Savannah, Georgia held its first St. Patrick's Day parade on this day in 1824.
We don't tend to think of the Irish immigrating to the American South, but there were some, although the story is complicated by the conflation of the Irish with the Scots Irish, the latter group actually being a Scottish Protestant population imported by the United Kingdom with the intent to create a sort of Protestant wall in Ulster. The actual Irish were a massively unpopular "race" in the United States at this point in time.
The name "Old Glory" was applied to the U.S. flag for the first time, with that coming from Cpt. William Driver, a commercial captain who received it from his mother and local women of Salem, Massachusetts. The name was applied to the individual flag.
Driver was an interesting character and had originally gone to sea at age 13 as a cabin boy. On an 1831 expedition to the South Pacific, his ship was the only one out of six that survived the trip, and his ship escorted 65 descendants of the Bounty survivors back to Pitcairn Island. He retired from sailing in 1837 and became a salesman. During the Civil War, he remained loyal to the Union while living in Nashville.
It remained in his family's possession until 1922, when it was donated to the Smithsonian.
The Anglo Dutch Treaty was entered into resolving issues that had arisen due to a prior treaty in 1814.
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