Historical Events
- Mar 1 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents movie machine (never built)
- Mar 1 Rebecca Lee in the US becomes 1st African American woman to receive a medical degree
- Mar 5 1st track meet between Oxford & Cambridge
- Mar 9 26th Grand National: George Stevens wins his 3rd GN aboard 10/1 Emblematic; winning mare's full sister Emblem the race winner the previous year
Commander of the Army Ulysses S. Grant
Mar 9 Ulysses S. Grant is named Commanding General of the U.S. (Union) Army
Petite Messe Solennelle
Mar 14 Gioachino Rossini's sacred work "Petite Messe Solennelle" premieres at his home in Paris, France
- Mar 14 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
- Mar 15 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, Louisiana
Music Premiere
Mar 19 Charles Gounod's opera "Mireille" premieres at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris, France
- Mar 21 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
- Mar 23 Encounter at Camden, Arkansas
- Mar 25 Battle of Paducah, Kentucky (Forrest's raid)
- Mar 29 Great Britain gives the Ionian Islands back to Greece
- Mar 29 Union General Steeles troops reach Arkadelphia, Arkansas
- Mar 30 Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 4 David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (1st towing tank), born in Louisa County, Virginia (d. 1940)
- Mar 7 George Bean, English cricket batsman (3 Tests, 1 x 50; Sussex CCC), born in Sutton-in-Ashfield, England (d. 1923)
- Mar 12 W. H. R. Rivers, British psychiatrist (d. 1922)
- Mar 13 Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter, born in Torzhok, Russia (d. 1941)
- Mar 14 Casey [John] Jones, American railroad engineer who dies trying to save a train (Ballad of Casey Jones), born in Missouri (d. 1900)
- Mar 15 Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian violinist, conductor (Nationaltheatret Orchestra, 1899-1929), and composer (Bergensiana), born in Drammen, Norway (d. 1934)
- Mar 15 Leslie Stuart, [Thomas Barrett], British musical theater composer (Florodora), born in Southport, Lancashire, England (d. 1928)
- Mar 18 Mikael Lybeck, Finnish-Swedish language poet (Samlade Arbeten), born in Nykarleby, Finland (d. 1925)
- Mar 19 Charles Marion Russell, American artist, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1926)
- Mar 23 Hjalmar Borgstrom [Jensen], Norwegian composer (Hvæm er du med de tusene navne (Who are you with a thousand names)), and music critic, born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway (d. 1925)
- Mar 23 Louis Glass, Danish pianist and composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1936)
- Mar 30 Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist and economist (The State), born in Berlin, Prussia (d. 1943)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 3 Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21
- Mar 4 Thomas Starr King, American Unitarian clergyman and lecturer who advocated for California to remain in the Union (Christianity & Humanity), dies of an illness at 39
- Mar 10 Maximilian II of Bavaria, King of Bavaria (1848-64), dies at 52
- Mar 16 Robert Smith Surtees, British novelist (Jorrocks’s Jaunts and Jollities), dies at 58
- Mar 17 Alexandre Calamo, Swiss painter, etcher and lithographer, dies at 53
- Mar 21 Luke Howard, British manufacturing chemist and meteorologist (nomenclature system for clouds), dies at 91
- Mar 27 Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
- Mar 30 Louis Schindelmeisser, German clarinetist and composer, dies 52
