Today is Friday, March 18, the 79th day of 2016. There are 287 days left in the year.
1583 — Dutch States General & Anjou sign treaty
1673 — Lord Berkley sells his half of New Jersey to the Quakers
1754 — Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier
1766 — British Parliament reinstitutes the Stamp Act
1818 — Congress approves first pensions for government service
1847 — First Dutch public telegram
1865 — Congress of Confederate States of American adjourns for last time
1871 — Communards revolt in Paris France
1877 — President Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington, D.C.