What happend on 13th March

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1900

In France, length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law

1900

Boer Wars: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.

1897

San Diego State University founded.

1884

The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins (ends on January 26, 1885).

1881

Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was 1 March in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)

1865

American Civil War: The Confederate States of America reluctantly agrees to the use of African American troops.

1862

American Civil War:the US federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.

1781

William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.

1639

Harvard College was named for clergyman John Harvard.

1138

Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.