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Historical Event(s)
– Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
– 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.
– The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.
– Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
– The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
– The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.
– Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
– 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 ?
– John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)
– Jean de Reszke, Polish operatic tenor (d. 1925)
– George Henschel, German-British baritone, conductor, composer (d. 1934)
– Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer (d. 1927)
– Oliver Heaviside, English physicist (d. 1925)
– Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian vulcanologist (d. 1914)
– Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-born author (d. 1904)
– Annie Armstrong, American missionary leader (d. 1938)
– Reginald Heber Roe, Australian academic and educator (d. 1926)
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)