What Happened In March 1881 - Historical Events 1881 March

Historical Events for March, 1881

13th » Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
26th » Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
27th » Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of Teetotalism by the Salvation Army.

4th » Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian activist (d. 1924)
4th » Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American lawyer and author (d. 1965)
4th » Richard C. Tolman, American physicist and chemist (d. 1948)
10th » Thomas Quinlan (impresario) known as Thomas Quinlan, English businessman (d. 1951)
12th » Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist (d. 1923)
17th » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
19th » Edith Nourse Rogers, American politician (d. 1960)
23rd » Lacey Hearn, American sprinter (d. 1969)
23rd » Roger Martin du Gard, French author, Nobel Prize in Literature e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
23rd » Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
25th » Béla Bartók, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1945)
25th » Mary Webb, English author (d. 1927)
26th » Guccio Gucci, Italian fashion designer, founded Gucci (d. 1953)
28th » Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper (d. 1918)

6th » Horatia Nelson, English daughter of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (b. 1801)
13th » Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)
22nd » Samuel Courtauld (industrialist) called Samuel Courtauld, English businessman (b. 1793)
24th » Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
26th » Roman Sanguszko, Polish general and activist (b. 1800)
28th » Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1839)