March 1860 in History

Events in History

Mar 5 Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia
Mar 9 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington

Japanese Embassy to the US

Mar 17 Six years after the forcible ending of Japan's isolationist policy by US Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry, the Japanese Embassy arrives in San Francisco to sign a Treaty of Friendship

The Mill on the Floss

Mar 21 English novelist George Eliot finishes her novel "The Mill on the Floss" in Wandsworth, London

Mar 21 US extradition treaty with Sweden
Mar 24 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Francisco, 89 days out of New York
Mar 27 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
Mar 28 First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins in New Zealand

Birthdays in History

Mar 2 Susanna M. Salter, 1st American female mayor and temperance leader (d. 1961)
Mar 11 Thomas Hastings, American architect (NY Public Library), born in NYC, New York (d. 1929)
Mar 15 Waldemar Haffkine, Ukrainian bacteriologist (1st to develop and use vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague), born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1930)

William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)

Mar 19 American orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner", born in Salem, Illinois

Mar 22 Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
Mar 27 Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar, born in Redding, Connecticut (d. 1924)
Mar 31 Isidor Traube, German chemist who founded capillary chemistry and researched liquids (osmosis, surface tension), born in Hildesheim Hanover (d. 1943)