March 1848 in History

Events in History

Mar 3 American education reformer Horace Mann joins the US Senate, representing Massachusetts

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

Mar 29 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam

Mar 1 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, American sculptor and designer (1907 $20 gold piece)
Mar 18 Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1939)

Mar 19 Wyatt Earp, American frontiersman and marshal who participated in the gunfight at the OK Corral, born in Monmouth, Illinois (d. 1929)

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)

Mar 8 Confederate General James Longstreet (27) weds Maria Louisa Garland in Lynchburg, Virginia

Mar 3 Heinrich Olivier, German painter, dies
Mar 20 Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27
Mar 26 Steen Steensen Blicher, Danish poet and short-story writer (E Binddstouw), dies at 65

Mar 29 John Jacob Astor [Johann Jakob Astor] German-American businessman (first multi-millionaire in the United States), dies at 84