| March 16th 1862 | | Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles
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| March 16th 1865 | | Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)
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| March 16th 1869 | | Hiram R Revels makes 1st official speech by a black in the Senate
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| March 16th 1871 | | 1st fertilizer law enacted
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| March 16th 1872 | | 1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton
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| March 16th 1876 | | Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
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| March 16th 1877 | | Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 v Eng
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| March 16th 1881 | | Barnum & Bailey Circus debuts
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| March 16th 1882 | | US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
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| March 16th 1894 | | Jules Massenet's opera "Tha‹s," premieres in Paris
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| March 16th 1896 | | Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen"
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| March 16th 1897 | | Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG)
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| March 16th 1900 | | AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in
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| March 16th 1900 | | Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus
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| March 16th 1900 | | Chicago, KC, Minn, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleve & Buffalo
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