Historical Events
- Mar 2 New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston
Andrew Jackson
Mar 4 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th US President
- Mar 4 Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Andrew Jackson's inaugural ball
- Mar 6 President Andrew Jackson nominates John McLean to become an associate justice of the US Supreme Court
- Mar 7 US Senate confirms John McLean as associate justice of the US Supreme Court
St Matthew Passion
Mar 11 Johann Sebastian Bach's "St Matthew Passion" is revived by Felix Mendelssohn, aged 20, conducting in Berlin, Germany
- Mar 16 Ohio authorizes high school night classes
Joseph Grimaldi Bows Out
Mar 17 Final performance by famous clown Joseph Grimaldi at a benefit performance at Sadler's Wells, London
- Mar 22 The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 2 Carl Schurz, German-American journalist and Major General (Union Army), born in Erftstadt, Germany (d. 1906)
- Mar 14 Charles Charlesworth, English boy who died of old age (Progoria) before he was 7 years old, born in Straffordshire, England (d. 1836)
- Mar 18 William R Boggs, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) and chief of engineers, born in Augusta, Georgia (d. 1911)
- Mar 19 Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist, born in Odense, Denmark (d. 1901)
- Mar 20 Charles Albert White, American popular song composer ("Marguerite"), born in Taunton, Massachusetts (d. 1892)
- Mar 24 George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)
- Mar 24 Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)
- Mar 29 Ritta & Christina Parodi, Siamese twins, born in Sassare, Sardinia (d. 1829)
- Mar 29 Robert Emmet Rodes, American Civil War Confederate Army Major General, born in Lynchburg, Virginia (d. 1864)
