Historical Events
- Mar 3 Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy
- Mar 3 In the series decider England beats Scotland, 2 tries to 1 at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh to win the inaugural Home Nations Rugby Championship with an undefeated record
- Mar 16 Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman graduate of a pharmacy college
- Mar 20 Jan Matzeliger receives his 1st patent (number 274,207) for shoe lasting machine which mechanized shoe production
- Mar 20 Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property
- Mar 24 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago
- Mar 30 45th Grand National: Austrian breeder, owner Count Karel Kinsky rides Zoedone to 10 length win; only 10 starters, the smallest GN field in history; first winning jockey from outside Britain and Ireland
- Mar 31 1st performance of Caesar Franck's symphonic poem for orchestra "Le Chasseur Maudit" (The Accursed Huntsman) at the Salle Érard in Paris
- Mar 31 Utrecht, Belgium begins water pipe system
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Tom Shevlin, American College Football Hall of Fame end (Consensus All-American 1902, 04, 05; National C'ship 1902, 05; Yale University), born in Muskegon, Michigan (d. 1915)
- Mar 3 Cyril Burt, educational psychologist (d. 1971)
- Mar 4 Maude Fealy, American actor and drama coach (The Ten Commandments), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1971)
- Mar 4 Robert Emmett Keane, American stage and screen actor (The Rookie Cop; The Red Dragon), born in New York City (d. 1981)
- Mar 4 Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (World Coloured Heavyweight Champion x 5 1910-18), born in Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia (d. 1956)
- Mar 5 Marius Barbeau, French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist, born in Ste-Marie-de-Beauce, Quebec (d. 1969)
- Mar 7 Carl Deis, American composer and organist, born in New York City (d. 1960)
- Mar 7 Marion Lord, American actress (Broadway), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1942)
- Mar 8 Manuel Gómez Carrillo, Argentine composer, born in Santiago del Estero, Argentina (d. 1968)
- Mar 9 Umberto Saba, Italian writer, born in Trieste, Austria-Hungary (d. 1957)
- Mar 12 Judge Jackson, American sacred harp composer, songwriter, and educator (The Colored Sacred Harp), born in Montgomery County, Alabama (d. 1958)
- Mar 12 Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1959)
- Mar 13 Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1926)
- Mar 14 Juan Manén, Spanish composer and violinist, born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1971)
- Mar 16 Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958)
- Mar 17 Urmuz, Romanian writer (d. 1923)
- Mar 19 Josef Matthias Hauer, Austrian composer and music theorist, born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria (d. 1959)
- Mar 19 Joseph W. Stilwell, American general (commanded U.S. forces in China, Burma, and India in WWII), born in Palatka, Florida (d. 1946)
- Mar 19 Norman Haworth, British chemist (Nobel Prize, 1937), born at Chorley, Lancashire, England (d. 1950)
- Mar 20 Colin Campbell, Scottish actor (High Bright Sun, Leather Boys), born in Falkirk, Scotland (d. 1966)
- Mar 20 Karl Hasse, German composer, born in Dohna, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empre (d. 1960)
- Mar 21 Jules van Nuffel, Belgian composer, priest, and musicologist (Nova Organi Harmonia), born in Hemiksem, Belgium (d. 1953)
- Mar 24 James I Wedgwood, British theosophist and bishop (Liberal Catholic Church), born in London (d. 1951)
- Mar 27 Jan Kunc, Czech composer (Czech State Anthem), born in Doubravice nad Svitavou, Margraviate of Moravia, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1976)
- Mar 27 Marie Under, Estonian author and poet, born in Tallinn, Russian Empire (d. 1980)
- Mar 28 William Henry Harris, English composer, born in Fulham, London (d. 1973)
- Mar 29 Donald Dexter Van Slyke, American chemist (Micromanometric analysis), born in Pike, New York (d. 1971)
- Mar 30 Jo Davidson, American sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman), born in New York City (d. 1952)
Famous Deaths
Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883)
Mar 4 American Vice President of the Confederate States (1861-65) and Governor of Georgia (1882-83), dies at 71
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Mar 14 German philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), dies of bronchitis and pleurisy at 64
- Mar 15 Henry C. Wayne, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 67
- Mar 15 Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55
