This day in History - March 1

504 Historic Events for March 1
1788 Birth Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician
1788 Death Orazio Mei, composer, dies at 56
1790 Event 1st US census authorized
1792 Event US Presidential Succession Act passed
1796 Event 1st National Meeting in the Hague
1797 Death Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36
1799 Birth Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer
1803 Event Ohio becomes 17th state
1804 Death Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63
1809 Event Embargo Act of 1807 repealed and Non-Intercourse Act signed
1810 Birth Fr‚d‚ric Chopin, Poland, composer/pianist (Concert in F Minor) [NS]
1811 Event French Civil Code of Criminal law accepted by Netherlands Mamelukes in Cairo's Citadel
1811 Event Egyptian king Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees ceremonial murder of 500
1811 Birth Robert Christie Buchanan, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1878
1815 Event Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law
1817 Death Luigi Gatti, composer, dies at 77
1820 Birth Richard Redhead, composer
1820 Birth George Davis, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1896
1822 Birth Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1822 Birth Charles Champion Gilbert, Brig General (Union volunteers)
1826 Birth John Thomas, composer
1826 Death J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59
1828 Birth James Fleming Fagan, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1828 Birth Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright
1831 Birth Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864