Historical Events
- Mar 6 Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
Famous Birthdays
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Mar 1 Polish pianist and composer (Concerto in F Minor), born in Żelazowa Wola, Duchy of Warsaw
Leo XIII (1810-1903)
Mar 2 256th Pope (1878-1903), born in Carpineto, Papal States
- Mar 9 Jean-Georges Kastner, French composer, born in Strasbourg, France (d. 1867)
- Mar 10 John McCloskey, 1st American cardinal and Archbishop of New York, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1885)
- Mar 10 Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886)
- Mar 15 Aernout Drost, Dutch historical novelist (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen), born in Amsterdam, Kingdom of Holland (d. 1834)
- Mar 27 Adolf Glassbrenner, German satirical writer, born in Berlin (d. 1876)
- Mar 27 William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, born in York, England (d. 1886)
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