| March 16th 1802 | | US Academy at West Point founded.
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| March 16th 1802 | | Law signed to establish US Milt Academy (West Point, NY)
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| March 16th 1802 | | US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
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| March 16th 1815 | | Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
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| March 16th 1822 | | Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano
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| March 16th 1827 | | 1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing
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| March 16th 1829 | | Ohio authorizes high school night classes
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| March 16th 1830 | | London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard)
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| March 16th 1830 | | New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
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| March 16th 1833 | | Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
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| March 16th 1834 | | HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
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| March 16th 1836 | | Texas approves a constitution
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| March 16th 1850 | | Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
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| March 16th 1861 | | Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
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| March 16th 1861 | | Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
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