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March 11
Newport Gallery Night, Newport
March 13
Heritage Hike: Harkness Conservation Area, Forestdale, North Smithfield
March 19
My Life in a Lighthouse, Riverside, East Providence
March 28
The Ospreys of Narrow River, Narragansett
April 8
Newport Gallery Night, Newport
April 10
Heritage Hike: Harkness Conservation Area, Forestdale, North Smithfield
April 24
Stone Walls Walk and Talk, Bristol
Run for the Lighthouse, Riverside, East Providence
May 1
Derby Day Party, Bristol
May 8
Heritage Hike: Harkness Conservation Area, Forestdale, North Smithfield
More events
March 5th in Rhode Island history*
1595
William Blackstone, the first European settler in Rhode Island, is born in Durham County, England.
1770
Four colonists are shot dead, and several wounded, by British soldiers during an incident at the State House in Boston, Massachusetts.
1776
George Washington visits Providence (through March 7th).
1781
Job Watson, long the lookout at the famous tower on Tower Hill in South Kingstown spots George Washington and his party traveling in their carriages along the Post Road. Watson spreads the news, and Rhode Islanders greet Washington along the route. The general is on his way to Newport to discuss plans for the campaign against the British in the South. Upon his arrival the French troops stand at attention on Long Wharf and both sides of the street leading to Vernon House, Rochambeau's Newport headquarters.
1932
The Rhode Island General Assembly passes an act redistricting Rhode Island into two congressional districts (from three), in compliance with the Reapportionment Act of 1929.
1933
All Rhode Island banks close due to a national financial panic. [Banks will able to supply currency again by March 13].
1984
Providence mayor Buddy Cianci pleads no contest to assaulting Raymond DeLeo. Meanwhile, city and state planners announce that they want to move two rivers, tear out the widest bridge in the world (the Crawford Street Bridge), and relocate a World War I monument, in Providence.
1993
Judge Raymond J. Pettine rules that the Narragansett Indian tribe has the authority to build a gambling casino on its land in Charlestown.
