Historical Events
- Mar 2 1st grand opera in US sung in English, NYC
John Quincy Adams
Mar 4 John Quincy Adams inaugurated as the 6th US President
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 5 Hans Balatka, Moravian-American conductor (Milwaukee Musikverein; Chicago Oratorio Society), author (Condensed History of Music), and composer, born in Hoffnungsthal bei Olmütz, Moravia (d. 1899)
- Mar 5 John Dunovant, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
- Mar 5 Joseph Albert, German photographer (albertotype), born in Munich (d. 1886)
- Mar 7 Francesco Faà di Bruno, Italian mathematician, and later Catholic priest and advocate for the poor, born in Alessandria, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy) (d. 1888)
- Mar 9 Alexander F. Mozhaiski, Russian aviation pioneer, born in Rochensalm, Russian Empire (d. 1890)
- Mar 20 William Beall, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army, relief efforts for prisoners), born in Bardstown, Kentucky (d. 1883)
- Mar 23 Edward Lloyd Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1898)
- Mar 30 Samuel Bell Maxey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1895)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 4 Raphaelle Peale, American painter (After the Rain, 1823), dies at 51
- Mar 9 Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet and writer of hymns (Life! I Know Not What Thou Art), dies at 81
- Mar 24 Giovanni Domenico Perotti, Italian composer, dies at 64
- Mar 25 Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch politician (Grand Pensionary of Batavian Commonwealth), and diplomat. dies at 63
