Page 2: Historical Events In March - 08
Sunday, 16 February 2025
1766 Willem V (18) becomes Governor of United Provinces on this day in history.
1777 Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt on this day in history.
1778 On this day in history friedrich August Kanne, composer
1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre Ohio militia kills 90 Indians on March - 08.
1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre on this day in history.
1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre: Ohio militia kills 90 Indians on March - 08.
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 The French Assembly votes to continue slavery in French colonies on March - 08.
1799 On March - 08 simon Cameron, Secy War (Union), died in 1889
1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt on this day in history.
1813 On March - 08 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 March - 08.
1825 On this day in history george William Martin, composer
1828 Johann Anton Sulzer, composer, dies at 75 on March - 08.
1836 Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General (Confederate Army) on March - 08.
1838 US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes) on March - 08.
1839 James Mason Crafts, US chemist (Friedel-Crafts-synthesis) on March - 08.
1840 Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor on this day in history.
1841 On this day in history oliver Wendell Holmes, Mass, 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32)
1843 On this day in history per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer
1844 On March - 08 king Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1847 On March - 08 karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente)
1853 Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels, Flemish composer (Parisina) on March - 08.
1854 On March - 08 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 March - 08.
1855 On this day in history the Niagara Suspension Bridge opens, linking Canada and the US; the world's first suspension bridge built to carry trains
1855 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls on March - 08.
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 March - 08.
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