Historical Events In March - 01
0743 Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited
0918 Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht
1260 Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus
1382 French Maillotin uprises against taxes
1420 Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the hussieten
1434 Jacoba of Bavaria marries Frank van Borselen
1562 Blood bath at Vassy; General de Guise allows 1200 huguenots murder
1565 Spanish occupier Estacio de Sá founds Rio de Janeiro
1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV
1634 Battle at Smolensk; Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians
1642 Georgeana (York) ME became the first incorporated American city
1692 Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, &Tituba arrest for witchcraft (Salem MA)
1711 "The Spectator" begins publishing (London)
1755 In Quebec city Quebec Jean-Armand Dieskau is appointed commander of the French regular troops in Canada
1780 Pennsylvania becomes first US state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only)
1781 Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation
1781 The US Continental Congress adopts its Articles of Confederation
1784 E Kidner opens the first cooking school, in Great Britain
1790 A US census to establish the population is authorized
1790 Congress authorizes the first US Census survey.
1792 US Presidential Succession Act passed
1803 Ohio becomes 17th state
1809 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed &Non-Intercourse Act signed
1811 Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500
1811 French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel
1815 Disbanding of Lower Canada militia after War of 1812
1815 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law
1845 President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas
1845 The Republic of Texas is annexed to the US.
1847 Michigan becomes first English-speaking jurisdiction to abolish the death penalty (except for treason against the state)
1854 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor and is never seen again
1864 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
1864 Rebecca Lee (US) becomes first black woman to receive a medical degree
1866 Paraguayan canoes sink 2 Brazilian ironclads on Rio Parana
