Page 3: Historical Events In March - 11

1840  On March - 11 edmund Kirby Jr, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863   

1845  Florida became the 27th state of the United States of America on March - 11.   

1845  On March - 11 the U.S. Congress passed legislation overriding a President’s veto. It was the first time Congress had done so.   

1845  On this day in history 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.   

1846  Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet on March - 11.   

1848  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 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1850  Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school) on this day in history.   

1851  Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto", premieres in Venice on this day in history.   

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

1857  Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1860  On March - 11 thomas Hastings, NYC, architect (NY Public Library)   

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

1862  On March - 11 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 March - 11.   

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

1863  On March - 11 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  General Sherman's Union forces occupy Fayetteville NC on this day in history.   

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

1867  Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos", premieres in Paris France on March - 11.   

1867  On this day in history great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)   

1867  Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos," premieres in Paris on March - 11.   

1870  King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho on this day in history.   

1872  Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain on this day in history.   

1872  On March - 11 abraham van Stolk Jzn, lumber merchant/art collector   

1874  On March - 11 charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63   

1876  On this day in history carl Ruggles, Marion Mass, composer (Evocations)   

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

1879  Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer on March - 11.   

1882  On this day in history intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton NJ   

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1544  On March - 11 birth of torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia)   

1549  On March - 11 birth of hendrik L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer   

1549  Henric Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel) was born on March - 11.   

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

1654  Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer was born on this day in history.   

1683  On March - 11 birth of giovanni Veneziano, composer   

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  On this day in history death of varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered at 18½   

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

0859  Death of Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr on March - 11.   

1198  Death of Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145) on March - 11.   

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

1514  On this day in history death of donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)   

1575  Death of Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520) on this day in history.   

1602  Death of Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer on March - 11.