Events in History
Assassination Attempt
Mar 2 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor
Voyage of Discovery
Mar 11 Fridtjof Nansen sets out on a sea voyage to study Arctic zoology
First Geneva Convention
Mar 16 U.S. Senate ratifies the Geneva Convention of 1864, legitimatizing the International Red Cross and the American Red Cross
- Mar 18 Morgan Earp is assassinated by outlaws while playing billiards in Tombstone
Historic Event
Mar 19 1st stone laid for the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, designed by Antoni GaudÃ
- Mar 23 The Edmunds Act (Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act) is adopted by the US to suppress polygamy. 1300 men are later imprisoned under the act
Scientific Discovery
Mar 24 German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), and establishes germ theory
Birthdays in History
- Mar 3 Floris H L Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp
- Mar 3 Charles Ponzi [Carlo], Italian con-man (Ponzi scheme in the US), born in Lugo, Italy (d. 1949)
- Mar 4 Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat, government minister, and former President of the League of Nations (d. 1941)
- Mar 6 F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
- Mar 6 Geoffrey Mander, English industrialist (Mander Brothers Ltd.), born in Wolverhampton, England (d. 1962)
- Mar 14 Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (Sierpinski triangle), born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (d. 1969)
- Mar 19 Gaston Lachaise, American sculptor (Standing Woman), born in Paris, France (d. 1935)
- Mar 20 René Coty, Le Harve France, president of France (1953-58)
- Mar 23 C Montague Shaw, Adelaide Australia
- Mar 23 Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
- Mar 26 Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist, member of the Swiss Federal Council, born in Grenchen, Switzerland (d. 1940)
- Mar 30 Melanie Klein, Austrian-British author and child psychoanalyst (object relations theory), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1960)
Deaths in History
- Mar 24 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75