Page 3: Historical Events In March - 11

1840  On this day in history edmund Kirby Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863   

1845  On March - 11 florida became the 27th state of the United States of America.   

1845  The U.S. Congress passed legislation overriding a President’s veto. It was the first time Congress had done so on this day in history.   

1845  The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi on March - 11.   

1846  On this day in history antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet   

1848  On March - 11 louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.   

1850  Richard Blanshard arrives at Fort Victoria; reads proclamation establishing the new colony of Vancouver Island, with himself as the first Governor on this day in history.   

1850  Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1st female medical school) on March - 11.   

1850  Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school) on March - 11.   

1851  Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto", premieres in Venice on March - 11.   

1851  On March - 11 giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," premieres in Venice   

1857  On March - 11 manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84   

1860  Thomas Hastings, NYC, architect (NY Public Library) on this day in history.   

1861  Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution on March - 11.   

1862  On this day in history general Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia   

1862  Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief &makes him head of Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief on this day in history.   

1862  Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief & makes him head of on this day in history.   

1863  Free city delivery of mail was authorized by the U.S. Postal Service on March - 11.   

1863  On this day in history andrew Stoddart, cricketer (My Dear Victorious Stod)   

1864  Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee on March - 11.   

1865  Assembly of Canada votes 91-33 to proceed with Confederation on March - 11.   

1865  On this day in history general Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville NC   

1865  Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC on March - 11.   

1867  Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos", premieres in Paris France on this day in history.   

1867  Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano) on this day in history.   

1867  On March - 11 giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos," premieres in Paris   

1870  On March - 11 king Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho   

1872  On March - 11 construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.   

1872  Abraham van Stolk Jzn, lumber merchant/art collector on March - 11.   

1874  Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63 on March - 11.   

1876  On March - 11 carl Ruggles, Marion Mass, composer (Evocations)   

1879  Guelph Ontarioincorporated as a city; settlement founded by John Galt on this day in history.   

1879  On March - 11 justus Hermann Wetzel, composer   

1882  Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton NJ on March - 11.   

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1544  Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia) was born on March - 11.   

1549  On this day in history birth of hendrik L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer   

1549  Henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel) was born on this day in history.   

1596  On this day in history birth of isaac Elsevier, book publisher   

1654  On March - 11 birth of heinrich Georg Neuss, composer   

1683  Giovanni Veneziano, composer was born on this day in history.   

1725  On this day in history birth of henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)   

1731  Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence) was born on this day in history.   

0222  Death of Varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18½ on this day in history.   

0638  Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem, dies on March - 11.   

0859  On March - 11 death of eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr   

1198  Death of Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145) on this day in history.   

1486  On March - 11 albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg, dies at 71   

1514  Death of Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444) on this day in history.   

1575  Death of Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520) on March - 11.   

1602  Death of Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer on this day in history.