March 23rd, 1848

Born on March 23rd, 1848

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What happened on March 23rd, 1848?

March 23rd, 1848

The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wickliffe_(ship)

March 23rd, 1848

The Italian tricolour is adopted for the flag of the Kingdom of Sardinia by Charles Albert of Sardinia during the First Italian War of Independence.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Italy

What else happened on March 23rd?

March 23rd, 2007

The Iranian military arrested 15 Royal Navy personnel, claiming that they had entered Iran's territorial waters.

March 23rd, 1996

Lee Teng-hui was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.

March 23rd, 1994

Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 15-year-old son unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the controls.

March 23rd, 1993

The demolition of Kowloon Walled City, a densely crowded slum in Hong Kong, began.

March 23rd, 1991

The Sierra Leone Civil War began with the invasion of the Revolutionary United Front, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Saidu Momoh.

March 23rd, 1989

Two researchers announced the discovery of cold fusion, a claim that was later discredited.

March 23rd, 1977

British journalist David Frost began a series of interviews with former U.S. president Richard Nixon, starting with the Watergate scandal.

March 23rd, 1933

The Nazi Party took the first step in the Gleichschaltung process by having the Enabling Act passed, giving the government the right to make laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.

March 23rd, 1931

Bhagat Singh, one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement, and two others were executed by the British authorities for their murder of a police officer.

March 23rd, 1919

Benito Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the predecessor of the National Fascist Party.

March 23rd, 1908

American diplomat Durham Stevens, an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was fatally shot in San Francisco by two Korean immigrants unhappy with his support of increased Japanese presence in Korea.

March 23rd, 1905

About 1,500 Cretans, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, met at the village of Theriso to call for the island's unification with Greece, beginning the Theriso revolt.

March 23rd, 1889

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Islamic religious movement in British India.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 23rd

Same year
Born in 1848

69

Octave Mirbeau

French writer, art critic and journalist (1848–1917)

*February 16th, 1848, Trévières †February 16th, 1917, Paris

75

Raphael von Koeber

Russian-German philosopher

*January 15th, 1848, Nizhny Novgorod †June 14th, 1923, Yokohama

75

Vilfredo Pareto

Italian economist and sociologist (1848-1923)

*July 15th, 1848, Paris †August 19th, 1923, Céligny

59

Joris-Karl Huysmans

French novelist and art critic

*February 5th, 1848, Paris †May 12th, 1907, Paris

48

Édouard Joseph Dantan

French painter (1848–1897)

*August 26th, 1848, Paris †July 7th, 1897, Villerville

86

Benjamin Baillaud

French astronomer (1848-1934)

*February 14th, 1848, Chalon-sur-Saône †July 8th, 1934, Paris

76

Gottlob Frege

German philosopher, logician, and mathematician (1848–1925)

*November 8th, 1848, Wismar †July 26th, 1925, Bad Kleinen

65

Hubertine Auclert

French feminist and suffragist

*April 10th, 1848, Saint-Priest-en-Murat †April 8th, 1914, 11th arrondissement of Paris

87

Hugo de Vries

Dutch botanist (1848-1935)

*February 16th, 1848, Haarlem †May 21st, 1935, Ede

67

Władysław Marconi

Polish architect

*February 29th, 1848, Warsaw †June 4th, 1915, Warsaw

48

Otto Lilienthal

German aviation pioneer (1848-1896)

*May 23rd, 1848, Anklam †August 10th, 1896, Berlin

83

Pierre De Geyter

Belgian composer

*October 8th, 1848, Ghent †September 26th, 1932, Saint-Denis

70

Loránd Eötvös

Hungarian physicist (1848–1919)

*July 27th, 1848, Buda †April 8th, 1919, Budapest

86

Tōgō Heihachirō

Japanese admiral of the fleet (1848–1934)

*January 27th, 1848, Kajiya-chō †May 30th, 1934, Banchō

76

Johann Palisa

Austrian astronomist

*December 6th, 1848, Opava †May 2nd, 1925, Vienna

76

Eugène Simon

French naturalist and arachnologist

*April 30th, 1848, Paris †November 17th, 1924, Paris

80

Wyatt Earp

American gambler, miner, and frontier marshal (1848–1929)

*March 19th, 1848, Monmouth †January 13th, 1929, Los Angeles

82

Auguste Forel

Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (1848-1931)

*September 1st, 1848, Morges †July 27th, 1931, Yvorne

68

Otto, King of Bavaria

King of Bavaria (1848-1916)

*April 27th, 1848, Munich †October 11th, 1916, Fürstenried Palace

77

Dolores Jiménez y Muro

Mexican revolutionary (1848-1925)

*June 7th, 1848, Aguascalientes †October 15th, 1925, Mexico City

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Leap year

Yes: 1848 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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