Today in History for March 1840
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Months in 1840: January February April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 3 of 3
1st - Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France.
14th - Jose Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey," premieres in Madrid
23rd - Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 11 of 11
5th - Constance Fenimore Woolson, NH, writer (Jupiter Lights)
8th - Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor
11th - Edmund Kirby Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
16th - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
18th - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901)
20th - Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894)
25th - Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment & Irish Soldier of Fortune (d. 1876)
26th - Carli Zoeller, composer
26th - George Smith, London England, assyriologist (cuneiform (script))
28th - Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer/governor (Equatoria)
31st - John Herbert Kelly, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 5 of 5
2nd - Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets & asteroids), dies at 81
12th - Friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61
22nd - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)
28th - Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89
30th - George (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, dies
