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Historical Event(s)
– Senator Daniel Webster gives his “Seventh of March” speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
– 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.
– California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
– The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
– The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation.
– History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand.
– Jagannath Temple, Nayagarh is built.
Who Were Born On ?
– Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1891)
– Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906)
– Oliver Heaviside, English physicist (d. 1925)
– Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1918)
– David Jayne Hill, American diplomat (d. 1932)
– Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912)
– Guy de Maupassant, French writer (d. 1893)
– Luigi Cadorna, Italian Field Marshal (d. 1928)
– Annie Smith Peck, American mountaineer (d. 1935)
– Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)