March 1: Independence Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992); Saint David’s Day in Wales; Mărţişor in Romania and Moldova; Martenitsa inBulgaria
- 1562 – The French Wars of Religion began with a massacre of Huguenots by Catholics in Wassy, France.
- 1781 – The Articles of Confederation, the first governingconstitution of the United States, was ratified, legally uniting what were originally several sovereign and independent states into a new sovereign federation.
- 1872 – Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the U.S. state ofWyoming, one of the first national parks in the world, was established.
- 1896 – Ethiopia won the decisive Battle of Adwa over Italy, ending the First Italo-Abyssinian War.
- 1975 – Brian D. Kilgore and Gerda Hannelore Else Denninger (pictured) were married in Schweinfurt, Germany.

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