Page 3: Historical Events In March - 25

1807  Slave trade in England abolished by the British Parliament.   

1807  1st railway passenger service began in England.   

1808  Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes).   

1811  Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism   

1813  USS Essex takes Neryeda, inaugural capture by U.S. Navy in Pacific   

1813  1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex   

1814  Netherlands Bank established   

1817  Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians.   

1818  Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862   

1820  Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack.   

1820  Xavier F M G, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope (in Rome)   

1821  Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day).   

1823  William Thompson Martin, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1910   

1823  Coelestin Jungbauer, composer, dies at 75.   

1825  Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch patriot/earl, dies at 63.   

1830  Julius Caesar, cricketer (prominent batsman for Surrey)   

1835  Friederike Blum, writer, dies   

1839  William Bell Wait, US, educated the blind.   

1847  Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland".   

1852  Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer," premieres in Munich.   

1852  Alexis Garaude, composer, dies at 73   

1856  A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine.   

1857  Frederick Laggenheim takes inaugural photo of a solar eclipse.   

1857  Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse   

1863  Skirmish at Brentwood TN.   

1863  The inaugural Army Medal of Honor awarded   

1863  1st Army Medal of Honor awarded.   

1864  Battle of Paducah KY (Forrest's raid)   

1864  Battle of Paducah, KY (Forrest's raid).   

1865  Battle of Bluff Spring FL.   

1865  inaugural Queensland Divorce Act is passed.   

1865  SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire and sinks, killing 400.   

1865  Battle of Bluff Spring, FL   

1867  Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor is born   

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1133  Henry ii: King of england (1154-89)   

1252  Konradijn hohenstaufen: [koenrad van zwaben], son of konrad iv   

1252  Conradin: Duke of swabia   

1259  Andronikos ii palaiologos: Byzantine emperor   

1297  Andronicus iii palaeologus: Byzantine emperor   

1297  Arnost of pardubice: Archbishop of prague   

1345  Blanche of lancaster: Wife of john of gaunt   

1347  Catherine of siena: Italian saint   

1223  Afonso ii: 3rd king of portugal (1211-23),   

1345  Death of Henry: 3rd earl of lancaster, english politician (b. 1281)   

1458  Death of Inigo lopez de mendoza: Spanish marquis of santillana/poet,   

1510  Death of Georges d'amboise: French archbishop of narbonne/rouen,   

1558  Marcos de niza: French franciscan explorer   

1561  Conrad lycosthenes: French-born german philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518)   

1603  Death of Ikoma chikamasa: Japanese warlord (b. 1526)   

1609  Olaus martini: Swedish archbishop of uppsala (b. 1557)