Events in History
- Mar 3 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed in Massachusetts
- Mar 5 Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
- Mar 17 Treaty of 1842: Wyandotte (Huron) Indian nation cedes 114,000 acres of land in Ohio and Michigan to US, in exchange for 148,000 acres west of the Mississippi
- Mar 30 Ether used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Georgia)
Birthdays in History
- Mar 1 Nicholaos Gysis, Greek painter (d. 1901)
- Mar 2 Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer (d. 1914)
- Mar 10 Ina Coolbrith, American poet laureate of California (1st poet laureate of any US state), born in Nauvoo, Illinois (d. 1928)
- Mar 18 Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
- Mar 30 John Fiske [Edmund Fisk Green], American historian and philosopher, born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1901)
Weddings in History
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Mar 26 Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi (34) weds Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro (20) in Montevideo
Deaths in History
- Mar 4 James Forten, African-American abolitionist and businessman who used his wealth to push for civil rights and the abolition of slavery, dies at 75
- Mar 6 Constanze Mozart, wife of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
- Mar 13 Henry Shrapnel, English Army officer and inventor (created the shrapnel shell), dies at 80
- Mar 23 Stendhal [Marie-Henri Beyle], French author (Le Rouge et de Noir, a Chartreuse de Parme), dies at 59
- Mar 30 Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755)
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