Mar 3 Office of Surgeon General of the US Army forms Mar 8 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic Mar 18 David Melville, Newport, Rhode Island, patents apparatus for making coal gas Mar 20 Lady Hester Stanhope sets out for ancient city of Palmyra, the first western woman to visit Mar 25 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific by the frigate Essex Feb 1813 Historical Events by Year Apr 1813 Historical Figures Authors Civil Rights Activists Inventors Kings Revolutionaries Scientists