Historical Events Mar 1 Ohio becomes 17th state of the Union Mar 3 1st impeachment trial of a US federal judge, John Pickering, begins Mar 3 Colégio Militar is founded in Portugal by Colonel Teixeira Rebello. Mar 5 First newspaper published in Australia the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser by government printer and ex-convict George Howe [1] Mar 19 Friedrich Schiller's "Die Braut von Messina" premieres in Weimar Famous Birthdays Mar 22 Anthonie Waldrop, Dutch painter and lithographer Famous Deaths Mar 13 William Emes, English landscape architect (b. 1729 or 1730) Mar 14 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (Der Messias), dies at 78 Mar 17 Candido Jose Ruano, Spanish composer, dies at 42 Mar 29 Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch composer (b. 1733) 1802 History by Year 1804