Template:On this day/March 11

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

March 11:

• 1865 – John B. Dodd died in the fifty-seventh year of his age. He was buried in the family section of Maplewood Cemetery.
• 1820 – Proctor Arthur S. Brockenbrough posted a notice The Central Gazette issue, Charlottesville’s first newspaper, promising “liberal wages” for laborers willing to work at UVA. The University of Virginia was an early advertiser.
• 1901 – At nine o’clock this evening, City Treasurer John L. Walters was shot and killed by his brother-in-law, Stuart R. Bailey received three wounds. The two men got into a “difficulty” at the Walters residence on Ridge Street, drew their revolvers and emptied them at each other. Walters was shot five times.
• 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The University of Virginia in Charlottesville announced that classes will be moved online beginning on March 19 "for the foreseeable future, quite possibly through the end of the semester."