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Historical Events

  • Mar 5 Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia
  • Mar 7 22nd Grand National: Tommy Pickernell wins aboard Irish horse Anatis at 5/1
  • Mar 9 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington

Japanese Embassy to the US

Mar 17 Six years after the forcible ending of Japan's isolationist policy by US Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry, the Japanese Embassy arrives in San Francisco to sign a Treaty of Friendship

Commodore of the US Navy Matthew C. Perry

The Mill on the Floss

Mar 21 English novelist George Eliot finishes her novel "The Mill on the Floss" in Wandsworth, London

Writer George Eliot
  • Mar 21 US extradition treaty with Sweden
  • Mar 24 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Francisco, 89 days out of New York
  • Mar 27 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
  • Mar 28 First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins in New Zealand

The Colleen Bawn

Mar 29 Dion Boucicault's stage melodrama "The Colleen Bawn, or The Brides of Garryowen" at Laura Keene's Theatre, NYC

Actor and Playwright Dion Boucicault

Events in 1860

Famous Birthdays

  • Mar 2 Susanna M. Salter, 1st American female mayor and temperance leader, born in Lamira, Ohio (d. 1961)
  • Mar 3 John Montgomery Ward, American Baseball HOF pitcher (perfect game 1880; NL ERA leader 1878; NL strikeout leader & NL wins leader 1879; Providence Grays), born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (d. 1925)
  • Mar 5 Sam Thompson, American Baseball HOF right fielder (NL batting champion 1887 Detroit Wolverines; NL HR leader 1889, 1895 Philadelphia Quakers), born in Danville, Indiana (d. 1922)
  • Mar 11 Thomas Hastings, American architect (NY Public Library), born in New York City (d. 1929)
  • Mar 12 Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet and songwriter during "Golden Age of Neapolitan Song", born in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (d. 1934)
  • Mar 13 Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer, born in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia (d. 1903)
  • Mar 15 Waldemar Haffkine, Ukrainian bacteriologist (1st to develop and use vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague), born in Odessa, Russian Empire (d. 1930)

William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)

Mar 19 American orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner", born in Salem, Illinois

William Jennings Bryan
  • Mar 22 Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940)
  • Mar 27 Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar, born in Redding, Connecticut (d. 1924)
  • Mar 31 Isidor Traube, German chemist who founded capillary chemistry and researched liquids (osmosis, surface tension), born in Hildesheim Hanover (d. 1943)
Born in 1860

Famous Weddings

Willie Park Sr.

Mar 29 Willie Park Sr. marries Susanna Law in Inveresk, Scotland

Willie Park Sr.

Famous Deaths

  • Mar 6 (Justus Johann) Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist (Dresden Court Orchestra, 1821-50), composer, and teacher, dies at 77
  • Mar 14 Louis-Antoine Jullien, French conductor, dies at 47
  • Mar 17 Anna Brownell Jameson, Anglo-Irish historian and writer (Loves of the Poets), dies at 65
  • Mar 25 James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795)
  • Mar 28 Johann Ludwig Bohner, German composer, dies at 73


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