What Happened in March 1855

Historical Events

Mar 6 Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to the poet Louise Colet

Mar 11 Bowery Boys gang leader William Poole aka "Bill the Butcher" is buried in Brooklyn with 155 carriages and 6,000 mourners

Mar 27 Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner patents kerosene

Mar 1 Paul Hines, American MLB outfielder (Triple Crown 1878, Providence Grays), born in Virginia (d. 1935)
Mar 12 John White, American organist and composer based in Germany, born in West Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1902)

Mar 13 American astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto) and founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, born in Boston, Massachusetts

Mar 24 American banker (Mellon Bank), industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mar 24 Olive Schreiner, South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman), born in Wittebergen, Eastern Cape (d. 1920)
Mar 27 Alfred Ewing, Scottish Physicist (magnetic properties of metals, hysteresis), born in Dundee, Angus, Scotland (d. 1935)
Mar 31 Alfred E. Hunt, founder of Alcoa (d. 1899)

Mar 2 Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies at 58
Mar 3 Robert Mills, American engineer and architect (Washington Monument on the National Mall), dies at 73 [1]

Mar 8 American gang member (New York City's Bowery Boys), dies of a gunshot wound at 33

Mar 17 Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, Spanish composer, dies at 65
Mar 20 Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b. 1788)
Mar 29 Henri Druey, Swiss politician and a founding father of constitutional democracy in Switzerland, dies at 55

Mar 31 English novelist (Jane Eyre), dies at 38