Mar 11 Fort Carlton Saskatchewan Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier 1847-1901 warns Ottawa of danger of rebellion in Saskatchewan; NWMP Superintendent at Fort Carlton

Mar 22 Canadian troops ordered mobilized because of the Northwest Rebellion

Mar 30 Russian occupation of Penjdeh, Afghanistan, provokes crisis in Anglo-Russian relations.

Mar 07 John E W Thompson, named minister to Haiti

Mar 04 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as first Democratic President since Civil War

Mar 31 Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate

Mar 30 Cree chief Poundmaker [Pitikwahanapiwiyin] 1826-1886 attacks and surrounds Battleford with 200 warriors; local settlers forced to seek shelter in NWMP barracks for a month

Mar 03 US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission

Mar 13 In Victoria British Columbia, the Legislature passes Chinese Restriction; bans entry of Chinese immigrants, later ruled unconstitutional

Mar 03 Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of federal government)

Mar 14 Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Mikado", premieres in London

Mar 26 Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Saskatchewan

Mar 21 2nd French government of Ferry resigns

Mar 19 Louis Riel returns to Canada, proclaims provisional government, Saskatchewan

Mar 28 US Salvation Army officially organized

Mar 20 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine

Mar 26 Eastman Film Co manufactures first commercial motion picture film

Mar 03 American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates

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