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, MA
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 FA Cup Final: Wanderers defeat Royal Engineers 1-0 at Kennington Oval in London
Mar 21 33rd Grand National: John Page aboard Casse Tete wins
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 patents fire extinguisher

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, composer
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)