capillary chemistry, research on liquids)

Famous Deaths

Mar 6 Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
Mar 14 Louis-Antoine Jullien, French conductor, dies at 47
Mar 17 Anna Brownell Jameson, Anglo-Irish historian and writer (Loves of the Poets), dies at 65
Mar 25 James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795)
Mar 28 Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer, dies at 73

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