What day of the week was March 17, 1846?

The day of the week March 17th, 1846 fell on was a Tuesday. There were 26 days until Easter Sunday.

Kate Greenaway the English author and illustrator (d. 1901) was born on 17 March in 1846.

Friedrich Bessel the German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1784) died on this day in 1846.