Historical Events
Stanley Begins African Expedition
Mar 21 Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
Prince Bismarck
Mar 21 Otto von Bismarck elevated to rank of Fürst (Prince)
- Mar 22 William Holden of North Carolina becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment
- Mar 26 Municipal elections bring revolutionaries to power in Paris who form the short lived Paris Commune government
- Mar 27 First international rugby union match - Scotland beats England, 1-0 at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh
- Mar 28 San Francisco Art Association holds open reception at 430 Pine
Royal Albert Hall
Mar 29 Royal Albert Hall opened by Queen Victoria in London
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 3 Maurice Garin, French cyclist (d. 1957)
- Mar 4 Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
- Mar 5 Maria do Carmo Geronimo, Brazilian maid, former slave and oldest Brazilian (lived to be at about 129), born in Carmo de Minas, Brazil (d. 2000)
- Mar 5 Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German Marxist revolutionary and founder of the Spartacus League, born in Zamość, Poland (d. 1919)
- Mar 6 Ben Harney, American composer and "Father of Ragtime Piano" (You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You Done Broke Down), born on the Mississippi River (d. 1938) [1]
- Mar 9 Arthur Fickenscher, American microtonal composer, and educator (University of Virginia, 1920-41), born in Aurora, Illinois (d. 1954)
- Mar 15 Betsy van den Arend, Dutch actress (Miss Hobbs), (d. 1950)
- Mar 19 Schofield Haigh, English cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 24 wickets, BB 6/11; Yorkshire CCC), born in Berry Brow, Yorkshire, England (d. 1921)
- Mar 20 Joe McGinnity, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (World Series 1905; 5 × NL wins leader; NL ERA leader 1904; Baltimore Orioles, NY Giants), born in Rock Island, Illinois (d. 1929)
- Mar 24 Leslie Gay, English cricket wicket-keeper (1 Test; Cambridge Uni, Hampshire CCC) and soccer goalkeeper (3 caps; Cambridge Uni), born in Brighton, Sussex (d. 1949)
- Mar 26 Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole, Prince of the Kingdom of Hawaii, born in Kukui‘ula, Kōloa, Kauaʻi, Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922)
- Mar 27 Heinrich Mann, German novelist and essayist (Professor Unrat); brother of Thomas, born in the Free Imperial City of Lübeck (d. 1950)
- Mar 27 Piet Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25), born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1948)
- Mar 28 Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1895-1945; New York Philharmonic, 1922-30), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1951)
- Mar 29 Tom Hayward, English cricket batsman (35 Tests, 3 x 100; HS 137; Surrey CCC), born in Cambridge (d. 1939)
Arthur Griffith (1871-1922)
Mar 31 Irish writer and politician who founded Sinn Féin (President of Ireland 1922), born in Dublin, Ireland, United Kingdom
Famous Deaths
- Mar 18 Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)
- Mar 19 Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795)
- Mar 20 Antonio Buzzolla, Italian composer, dies at 56
- Mar 22 Johnny Cuzens, Australian aboriginal cricketer (1st Australian indigenous tour to UK 1868), dies
- Mar 30 Louise, Dutch-born Queen of Sweden and Norway, dies at 42
