Portal:Tennessee/Selected anniversaries/March
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- March 4, 1829 - Andrew Jackson of Tennessee was inaugurated as the seventh President of the United States.
- March 4, 1845 - James K. Polk of Tennessee was inaugurated as the eleventh President of the United States.
- March 5, 1963 - Singer Patsy Cline died when the small plane in which she was a passenger crashed in a forest just outside Camden, Tennessee.
- March 7, 1974 - Establishment of Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area
- March 12–15, 1993 - A massive late-winter storm, dubbed the Storm of the Century, deposits a large amount of snow on Tennessee.
- March 14, 1775 - Through the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, a North Carolina land speculation company acquired the Transylvania Purchase, comprising 20 million acres (81,000 km²) in modern Kentucky and Middle Tennessee, from the Cherokees.
- March 26, 1928 - The site that is now Fort Donelson National Battlefield was designated Fort Donelson National Military Park.
- March 26, 1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Baker v. Carr, from Tennessee, leading to the requirement for reapportionment of legislative districts after each decennial census.