Historical Events
Reform Act
Mar 1 Lord John Russell introduces the Reform Bill in the British House of Commons on the government's behalf to revamp the electoral system of England and Wales and increase the franchise
- Mar 2 John Frazee becomes 1st US sculptor to receive a federal commission
Edgar Allan Poe Court-Martialed
Mar 6 Edgar Allan Poe court-martialed and dismissed from West Point military academy for gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders [1]
- Mar 6 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula" premieres at Teatro Carcano in Milan, Italy
- Mar 10 The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria
- Mar 19 1st US bank robbery, the City Bank in New York robbed of $245,000
- Mar 29 Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniak rebel against Turkey.
- Mar 31 Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
- Mar 31 Quebec & Montreal incorporated
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
- Mar 3 George Pullman, American industrialist and inventor (railway sleeping car), born in Brockton, New York (d. 1897)
- Mar 6 Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (founded institutions, including a bank, to help the poor), born in Tecklenburg (d. 1910)
- Mar 6 Philip Sheridan, American general (fought Civil War for Union army, helped preserve Yellowstone Park), born in Albany, New York (d. 1888)
- Mar 7 John Bratton [Old Reliable], American physician and Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), born in Winnsboro, South Carolina (d. 1898)
- Mar 12 Clement Studebaker, American manufacturer of horse-drawn vehicles and later made early automobiles, born in East Berlin, Pennsylvania (d. 1901)
- Mar 14 Leon Leopold Lewandoski, Polish composer, born in Kalisz, Poland (d. 1896)
- Mar 15 Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary (d. 1881)
- Mar 15 Edward Aylesworth Perry, American soldier and politician (General under Lee for Confederate Army, 14th Governor of Florida 1885-89), born in Richmond, Massachusetts (d. 1889)
- Mar 20 Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881)
- Mar 23 Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)
- Mar 29 Amelia E. Barr, British-born American writer, born in Ulverston, Lancashire (d. 1919)
- Mar 31 Archibald Scott Couper, Scottish chemist (advances in chemical theory including bonding of carbon atoms), born in Kirkintilloch, Scotland (d. 1892)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 4 Georg Michael Telemann, German composer, dies at 82
- Mar 9 Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger, German playwright (Der Wirrwarr, oder Sturm und Drang) and novelist, dies at 79
- Mar 12 Johann Franz Volkert, Austrian composer, dies at 64
- Mar 26 Richard Allen, 1st African American ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church, dies at 71
