The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-18
THE, MONTH OF MARCH

THE MONTH OF MARCH
FEBRUARY with it's birthdays of Washington and Lin
L coin, July with it's Independence Day and November
with Thanksgiving, are generally considered the most
notable months in the history of the United States
Every day of March, however, save the eleventh, twelfth
and thirteenth, has a long budget of momentous acts to
its credit, each one Of which counts as a stone in the
building of the nation Of today. The list is too long to
give in detail and only specially notable days with their
most important events can be mentioned.
On March 2, 1899, a French colony under Lemolne
dIbervile entered the Mississippi, thus leading to the
founding of New Orleans. 1t was on this same day, too,
in 1920, that the fateful "Missouri Compromise bill
was passed.
March 8 has a long and brilliant list; On this date
in 1913, Ponce de Leon sailed from Porto Rico in search
of the fountain Of youth; in 1910 DE Soto resumed his
march in search of the "country governed by a woman
and Astounding in gold" In 174e Wa1pole brought ns
bill before parliament revoking all charters previously
granted in America, and making the rule Of the. English
king supreme in the colonies. = T+t
March 4 is notable, not only because it has marked
the Inauguration of elected presidents Of thesUnited
States, but because on March 4, 1893, Columbus returned
to Spain; in 1919 Cortez landed at Tabasco and began the
conquest of Mexico; Pennsylvania was granted to Wln1am
Penn by charter in 1881, and it was on March 4, 1882
that the first federal congress met in New York and
adopted the constitution which has ever slnce oeeh Inc
law of the land. ~ .
March $ is an especially notable date in the history
of. North America, for on this day in 1893, Henry WI.
signed the commissions of John Cabot, a Venetian, to
make discoveries and take possession and lands for the
English, flag. Uloa took possession of New Orleans for
Spain in 1865; the Boston massacre occurred March 5,
1870, and in 1866 congress passed the Blair educational
bill appropriating 500, 100000 to be divided among the
states forzfree public schools '
On March 6, 1857, the bred Scott decision reused
public opinion in the north to white heat. .~
March 8, 1865, marked the passing by the British
parliament Of the obnoxious stamp act: con March y,
1912, the British, plot to :dismember the union was dis
closed, thus bringing on. the war Of 1912. +.
March IA, 1913, is the date on which Roger Williams
obtained the charter for. the towns Of Providence, New
port and Portsmouth under one charter,-that of Rhode
Island. On this same day, too, in 1851, La Sale took
possession fore France Of the country lying near the
Arkansas river. ->~
March~l7 is a famous day in New England, and as
tEvacuation Day. is a legal holiday in Massachusetts,
for it was on March II, 1776, that the. British under Lord
Howe marched out of Boston, never to return.
On March 10, 1928, the foundation of the Massa-
chusetts colony was laid. by six Engishmen, who pur-
chased a 'sbelt of land, extending from ocean to ocean,
and from three miles north of the Merrimac river to
three miles south of the Charles river and Massachusetts
Bay :
March %, 1921, saw the sealing of the treaty Of peace
by Massasoit with the Plymouth colony, a pact he kept
faithfully for fifty years. =.
:. On March %, 1893, William Bradford set up the
first printing press in New York.
It was on March so, 1774, that the British parliament
passed the port bill, closing the port of Boston and trans
= ferring the seat Of government to Salem, which city de-
clned it. - " ~
The long list Of notable March incidents, of which
these are not nearly half, is closed by the Commercial
treaty between the United States and Japan, which was
signed by Commodore Perry on March 81, 1S53,-an act
which awoke old Japan from her sleep and gave birth tx
the Japan of today a
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