Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 29

March 29:

• 1638 - Swedish settlers founded New Sweden near Delaware Bay, the first Swedish colony in America.

• 1809 - At the Diet of Porvoo, the Four Estates of Finland pledged allegiance to Tsar Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.

• 1831 - Bosniak general Husein Gradaščević began an uprising against Sultan Mahmud II and the Ottoman Empire.

• 1871 - The Royal Albert Hall (pictured) in Albertopolis was officially opened by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

• 1974 - NASA spaceprobe Mariner 10 flew by the planet Mercury.

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