What Happened in March 1811

Historical Events

  • Mar 1 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500
  • Mar 1 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel
  • Mar 25 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism

Famous Birthdays

  • Mar 1 Robert Christie Buchanan, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1878)
  • Mar 7 Christian Heinrich Hohmann, German composer, born in Niederwerrn, Kingdom of Bavaria (d. 1861)
  • Mar 11 Marsena Rudolph Patrick, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Hounsfield, New York (d. 1888)
  • Mar 11 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, French astronomer (made calculations that proved existence of Neptune), born in Saint-Lô, France (d. 1877)
  • Mar 13 Camille Marie Stamaty, French pianist, composer, and teacher of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Camille Saint-Saëns, born in Département Rome, French Empire (now Rome, Italy) (d. 1870)
  • Mar 15 Robert Allen, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in West Point, Ohio (d. 1886)
  • Mar 20 George Caleb Bingham, American politician and painter (Country Election), born in Augusta, County, Virginia (d. 1879)
  • Mar 20 Napoleon II, son of Napoleon Bonaparte, Prince Imperial and King of Rome (never ruled France), born in Tuileries Palace, Paris, France (d. 1832)
  • Mar 21 Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (d. 1891)
  • Mar 23 (Carl Gottfried) Wilhelm Taubert, German pianist, conductor, and composer, born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1891)
  • Mar 30 Angelo Catelani, Italian composer, conductor, and musicologist, born in Guastalla, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1866)

Robert Bunsen (1811-1899)

Mar 30 German chemist who invented the Bunsen Burner, born in Göttingen, Westphalia, Rhine Confederation


Famous Deaths

Augustus FitzRoy (1735-1811)

Mar 14 3rd Duke of Grafton, British Prime Minister (1768-70), dies at 75

  • Mar 19 Frantisek Adam Mica, Bohemian composer, dies at 65