Historical Events
Dred Scott Decision
Mar 6 Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules Africans cannot be US citizens
- Mar 7 Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
- Mar 8 British seismologist John Milne is hired by the Japanese government as a foreign adviser (oyatoi gaikokujin)
- Mar 12 Desjardins Canal Train Disaster: Canadian Great Western passenger train crashes through rotting timber bridge over Desjardins Canal, near Hamilton, Ontario, killing 59 people [1]
Simon Boccanegra
Mar 12 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra" premieres in Venice
- Mar 16 Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti's opera "Pergolese" premieres at La Scala in Milan, Kingdom of Lombardy (now Italy)
Otis Installs First Elevator
Mar 23 Elisha Otis installs his 1st elevator at 488 Broadway in New York City
- Mar 25 Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville receives a patent for his phonautograph, a device which created visual images of sound
- Mar 25 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 3 Alfred Bruneau, French cellist, and composer, chiefly of opera (Le Rêve; Messidor), born in Paris, France (d. 1934)
George Dayton (1857-1938)
Mar 6 American businessman (founder of Target Corporation), born in Clifton Springs, New York
- Mar 7 Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian psychiatrist (1st psychiatrist to win Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1927 for malaria inoculation for dementia paralytica), born in Wels, Austria (d. 1940)
- Mar 16 Charles Harding Firth, British historian, born in Ecclesall, Sheffield, England (d. 1936)
- Mar 22 Arnold Sauwen, Belgium poet (Along the Meuse), born in Stokkem, Belgium (d. 1938)
- Mar 22 Paul Doumer, French politician (Governor-General of French Indochina 1897-1902, 13th President of France 1931-32), born in Aurillac, France (d. 1932)
- Mar 23 Fannie Farmer, American culinary pioneer who revolutionised modern cooking through the introduction of precise measurements (Boston Cooking-School Cook Book), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1915)
- Mar 27 Karl Pearson, British statistician (leading founder of the modern field of statistics), born in London (d. 1936)
- Mar 30 Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 11 Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author and poet (A la paz), dies at 84
- Mar 17 Adolph Trube, German composer and organist, dies at 42
- Mar 21 Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Dutch lexicographer (Biographic dictionary), dies at 64
- Mar 26 Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar and geographer of Qing Dynasty, dies at 62
