Page 4: Historical Events In March - 03

1862  General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid MO.   

1862  Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces.   

1863  Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences   

1863  Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City NV   

1863  Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia.   

1863  Free city delivery of mail was authorized by the U.S. Postal Service   

1863  Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress   

1863  Idaho Territory forms.   

1863  US wartime military conscription bill enacted.   

1863  1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted.   

1864  Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21.   

1865  Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established to help destitute free blacks   

1865  Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established.   

1865  Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer   

1867  Gustav Strube, composer   

1868  Alain, [Emile-Auguste Chartier], French philosopher/writer.   

1869  University of South Carolina opens to all races.   

1869  Henry J Wood, English conductor (Gentle Art of Singing, Proms).   

1871  Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent   

1872  Wee Willie Keeler, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles); hit .432 in 1897.   

1873  Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps   

1873  US Congress and government raise own salary, retroactively.   

1873  William Green, president of American Federation of Labor (1924-52).   

1875  Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris France).   

1875  1st recorded hockey game (Montreal).   

1877  Rutherford B Hayes is sworn in as the 19th President.   

1877  Garrett Morgan, African-American inventor.   

1878  Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)   

1879  The inaugural female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)   

1879  The United States Geological Survey was established   

1879  US geological survey director authorized in Department of the Interior.   

1879  1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood).   

1880  Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic   

1882  New York Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings   

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1455  King john ii of portugal: King john ii of portugal (d. 1495)   

1500  Reginald pole: English cardinal/"heretic"   

1520  Matthias flacius: Croatian protestant reformer   

1583  Edward herbert of cherbury: English military/philosopher   

1589  Gisbertus voetius: [gijsbert voet], dutch reformed theologist   

1606  Edmund waller: England, poet (penshust)   

1652  Thomas otway: England, playwright/poet (venice preserved)   

1678  Madeleine de verchères: French canadian heroine   

0561  Death of Pelagius i: Italian pope (547-51, 556-61),   

1191  Death of Saladin [salah ad-din]) yusuf: Sultan of egypt/syria,   

1239  Vladimir iii rurikovich: Grand prince of kiev (b. 1187)   

1459  Death of Ausias march: Catalan poet,   

1554  Johann friedrich: The generous, elector of saxony (1532-47) and head of the protestant confederation of germany (the schmalkaldic league),   

1580  Jacob hillebrand: Dutch mayor of groningen,   

1635  Death of Philips de l'espinoy: Historian/mayor of ghent,   

1703  Death of Robert hooke: Scientific genius,