What Happened in March 1872

Historical Events

Mar 2 Louis Riel goes into voluntary exile in St. Paul, Minnesota

Mar 5 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains

Mar 7 -8°F (-22°C) in Boston, Massachusetts
Mar 11 Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain
Mar 11 The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture
Mar 16 1st English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers defeat Royal Engineers, 1-0; Morton Betts scores winner
Mar 21 34th Grand National: John Page wins his second GN aboard 20/1 shot Casse Tete
Mar 22 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
Mar 26 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
Mar 26 Thomas J. Martin, of Alabama, receives a U.S. patent for a pipe and valve fire extinguisher system t

Mar 3 Willie Keeler, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (highest career AB-per-strikeout ratio in MLB history), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1923)

Mar 7 Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie), born in Amersfoort, Netherlands (d. 1944)

Mar 7 Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, Russian composer and teacher, born in Taganrog, Russia (d. 1964)
Mar 8 Paul Juon, Russian-Swiss violinist and composer, born in Moscow, Russia (d. 1940)
Mar 10 Felix Borowski, composer
Mar 11 Abraham van Stolk Jzn, lumber merchant/art collector
Mar 13 Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist and editor of the New York Evening Post, born in Wiesbaden, Germany (d. 1949)
Mar 17 Billy Quaife, cricketer (England batsman 1899-1902)
Mar 18 Frank Hoyt Losey, composer
Mar 19 Sergei Diaghilev, Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director
Mar 19 Anna Held, Polish-born French actress and singer (A Parisian Model), born in Warsaw (d. 1918)
Mar 20 Bernhard Seklas, composer
Mar 20 Karin Michaelis, writer
Mar 25 Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina)
Mar 28 Jose Sanjurjo, Spanish general (Morocco) and high director, born in Pamplona, Spain (d. 1936)
Mar 30 Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer
Mar 31 Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Russian dance master (Imperial Ballet)

Mar 4 Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
Mar 8 Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter, dies at 56
Mar 10 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66
Mar 12 Zeng Guofan, Chinese statesman, military general and Confucian scholar of the late Qing dynasty, dies at 60