Editing March 3 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: The first [[amphibious landing]] of the [[United States Marine Corps]] begins the [[Battle of Nassau]].
*[[1779]] &ndash; American Revolutionary War: The [[Continental Army]] is routed at the [[Battle of Brier Creek]] near [[Savannah, Georgia]].
*[[1799]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Corfu (1798–99)|Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu]] ends with the surrender of the French garrison.
*[[1845]] &ndash; [[Florida]] is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.<ref>{{cite book|author=Florida. Legislature. Senate|title=A Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the ... General Assembly of the State of Florida|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gk4UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA234|year=1859|pages=234|access-date=2020-02-25|archive-date=2020-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805170117/https://books.google.com/books?id=Gk4UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA234|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1849]] &ndash; The [[Territory of Minnesota]] is created.<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Duffield Neill|title=The History of Minnesota: From the Earliest French Explorations to the Present Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ds8xAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA492|year=1873|publisher=J.B. Lippincott and Company|pages=492|access-date=2020-02-25|archive-date=2020-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805170055/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ds8xAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA492|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Second Opium War]]: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
*[[1859]] &ndash; The two-day [[The Great Slave Auction|Great Slave Auction]], the largest such auction in [[United States]] history, concludes.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bailey |first=Anne C. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781108140393/type/book |title=The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-108-14039-3 |edition=1 |pages=3 |language=en |doi=10.1017/9781108140393 |access-date=March 2, 2022 |archive-date=March 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230302161923/https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/weeping-time/5508CF20D6430EA872C661B8E0BC7995 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Alexander II of Russia]] signs the [[Emancipation reform of 1861|Emancipation Manifesto]], freeing [[Serfdom|serfs]].
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Censorship in the United States]]: The U.S. Congress enacts the [[Comstock Law]], making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
*[[1875]] &ndash; The [[first indoor hockey game|first ever organized indoor game]] of [[ice hockey]] is played in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada as recorded in the ''[[Montreal Gazette]]''.
*  1875  &ndash; [[Bizet]]'s opera ''[[Carmen]]'' is first performed at the [[Opéra-Comique]] in Paris.
*[[1878]] &ndash; The [[Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)|Russo-Turkish War]] ends with [[Bulgaria]] [[Liberation of Bulgaria|regaining its independence]] from the [[Ottoman Empire]] according to the [[Treaty of San Stefano]].
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Shoshone National Forest]] is established as the first national forest in the US and world.