Historical Events
- Mar 1 Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
- Mar 3 14th Grand National: Alec Goodman wins first of 2 GN victories (1866) aboard Miss Mowbray
- Mar 7 Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law
- Mar 13 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Mar 20 Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is published in Boston
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (Entente Cordiale), born in Pamiers, France (d. 1923)
- Mar 6 Josef Bayer, Austrian composer, and music director (Austrian Court Ballet, 1883-1913), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1913)
- Mar 15 Augusta Gregory [Lady Gregory], Irish writer and playwright (Golden Apple) and theatre manager (co-founded Abbey theatre), born in Roxborough, Ireland (d. 1932)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 4 Nikolai Gogol [Nikolay], Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist (Dead Souls, The Inspector-General), dies at 43
- Mar 12 Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer, dies at 75
- Mar 22 Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel, queen consort of Denmark and Norway, dies at 84
- Mar 25 Alexis Garaudé, French composer and pedagogue, dies at 73
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