What Happened In March 1863 - Historical Events 1863 March

Historical Events for March, 1863

19th » The SS called Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate States of America called Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
30th » Danish prince George I of Greece or Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.

1st » Aleksandr Golovin (artist) called Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (d. 1930)
1st » Naomi Anderson, American civil rights activist
3rd » Arthur Machen, Welsh actor and author (d. 1947)
4th » Reginald Innes Pocock, English zoologist (d. 1947)
4th » John Henry Wigmore, American jurist (d. 1943)
11th » Andrew Stoddart, English cricketer (d. 1915)
12th » Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (d. 1945)
14th » Casey Jones, American engineer (d. 1900)
18th » William Sulzer, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of New York (d. 1941)
25th » Simon Flexner, American physician and educator (d. 1946)
27th » Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1933)
30th » Mary Calkins, American philosopher and psychologist (d. 1930)