Events in History
Event of Interest
Mar 3 American education reformer Horace Mann joins the US Senate, representing Massachusetts
Horace Mann
- Mar 4 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
- Mar 4 Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
- Mar 5 Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance
- Mar 7 In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
- Mar 11 Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government
- Mar 12 2nd Republic established in France
- Mar 15 A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
- Mar 23 The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
- Mar 24 State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam
- Mar 27 John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
Niagara Falls Stops Flowing
Mar 29 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
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Birthdays in History
Wyatt Earp
Mar 19 Wyatt Earp, American frontiersman and marshal who participated in the gunfight at the OK Corral, born in Monmouth, Illinois (d. 1929)
Wyatt Earp
- Mar 24 Honoré Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906)
- Mar 25 William Keith Brooks, American marine zoologist (anatomy and embryology of marine animals), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Mar 29 Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general and minister of War, born in Sheshurino, Russia (d. 1925)
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Mar 8 Confederate General James Longstreet (27) weds Maria Louisa Garland in Lynchburg, Virginia
James Longstreet
Deaths in History
John Jacob Astor
Mar 29 John Jacob Astor [Johann Jakob Astor] German-American businessman (first multi-millionaire in the United States), dies at 84
John Jacob Astor