Historical Events
Famous Birthdays
John Snow (1813-1858)
Mar 15 English physician who studied cholera and is considered the 'Father of modern epidemiology', born in York England
- Mar 18 Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and dramatist (Maria Magdalena), born in Wesselburen, Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1863)
David Livingstone (1813-1873)
Mar 19 Scottish explorer who was famously found by Henry Morton Stanley in Africa, born in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
- Mar 20 Matthias Keller, German hymn writer (O Farther un High), born in Ulm, Württemberg (d. 1875)
- Mar 21 James Strang, American religious leader (self-proclaimed King of the Mormons on Beaver Island, Michigan 1850-56), born in Scipio, New York (d. 1856)
- Mar 22 Gabriel René Paul, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1886)
- Mar 26 Thomas West Sherman, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1879)
- Mar 27 Nathaniel Currier, American lithographer (Currier & Ives), born in Roxbury, Massachusetts (d. 1888)
- Mar 29 John Letcher, American lawyer and politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia, born in Lexington, Virginia (d. 1884)
Famous Weddings
John Tyler
Mar 29 John Tyler (23) later 10th US President, marries 1st wife Letitia Christian Tyler (22)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 23 Princess Augusta Frederica of Great Britain, dies at 75
