What Happened in March 1882

Historical Events

Queen Victoria Escapes Assassination

Mar 2 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor

Queen of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria

Mar 3 NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings
Mar 4 Britain's first electric trams run in East London
Mar 6 Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king
Mar 11 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton, New Jersey

Nansen's Artic Voyage

Mar 11 Norwegian scientist and explorer Fridtjof Nansen sets out on his first expedition on a sea voyage to study Arctic zoology

Arctic Explorer and Diplomat Fridtjof Nansen

First Geneva Convention

Mar 16 U.S. Senate ratifies the Geneva Convention of 1864, legitimatizing the International Red Cross and the American Red Cross

Major European powers sign the first-ever Geneva Convention

Mar 18 Morgan Earp is assassinated by outlaws while playing billiards in Tombstone

Sagrada Familia

Mar 19 1st stone laid for the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí

Mar 23 The Edmunds Act (Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act) is adopted by the US to suppress polygamy. 1300 men are later imprisoned under the act
Mar 24 44th Grand National: Lord Manners aboard 10/1 shot Seaman wins in heavy snow and freezing conditions

Koch Discovers Tuberculosis and Germs

Mar 24 German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), and establishes germ theory

Mar 25 1st demonstration of pancake making, held at a department store in NYC
Mar 29 Knights of Columbus chartered for Catholic men

Events in 1882

Famous Birthdays

Mar 1 Gwen Lally, English pageant master and actress (only played male roles), born in London, England (d. 1963) [1]
Mar 1 Ida Moore, American character actress (Mr. Music; Ma and Pa Kettle; Desk Set), born in Altoona, Kansas (d. 1964)
Mar 2 Wallis Clark, British-American stage and screen actor (Penny Serenade; Great Guy; Postal Inspector; Easy Money), born in Essex, England (d. 1961)
Mar 3 Charles Ponzi [Carlo], Italian con-man (Ponzi scheme in the US), born in Lugo, Italy (d. 1949)
Mar 3 Floris Prims, Flemish priest and historian (archivist of Antwerp), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1954)
Mar 4 Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat, government minister, and former President of the League of Nations (d. 1941)
Mar 6 F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
Mar 6 Geoffrey Mander, English industrialist (Mander Brothers Ltd.), born in Wolverhampton, England (d. 1962)
Mar 6 Guy Kibbee, American actor (Big Shot), born in El Paso, Texas (d. 1956)
Mar 14 Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (Sierpinski triangle), born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland (d. 1969)
Mar 16 Jim Lightbody, American athlete (Olympic gold 800m, 1500m, 2590m Steeplechase 1904), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1953)
Mar 18 Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer, pedagogue (Venice Liceo Musicale, 1932-52), and musicologist (Claudio Monteverdi, Antonio Vivaldi), born in Venice, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1973)
Mar 19 Gaston Lachaise, American sculptor (Standing Woman), born in Paris, France (d. 1935)
Mar 20 René Coty, French politician and President of France (1954-59), born in Le Harve, France (d. 1960) [1]
Mar 23 C. Montague Shaw, Australian actor (Buck Rogers; Zorro's Fighting Legion), born in Adelaide, South Australia (d. 1968)
Mar 23 Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
Mar 25 Haydn Wood, English composer, born in Slaithwaite, England (d. 1959)
Mar 26 Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist, member of the Swiss Federal Council, born in Grenchen, Switzerland (d. 1940)
Mar 30 Melanie Klein, Austrian-British author and child psychoanalyst (object relations theory), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1960)