Events in History
- Mar 1 Yellowstone becomes the world's 1st national park
Louis Riel's Exile
Mar 2 Louis Riel goes into voluntary exile in St. Paul, Minnesota
Historic Invention
Mar 5 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains
- Mar 7 -8°F (-22°C) in Boston, Massachusetts
- 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 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, of Alabama, receives a U.S. patent for a pipe and valve fire extinguisher system
Birthdays in History
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Mar 7 Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie, Composition with Red Blue and Yellow) and art theoretician, born in Amersfoort, Netherlands
Michael Joseph Savage (1872-1940)
Mar 23 Australian-born New Zealand politician and first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand (1935-40), born in Tatong, Australia
Deaths in History
- Mar 4 Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
- Mar 8 Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter, dies at 56
- Mar 10 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician and revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66
- Mar 12 Zeng Guofan, Chinese statesman, military general and Confucian scholar of the late Qing dynasty, dies at 60
- Mar 28 Humphrey Marshall, American politician and Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, dies at 60
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