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

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

1865 Freedman's Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865

1865 General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough

1866 The first US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Connecticut

1867 Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico

1867 Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah MO, 1 dead

1867 US Congress creates the Department of Education

1867 US Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act

1877 Rutherford B Hayes (R) declared President despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral vote shy of victory

1889 Kansas passes first US antitrust

1893 The first federal railroad legislation passed; required safety features

1896 George Lohmann takes 9-28 vs South Africa at Johannesburg

1898 Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England

1899 Admiral George Dewey becomes the first US Admiral of the Navy.

1899 President McKinley signs bill creating Mount Rainier National Park (5th in US)

1901 Hawaii's first telegraph company opens

1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York NY

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