Historical Events In March - 08
Thursday, 28 September 2023
1766 On March - 08 willem V (18) becomes Governor of United Provinces
1777 On this day in history 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 On this day in history gnadenhutten Massacre Ohio militia kills 90 Indians
1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre on this day in history.
1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre: Ohio militia kills 90 Indians on this day in history.
1783 On March - 08 gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer
1787 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery on this day in history.
1790 The French Assembly votes to continue slavery in French colonies on March - 08.
1799 On this day in history simon Cameron, Secy War (Union), died in 1889
1801 On March - 08 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 March - 08.
1817 On this day in history the New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1825 George William Martin, composer on this day in history.
1828 Johann Anton Sulzer, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.
1836 On this day in history matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General (Confederate Army)
1838 On March - 08 uS mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)
1839 On this day in history james Mason Crafts, US chemist (Friedel-Crafts-synthesis)
1840 On March - 08 franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor
1841 On this day in history oliver Wendell Holmes, Mass, 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32)
1843 Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer on March - 08.
1844 King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway on March - 08.
1847 Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente) on March - 08.
1853 Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels, Flemish composer (Parisina) on this day in history.
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 this day in history.
1855 A train passed over the first railway suspension bridge -- at Niagara Falls, NY on March - 08.
1855 The Niagara Suspension Bridge opens, linking Canada and the US; the world's first suspension bridge built to carry trains on this day in history.
1855 On this day in history 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
1859 On this day in history the birth of Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Author of 'The Wind In The Willows'
1859 Kenneth Grahame, author (Wind, Willows) on this day in history.
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