March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of seven months that are 31 days long. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the Northern Hemisphere for March.
March symbols: The birthstones of March are aquamarine and bloodstone. These stones symbolize courage. Its birth flower is the daffodil. The zodiac signs for the month of March are Pisces (until March 20) and Aries (March 21 onwards).
Historical Events for March, 1847
Day of Week 1st » The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
Day of Week 9th » Mexican–American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
Day of Week 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)