March Events in Virginia

March 1

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March 2

- The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control opened its 300th store in 2005, at Fair Oaks Mall in Fairfax County.

March 3

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March 7

- Smith Mountain Lake, a pumped storage reservoir built in concert with Leesville Dam so the same water from the Roanoke and Blackwater rivers could be pumped back upstream and generate hydropower again at times of peak demand, reached "full pool" in 1966.

March 8

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March 9

- USS Monitor and CSS Virginia engage on the first battle of ironclad ships in Hampton Roads, with the CSS Virginia retiring that evening to Gosport Navy Yard in Portsmouth, in 1862.

March 10

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March 12

- Pocahontas dies at Gravesend, on the journey back to Virginia after visiting John Rolfe's homeland and meeting English royalty.

March 13

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March 15

- Joseph Jenkins Roberts is born in Petersburg, 1809. He will be elected the first Liberian president in 1848 - the ninth person from Virginia (after Washington, Jefferson, Madison...) to be elected "president"

March 16

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March 21

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March 22

- In the "Algonquian Uprising" of the Powhatan tribes against the English, Martin's Hundred and it's administrative center, Wolstenholme Towne, suffer more English casualties than any other plantation in Colonial Virginia, in 1622

March 23

- At St. John's Church in Richmond, Patrick Henry delivers his "give me liberty or give me death" speech, in 1775

March 24

- King Charles II issues charter in 1663 for new proprietary colony in Carolina

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