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Historical Event(s)
– The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
– Senator Daniel Webster gives his “Seventh of March” speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
– American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
– The Great Fire of Cottenham, a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground under suspicious circumstances.
– Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
– The Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia.
– The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas’s claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas’s pre-annexation debt.
– First ascent of Piz Bernina, the highest summit of the eastern Alps.
– The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
– Jagannath Temple, Nayagarh is built.
Who Were Born On ?
– Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German pianist and composer (d. 1924)
– John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)
– Pierre Loti, French writer (d. 1923)
– Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (d. 1924)
– César Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)
– Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (d. 1921)
– David Jayne Hill, American diplomat (d. 1932)
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)
– Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)
– Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)