Historical Events
Hayes Declared President
Mar 2 US Electoral Commission declares Rutherford B. Hayes (R) winner of the presidential election with an electoral vote of 185-184 against Samuel J. Tilden (D)
- Mar 3 Rutherford B. Hayes takes the oath of office privately as official inauguration day falls on a Sunday
Swan Lake
Mar 4 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" has its world premiere, performed by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow
- Mar 4 Tchaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer" premieres in Moscow
- Mar 5 Rutherford B. Hayes publicly inaugurated as 19th President of the United States
- Mar 12 Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony, Southern Africa.
Greenwood Patents Earmuffs
Mar 13 American Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs after inventing them at age 15
- Mar 15 Australian batsman Charles Bannerman completes first Test century in cricket history in 1st Test v England in Melbourne; retires hurt on 165 the following day
- Mar 15 Cricket's inaugural Test match commences as Australia plays England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground; Australia wins by 45 runs in 4 days
- Mar 17 Australia's English born all-rounder Billy Midwinter completes Test cricket's first 5-wicket haul, 5-78 in the first ever Test match v England in Melbourne
Frederick Douglass D.C. Marshal
Mar 18 US President Rutherford B. Hayes appoints Frederick Douglass marshal of Washington, D.C.
- Mar 19 Australia beat England by 45 runs in very first Test match
- Mar 23 39th Grand National: Fred Hobson aboard 15/1 shot Austerlitz wins by 4 lengths from Congress
- Mar 24 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers beat Oxford University, 2–1 (a.e.t.); Wanderers' 4th title
- Mar 24 University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat
- Mar 31 British High Commissioner Sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown
- Mar 31 The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Saigo army in Ōita Nakatsu rebels.
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 4 Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Russian composer and pianist, born in Moscow (d. 1957)
- Mar 4 Daniël George van Beuningen, Dutch coal merchant (Rotterdam) and art collector, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1955)
- Mar 4 Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
- Mar 4 Garrett Morgan, American inventor (gas mask and traffic signal), born in Claysville, Kentucky (d. 1963) [1]
- Mar 9 Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist and biochemist, born in Oberuzwil, Switzerland (d. 1950)
- Mar 12 Wilhelm Frick, German leading Nazi official and war criminal (Minister of the Interior, responsible for concentration camps), born in Alsenz, German Empire (d. 1946)
- Mar 15 Malcolm Whitman, American tennis player (US Nat C'ships 1898-1900), born in New York, NY (d. 1932)
- Mar 17 Albert Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1918)
- Mar 18 Clem Hill, Australian cricket batsman and captain (49 Tests, 7 x 100, HS 191; South Australia CA), born in Adelaide, Australia (d. 1945)
- Mar 18 Edgar Cayce, American psychic (d. 1945)
- Mar 25 Walter Little, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
- Mar 29 Reginald Goss-Custard, British organist, arranger and composer (Chelsea Fayre), born in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England (d. 1956)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Jack McCall, American gold miner and murderer, executed by hanging for the murder of Wild Bill Hicock at about 24 [date of birth uncertain]
- Mar 4 Hendrik van Rijgersma, Dutch governor (St Maarten), dies at 42
- Mar 9 Mark Prager Lindo, English-Dutch writer (The Dutch Spectator), dies at 58
- Mar 12 Cristóbal Oudrid, Spanish pianist, conductor, and orchestral and zarzuela composer (Rondeña; El molinero de Subiza), dies of bacterial pneumonia at 52
- Mar 13 Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor and Shakespearean critic, dies at 89
- Mar 24 Walter Bagehot, English journalist and economist (founded National Review), dies at 51
- Mar 25 Elkanah Brackin Greer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 51
- Mar 28 Vincenzo Fioravanti, Italian composer, dies at 77
- Mar 31 Antoine Cournot, French philosopher and mathematician (rule of Cournot), dies at 75
