393 Historic Events for March 31
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| 1838 |
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L‚on Dierx, French poet
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| 1839 |
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Nikolay Przhevalsky, naturalist, explorer of east central Asia (OS)
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| 1840 |
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John Herbert Kelly, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
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| 1841 |
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1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B
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| 1844 |
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Andrew Lang, Scotland, author (The Blue Fairy Book)
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| 1847 |
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Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer
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| 1848 |
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John Henry Roberts, composer
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| 1849 |
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Col John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of SF
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| 1850 |
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US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
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| 1850 |
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John Calhoun, dies at 68
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| 1854 |
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Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to US
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| 1854 |
Birth |
Dugald Clerk, inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine)
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| 1855 |
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Charlotte Bront‰, English author (Jane Eyre), dies at 38
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| 1861 |
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Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
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| 1862 |
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Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
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| 1863 |
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Battle of Grand Gulf MS and Dinwiddie Court House VA
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| 1865 |
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Battle of Boydton, VA (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H)
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| 1865 |
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Gen Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
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| 1868 |
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Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
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| 1868 |
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Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist
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| 1870 |
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1st black to vote in US (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy NJ)
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| 1872 |
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Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist, founder of Sinn F‚in
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| 1872 |
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Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet)
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| 1877 |
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British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown
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| 1877 |
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Test Cricket debut of Fred "Demon" Spofforth, Aust v Eng MCG
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