What is March 11?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[222]] &ndash; Roman Emperor [[Elagabalus]] and his mother, [[Julia Soaemias]] are [[murder]]ed by the Praetorian Guard. * [[1513]] &ndash; [[Pope Leo X|Leo X]] is elected [[Pope]]. * [[1649]] &ndash; The [[Frondeurs]] (rebels) and the [[France|French]] government sign the [[Peace of Rueil]]. * [[1702]] &ndash; The first regular [[English language|English-language]] [[newspaper]], ''[[The Daily Courant]]'', is published in [[London]]. * [[1708]] &ndash; [[Anne of Great Britain|Queen Anne]] withholds [[Royal Assent]] from a militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation. * [[1770]] &ndash; [[James Cook]] reaches the [[Solander Islands]] off southern [[New Zealand]]. * [[1784]] &ndash; The signing of the [[Treaty of Mangalore]] brings the [[Second Anglo-Mysore War]] to an end. * [[1824]] &ndash; The [[United States War Department]] creates the [[Bureau of Indian Affairs]]. * [[1845]] &ndash; [[First Maori War|The Flagstaff War]]: In [[New Zealand]], Chiefs [[Hone Heke]] and [[Kawiti]] lead 700 [[Maoris]] to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of [[Kororareka]] because of breaches of the [[1840]] [[Treaty of Waitangi]]. * [[1851]] &ndash; The [[opera]] ''[[Rigoletto]]'' by [[Giuseppe Verdi]] is performed for the first time, in [[Venice]]. * [[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: The [[Constitution]] of the [[Confederate States of America]] is adopted. * [[1864]] &ndash; The [[Great Sheffield Flood]]: The largest man–made disaster ever to befall [[England]] kills over 250 people in [[Sheffield]]. * [[1867]] &ndash; The [[opera]] [[Don Carlos]] by [[Giuseppe Verdi]] is performed for the first time, in [[Paris]]. * [[1872]] &ndash; [[Meiji]] [[Japan]] officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the [[Okinawa]] [[Prefecture]]. * [[1888]] &ndash; The [[Great Blizzard of '88]] begins along the eastern seaboard of the [[United States]], shutting down commerce and killing more t