- Mar 3 Congress increases US Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
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Mar 3 US President Andrew Jackson and Congress recognize the Republic of Texas
- Mar 4 Chicago becomes incorporated as a city
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Mar 4 Martin Van Buren inaugurated as the 8th President of the United States
- Mar 4 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
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Mar 12 British poet laureate Robert Southey writes in reply to 20 year-old Charlotte Brontë "Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be." [1]
- Mar 24 Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote
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