On 8 March 1873, at the urging of his father, the twenty-eight-year-old ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá married Fátimih Nahrí of Isfahán ( 1847 – 1938 ) a twenty-five-year-old noblewoman.

Scene from The Happy Land, showing the impersonation of Gladstone, Lowe, and Ayrton, from The Illustrated London News, March 22, 1873

Cannon, a member of the Republican Party, was elected as to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois to the Forty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses ( March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1891 ), and was the chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department ( Forty-seventh Congress ), Committee on Appropriations ( Fifty-first Congress ).

In March 1872 a German Imperial Naval Academy was created at Kiel for training officers, followed in May by the creation of a ' Machine Engineer Corps ', and in February 1873 a ' Medical Corps '.

In March 1873, the trustees of Toland Medical College transferred it to the Regents of the University of California, and it became " The Medical Department of the University of California.

The presidential inauguration was in March 1873.

* March 28 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer ( b. 1873 )

* March 24 – Alice Guy-Blaché, French film director ( b. 1873 )

* March 6 – Fred Stone, American actor ( b. 1873 )

* March 26 – Spiridon Louis, Greek runner ( b. 1873 )

* March 31 – Hugh Maxwell, American lawyer and politician ( d. 1873 )

* March 6 – Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago ( assassinated ) ( b. 1873 )

* March 10 – Ahmed Sharif es Senussi, Chief of the Senussi order in Libya ( b. 1873 )

* March 7 – Edwin Henry Landseer, British painter ( d. 1873 )

* March 19 – David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer ( d. 1873 )

* March 3 – William Charles Macready, English actor ( d. 1873 )

* March 20 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Romania's first reigning Domnitor ( d. 1873 )

The opera was soon mounted at major opera houses throughout Italy, including the Teatro Regio di Parma ( 20 April 1872 ), the Teatro di San Carlo ( 30 March 1873 ), La Fenice ( 11 June 1873 ), the Teatro Regio di Torino ( 26 December 1874 ), the Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 30 September 1877, with Giuseppina Pasqua as Amneris and Franco Novara as the King ), and the Teatro Costanzi ( 8 October 1881, with Theresia Singer as Aida and Giulia Novelli as Amneris ) among others.

La Scala produced the opera for the first time on 30 March 1873, with Campanini as Lohengrin, Gabrielle Krauss as Elsa, Philippine von Edelsberg as Ortrud, Victor Maurel as Friedrich, and Gian Pietro Milesi as Heinrich.

Anton " Tony " Joseph Cermak (, ; May 9, 1873 – March 6, 1933 ) was an American politician of Czech origin, mostly known as the mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1931 until his assassination in 1933.

This controversial act, known as the " Salary Grab ", was signed into law in March 1873.

Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873 ) was an Italian poet and novelist.

( A physical connection between Omaha, Nebraska and the statutory Eastern terminus of the Pacific road at Council Bluffs, Iowa located immediately across the Missouri River was also not finally established until the opening of UPRR railroad bridge across the river on March 25, 1873, prior to which transfers were made by ferry operated by the Council Bluffs & Nebraska Ferry Company.

Cecil Donald " Don " Briscoe ( born March 20, 1940, Yalobusha County, Mississippi — died October 31, 2004, Memphis, Tennessee ) was an American soap opera actor, most notable for playing Tony Meritt (# 2 ) on Days of Our Lives, and, from 1968 – 1970, for playing Chris Jennings, Tom Jennings, Timothy Shaw, and Chris Collins on Dark Shadows.

New car sales in Dallas County during March showed slight signs of recovering from the doldrums which have characterized sales this year.

Registrations of new cars in Dallas County cracked the 3,000 mark in March for the first time this year.

He married secondly at Çubuklu, Bosphorus, on 1 March 1910 and divorced in 1913 Hungarian Noblewoman Marianne Török de Szendrö, who took the name Zübeyde Cavidan Hanım ( Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 8 January 1874-aft.

On March 25, 1853, Alameda County was created by division of Contra Costa County, as well as from a small portion of Santa Clara County.

On 10 March 2009 the CIRA claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of a PSNI officer in Craigavon, County Armagh — the first police fatality in Northern Ireland since 1998.

In March 2009 a Fulton County, Ga., State Court jury awarded $ 2. 3 million in damages to a 4-year-old boy and his mother for a botched circumcision in which too much tissue was removed causing permanent disfigurement.

The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and depicts the experiences of Scarlett O ' Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.

Further, as a reward for his leadership in North Africa and Italy, Alexander, along with a number of other prominent British Second World War military leaders, was elevated to the peerage on 1 March 1946 by King George VI ; he was created Viscount Alexander of Tunis and Errigal in the County of Donegal.

She was born in Hamilton County, Nebraska on Sept. 8, 1903 and died on March 9, 2002 in Charlestown, South Carolina.

During November to March, approximately 400 West Indian manatees ( according to the National Wildlife Refuge ) congregate in the rivers in Citrus County, Florida.

The authority of the Pope was now recognized throughout the papal territory, which then comprised the Exarchate of Ravenna, the March of Ancona, the Duchy of Spoleto, the County of Bertinoro, the Mathildian lands, and the Pentapolis, i. e., the cities of Rimini, Pesaro, Fano, Senigallia, and Ancona.

The last fully authenticated record of a wild bird was near Sargents, Pike County, Ohio, on March 22, 1900, when the bird was killed by a boy with a BB gun.

* His wife ( m. March 8, 1745 / 1746 ) Elizabeth " Betty " Harrison ( Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County (?

Thomas McKean ( March 19, 1734 – June 24, 1817 ) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

On March 13, 1996, Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, Maryland Governor Parris Glendening, and Prince George's County Executive Wayne K. Curry signed a contract that paved the way for the immediate start of construction for the new home of the Redskins ( now FedExField ).

* March 22 – The Georgia Guidestones are erected in Elbert County, Georgia.

* March 9 – March 11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine in Letcher County, Kentucky.

* March 15 – in County Tipperary, Ireland, Bridget Cleary is killed by her husband, believing her to be a fairy changeling.

* March 20 – A new capital of North Carolina and county seat of the newly formed Wake County is established after North Carolina State Senator and surveyor William Christmas submits his design for the city.

* March 29 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Rosillo Creek: The Republican Army of the North defeats the Spanish Royalist Army in present-day Bexar County, Texas.

* March 12 – The North Carolina General Assembly establishes Wake County ( named for Margaret Wake, the wife of North Carolina Royal Governor William Tryon ) from portions of Cumberland, Johnston and Orange counties.

On March 11, 1966, these landowners, all fully owned subsidiaries of what is now The Walt Disney Company, petitioned the Circuit Court of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, which served Orange County, Florida, for the creation of the Reedy Creek Drainage District under Chapter 298 of the Florida Statutes.