0871 Battle at Marton Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army
0986 Lothair IV of the Franks dies March 2 at age 44 and is succeeded by his son, 19, who will reign briefly as Louis V (le Fainéant), embroiling the Carolingians with Adalberon, archbishop of Reims, and Hugh Capet
1121 Dirk VI becomes count of Holland
1458 Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen king of Bohemia
1498 Vasco da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island
1675 Prince William III installed as Governor of Overijssel
1699 Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville 1661-1706 builds Fort Maurepas on the Gulf of Mexico; French control now extends all the way down the Mississippi River.
1725 Georg F Händels opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto", premieres in London
1776 Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
1789 Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances
1799 Congress standardizes US weights &measures
1807 Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808
1819 Territory of Arkansas organized
1819 US passed its first immigration law
1824 Interstate commerce comes under federal control
1831 John Frazee becomes the first US sculptor to receive a federal commission
1836 Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico
1836 Texas declares its independence from Mexico.
1853 Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory
1855 Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia
1858 Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie
1861 Government Printing Office purchases a printing plant, Washington DC
1861 US Congress creates Dakota &Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska &Utah territories
1863 Congress authorizes track width of 4'8½" for Union Pacific RR to be called the "Standard gauge "
1865 British newspaper "Morning Chronicle" begins publishing
