Historical events on March 2
- 0871 Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army
- 1121-Dirk VI becomes Count of Holland
- 1458-Hussite George van Podiebrad chosen King of Bohemia
- 1629-English King Charles I leaces house of commons
- 1675-Prince William III installed as Governor of Overijssel
- 1776-Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
- 1789-Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances
- 1799-Congress standardizes US Weights & Measures
- 1807-Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808
- 1817-1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn
- 1819-Territory of Arkansas organized
- 1819-US passed its 1st immigration law
- 1824-Interstate commerce comes under federal control
- 1825-1st grand opera in US sung in English, New York City
- 1829-New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston
- 1831-John Frazee becomes 1st US Sculptor to receive a federal commission
- 1836-Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico
- 1853-Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Ter
- 1855-Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia
- 1858-Frederick Cook, New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie
- 1861-Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant, Washington
- 1861-US creates Dakota and Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska and Utah ter
- 1865-British newspaper “Morning Chronicle” begins publishing
- 1866-1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Conn
- 1867-1st Reconstruction act passed by Congress
- 1867-Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico
- 1867-Congress created the Department of Education
- 1867-Congress passed the 1st Reconstruction Act
- 1867-Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah Missouri, 1 dead
- 1867-US Congress creates the Department of Education
- 1316-Robert II [the Steward]: King of Scotland (1371–90)
- Originally published at www.history-events.info.