March 08: Significance, Events, and How to Celebrate Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1777  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.   

1782  Gnadenhutten Massacre Ohio militia results in the deaths of 90 Indians   

1782  Gnadenhutten Massacre   

1783  Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer   

1787  Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery.   

1790  The French Assembly votes to continue slavery in French colonies.   

1799  Simon Cameron, Secy War (Union), died in 1889   

1801  British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt   

1813  inaugural concerto of Royal Philharmonic   

1813  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   

1817  The New York Stock Exchange is founded.   

1825  George William Martin, composer.   

1828  Johann Anton Sulzer, composer, dies at 75   

1836  Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General (Confederate Army).   

1838  US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes).   

1839  James Mason Crafts, US chemist (Friedel-Crafts-synthesis).   

1840  Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor.   

1841  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mass, 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32).   

1843  Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer.   

1844  King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway   

1847  Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente)   

1853  Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels, Flemish composer (Parisina)   

1854  US Commodore Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan   

1854  Tom Felix Horan, cricketer (Ireland Pioneering Aust all-rounder).   

1855  A train crosses inaugural US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls   

1855  A train passed over the inaugural railway suspension bridge -- at Niagara Falls, NY.   

1855  The Niagara Suspension Bridge opens, linking Canada and the US; the world's inaugural suspension bridge built to carry trains   

1855  1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls   

1859  Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Author of 'The Wind In The Willows' is born.   

1859  Kenneth Grahame, author (Wind, Willows).   

1861  St Augustine FL surrenders to Union armies.   

1861  St Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies   

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