Historical Events
- Mar 4 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
James A. Garfield
Mar 4 James A. Garfield inaugurated as the 20th President of the United States of America
- Mar 4 Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson begin their 1st case together in "A Study in Scarlet"
Boer War Ceasefire
Mar 4 South African politician Paul Kruger accepts ceasefire during First Boer War
Alexander II
Mar 13 Alexander II of Russia is assassinated by members of far-left terror group 'People's Will' who throw a bomb at him in the city of St. Petersburg
The Greatest Show on Earth
Mar 18 Barnum & Bailey Circus, traveling as "The Greatest Show on Earth", debuts at Madison Square Garden in New York City following the merger of two existing circus groups [1]
- Mar 23 Boers & Britain sign peace accord; end 1st Boer war
- Mar 23 Gas lamp sets fire to Théâtre Municipal” opera house in Nice, France; 70 die, and building completely destroyed
- Mar 25 43rd Grand National: Irish jockey Tommy Beasley wins his second consecutive GN aboard 11/2 co-favourite Woodbrook
- Mar 26 Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again
- Mar 27 Rioting takes place in Basingstoke, Hampshire in England, to protest against the Salvation Army's daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance
- Mar 28 "Greatest Show On Earth" formed by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 4 Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
- Mar 4 Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (Pulitzer Prize 1933), born in Clifton, Tennessee (d. 1965)
- Mar 4 Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary, army officer, Macedonian freedom fighter, and teacher, born in Novo Selo, Ottoman Empire (d. 1924)
- Mar 9 Ernest Bevin, British Minister of Labour (1940-45) and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1945-51), born in Winsford, Sommerset, England (d. 1951)
- Mar 10 Thomas Quinlan, British opera impresario, born in Bury, England (d. 1951)
- Mar 12 Daniel Hoan, American politician (longest Socialist administration in the US as Mayor of Milwaukee 1916-40), born in Waukesha, Wisconsin (d. 1961)
- Mar 12 Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist (d. 1923)
- Mar 13 Balthazar Huibrecht Verhagen, Dutch dramatist and writer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1950)
- Mar 17 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Less bror Harris), born in Trondheim, Norway (d. 1947)
- Mar 17 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
- Mar 18 Oliver Seibert, Canadian hall of fame hockey player (elected 1963), born in Berlin, Ontario (d. 1944)
- Mar 18 Paul Le Flem, French composer and music critic, born in Radon, France (d. 1984)
- Mar 20 Eugène Schueller, French chemist, founder of L'Oréal, born in Paris, France (d. 1957)
- Mar 21 Herman Sandby, Danish cellist and composer, born in Kundby, Denmark (d. 1965)
Hans Wilsdorf (1881-1960)
Mar 22 German businessman and founder of Rolex and Tudor, born in Kulmbach, Bavaria
- Mar 23 Egon Petri, Dutch classical pianist, born in Hanover, Germany (d. 1962)
- Mar 23 Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and plastics researcher (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1953 for polymers), born in Worms, Germany (d. 1962)
- Mar 23 Roger Martin du Gard, French novelist (Les Thibault, 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France (d. 1958)
Béla Bartok (1881-1945)
Mar 25 Hungarian pianist, composer (Concerto for Orchestra), and ethnomusicologist, born in Nagyszentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
Famous Deaths
- Mar 6 Horatia Nelson, the illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (b. 1801)
Alexander II (1818-1881)
Mar 13 Tsar of Russia (1855-81), assassinated by members of far-left terror group 'People's Will' at 62
- Mar 15 Emory Upton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), commits suicide at 41
- Mar 21 Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (b. 1793)
- Mar 23 Nikolay Rubinstein, Russian pianist, conductor, and composer, dies at 45
- Mar 24 Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republican politician, dies at 69
- Mar 24 Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)
- Mar 26 Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat and general, dies at 80
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Mar 28 Russian composer (Boris Godunov; Night on Bald Mountain; Pictures at an Exhibition), dies from complications of alcoholism at 42
- Mar 31 Gaetano Gaspari, composer, dies at 73