Historical Events
- Mar 2 4th Grand National: Tom Olliver aboard 7/1 Gaylad wins by 4 lengths from Seventy Four
Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony
Mar 3 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd ("Scottish") Symphony in Leipzig Gewandhaus
- Mar 3 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed in Massachusetts
- Mar 5 Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
Nabucco
Mar 9 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco" premieres in Milan
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Nicholaos Gysis, Greek painter (d. 1901)
- Mar 2 Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer (Carlsburg), and philanthropist, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1914)
- Mar 10 Ina Coolbrith, American poet laureate of California (1st poet laureate of any US state), born in Nauvoo, Illinois (d. 1928)
- Mar 18 Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
- Mar 22 Carl Rosa, German-born violinist and composer (founder of the Rosa opera company that toured UK and US), born in Hamburg, German Confederation (d. 1889)
- Mar 22 Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (Taras Bulba), conductor and ethnomusicologist, born in Hrynky, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1912)
- Mar 30 John Fiske [Edmund Fisk Green], American historian and philosopher, born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1901)
Famous Weddings
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Mar 26 Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi (34) weds Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro (20) in Montevideo
Famous Deaths
- Mar 4 James Forten, African-American abolitionist and businessman who used his wealth to push for civil rights and the abolition of slavery, dies at 75
- Mar 6 Constanze Mozart, wife of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
- Mar 7 Christian Theodor Weinlig, German composer, dies at 61
- Mar 13 Henry Shrapnel, English Army officer and inventor (created the shrapnel shell), dies at 80
- Mar 15 Luigi Cherubini, Italian musical prodigy, composer (Médée; Requiem in D minor), and educator (Conservatoire de Paris, 1822-42), dies at 81
- Mar 23 Stendhal [Marie-Henri Beyle], French author (Le Rouge et de Noir, a Chartreuse de Parme), dies at 59
- Mar 30 Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755)
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