Historical Events
- Mar 1 16th Grand National: John Tasker wins aboard race favourite Bourton at 4/1
- Mar 1 German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
- Mar 1 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbour with approximately 480 passengers and crew; she was never seen again
- Mar 7 Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
Perry Expedition
Mar 8 US Commodore Matthew C. Perry's second trip to Japan
- Mar 17 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Massachusetts
Republican Party Founded
Mar 20 Anti-slavery activists within the US Whig political party opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act form a new Republican Party; notable politicians who switched allegiance include Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison
- Mar 20 Boston Public Library opens in Boston, Massachusetts as the first large free municipal library in the US [1]
- Mar 20 Republican Party formally organized in Ripon, Wisconsin
- Mar 28 Great Britain and France declare war on Russia, expanding the Crimean War
- Mar 31 Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to US
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 4 Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
- Mar 8 Tom Horan, Australian cricket all-rounder (15 Tests, 1 x 100, 11 wickets; Victoria CA), born in Midleton, Ireland (d. 1916)
- Mar 14 Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer, born in Bucharest (d. 1920)
- Mar 14 John Lane, British publisher (The Bodley Head), born in Devon (d. 1925)
- Mar 14 Paul Ehrlich, German bacteriologist and physician (Chemotherapy, Nobel Prize 1908), Strehlen, Lower Silesia, German Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1915)
- Mar 14 Thomas Riley Marshall, 28th Vice President of U.S. (1913-21), born in North Manchester, Indiana (d. 1925)
- Mar 15 Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
- Mar 21 Alick Bannerman, Australian cricket batsman (28 Tests, 8 x 50s; NSW 1876–94), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1924)
- Mar 23 Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony) and colonial administrator, born in Giessen, Grand Duchy of Hesse (d. 1925)
- Mar 26 Braulio Dueño Colón, Puerto Rican composer, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico (d. 1934)
- Mar 30 Stanley Robison, American civil engineer, streetcar magnate, and baseball team owner (Cleveland Spiders, 1887-99; St. Louis Cardinals, 1899-1911), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1911)
- Mar 31 Dugald Clerk, Scottish engineer and inventor (1st 2-stroke motorcycle engine), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1932)
