1st » The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
9th » Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
29th » Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz (city) called Veracruz after a Siege of Veracruz or siege.
Famous Birthdays on March in 1847
3rd » Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-American engineer, invented the Telephone (d. 1922)
4th » Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
8th » John Lister (UK politician) known as John Lister, English politician (d. 1933)
9th » Martin Pierre Marsick, Belgian violinist (d. 1924)
10th » Kate Sheppard, English-New Zealand activist (d. 1934)
27th » Richard Martin Meredith, Canadian judge and academic, founded University of Western Ontario (d. 1934)
27th » Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Physics or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
31st » Hermann de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (d. 1904)
31st » Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)