Page 2: Historical Events In March - 11
Tuesday, 17 March 2026
1772 George Reuter, composer, dies at 63 

1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time) 

1781 Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer. 

1786 Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Dutch/Swiss poet, dies at 28 

1787 Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer, dies at 45 

1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC 

1791 Samuel Mulliken of Philadelphia, PA became the inaugural person to receive more than one patent from the U.S. Patent Office 

1791 Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent 

1793 Jan F Willems, Flemish writer/philologist. 

1794 Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens 

1795 Battle at Kurdla India Mahratten beat Mogols. 

1795 Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols 

1807 Anton Eberl, composer, dies at 41 

1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise 

1810 Napoleon is married by proxy at Vienna to the Austrian archduchess Maria Luisa, 18, in a match arranged by Austrian foreign minister Metternich The "little corporal" hopes to father an heir 

1811 Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 

1812 Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews. 

1812 James Speed, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1887. 

1818 John Wilkins Whitfield, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879. 

1819 Sir Henry Tate, Founder of London's Tate Gallery is born 

1819 Henry Tate, English sugar producer (Tate Gallery) 

1820 Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81 

1822 Allison Nelson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862. 

1823 The inaugural normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord VT. 

1823 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt. 

1824 US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs 

1824 US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair 

1826 Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer, dies at 66 

1827 Septimus Winner, composer. 

1832 Franz Melde, German phyicist (Melde test). 

1833 Fridolin Weber, composer, dies at 71 

1835 George Kingsmill sets up inaugural formal police force in Canada; High Constable of Toronto. 

1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile. 

1840 Edmund Kirby Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863. 

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