Page 2: Historical Events In March - 08
Friday, 11 July 2025
1766 On this day in history willem V (18) becomes Governor of United Provinces
1777 On March - 08 regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
1778 Friedrich August Kanne, composer on March - 08.
1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre Ohio militia kills 90 Indians on this day in history.
1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre on this day in history.
1782 On March - 08 gnadenhutten Massacre: Ohio militia kills 90 Indians
1783 On this day in history gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer
1787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery on this day in history.
1790 On March - 08 the French Assembly votes to continue slavery in French colonies
1799 Simon Cameron, Secy War (Union), died in 1889 on March - 08.
1801 On this day in history british drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
1813 On this day in history first concerto of Royal Philharmonic
1813 On this day in history 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic
1815 In Charlottetown PEI, Peter Byers, a black, sentenced to death for stealing five pounds; 2 weeks earlier his brother Sancho sentenced to hang for stealing a pound of butter and a loaf of bread on this day in history.
1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded on this day in history.
1825 On this day in history george William Martin, composer
1828 On March - 08 johann Anton Sulzer, composer, dies at 75
1836 On March - 08 matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General (Confederate Army)
1838 On this day in history uS mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)
1839 James Mason Crafts, US chemist (Friedel-Crafts-synthesis) on March - 08.
1840 Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor on this day in history.
1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mass, 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32) on March - 08.
1843 Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer on this day in history.
1844 On this day in history king Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1847 On this day in history karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente)
1853 On this day in history edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels, Flemish composer (Parisina)
1854 On this day in history uS Commodore Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan
1854 On this day in history tom Felix Horan, cricketer (Ireland Pioneering Aust all-rounder)
1855 A train crosses first US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls on March - 08.
1855 A train passed over the first railway suspension bridge -- at Niagara Falls, NY on this day in history.
1855 The Niagara Suspension Bridge opens, linking Canada and the US; the world's first suspension bridge built to carry trains on March - 08.
1855 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls on March - 08.
1859 The birth of Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Author of 'The Wind In The Willows' on March - 08.
1859 Kenneth Grahame, author (Wind, Willows) on this day in history.
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