What Happened in March 1864

Historical Events

  • Mar 1 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
  • Mar 1 Rebecca Lee in the US becomes 1st African American woman to receive a medical degree
  • Mar 5 1st track meet between Oxford & Cambridge

AppointmentAppointment of Interest

Mar 9 Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army

Union General and US President Ulysses S. Grant
Union General and US President
Ulysses S. Grant
  • Mar 9 26th Grand National: George Stevens wins his 3rd GN aboard 10/1 Emblematic; winning mare's full sister Emblem the race winner the previous year
  • Mar 10 Ullyses Grant is named commander of the Union armies
  • Mar 10 Red River campaign begun in Louisiana by Union forces
  • Mar 11 The Great Sheffield Flood: the largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield
  • Mar 14 Gioacchino Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle" premieres in Paris
  • Mar 14 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
  • Mar 15 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Lousiana
  • Mar 18 Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles drowning some 240
  • Mar 19 Opera "Mireille" premieres in Paris
  • Mar 21 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
  • Mar 23 Encounter at Camden, Arkansas
  • Mar 25 Battle of Paducah, Kentuckey (Forrest's raid)
  • Mar 29 Great Britain gives the Ionian Islands back to Greece
  • Mar 29 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia, Arkansas
  • Mar 30 Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas

Famous Birthdays

  • Mar 4 David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940)
  • Mar 12 W. H. R. Rivers, British psychiatrist (d. 1922)
  • Mar 13 Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter, born in Torzhok, Russia (d. 1941)
  • Mar 14 Casey [John] Jones, American railroad engineer who dies trying to save a train (Ballad of Casey Jones), born in Missouri (d. 1900)
  • Mar 15 Johan Halvorsen, composer
  • Mar 15 Leslie Stuart, composer
  • Mar 18 Karl M Lybeck, Finnish/Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten)
  • Mar 19 Charles Marion Russell, American artist (d. 1926)
  • Mar 23 Hjalmar Borgstrom, composer
  • Mar 23 Louis Glass, Danish composer, born in Copenhagen (d. 1936)
  • Mar 30 Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist/politician

Famous Deaths

  • Mar 3 Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21
  • Mar 4 Thomas Starr King, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity), dies
  • Mar 10 Maximilian II Jozef, King of Bayern (1848-64), dies at 52
  • Mar 17 Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 53
  • Mar 27 Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
  • Mar 30 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer, dies 52