Historical Events
Benjamin Harrison
Mar 4 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd US President
- Mar 9 Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV
- Mar 9 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
- Mar 12 Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
- Mar 12 Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth
- Mar 14 August Strindberg's "Froken Julie" premieres in Copenhagen
- Mar 15 6 US & German warships sunk by a typhoon in Apia harbour, Samoa, 200 die
- Mar 23 The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London
- Mar 25 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town v England
- Mar 26 English cricketer Johnny Briggs takes 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) at Newlands as South Africa are all out for 47 with Bernard Tancred not out on 26, then follow-on and are again all out for 43
- Mar 29 51st Grand National: Jockey Tommy Beasley wins his third GN aboard Irish 2-time runner-up Frigate at 8/1
Eiffel Tower Opens
Mar 31 Eiffel Tower officially opens, for dignitaries and an award ceremony, in Paris, France; designed by Gustave Eiffel and built for the Exposition Universelle, at 300m high it retains the record for the tallest man made structure for 41 years
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (d. 1960)
- Mar 3 Fritz Behrend, German composer, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1972)
- Mar 4 Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai'i (d. 1965)
- Mar 4 Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967)
- Mar 4 Pearl White [Victoria], American actress and stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), born in Green Ridge, Missouri (d. 1938)
- Mar 8 Oscar Ewing, US government official (Everybody's Business), born in Greensburg, Indiana (d. 1980)
- Mar 12 Philip Guedalla, English barrister and historian, born in London, England (d. 1944)
- Mar 12 Þórbergur Þórðarson, Icelandic author (d. 1974)
- Mar 16 Reggie Walker, South African athlete (Olympic gold 100m 1908), born in Durban, South Africa (d. 1951)
- Mar 21 Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat and genealogist, born in Vienna (d. 1965)
- Mar 24 Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
- Mar 26 Václav Kaprál, Czech composer, pianist, and pedagogue, born in Určice, Lands of the Bohemian Crown, Austrian Empire (d. 1947)
- Mar 27 Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer and translator, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1974)
- Mar 29 Howard Lindsay, American playwright, actor and director (State of the Union), born in Waterford, New York (d. 1968)
Warner Baxter (1889-1951)
Mar 29 American actor (In Old Arizona, Cisco Kid), born in Columbus, Ohio
Famous Deaths
- Mar 3 (Edward) Sydney Smith, British pianist and composer, dies at 49
John Ericsson (1803-1889)
Mar 8 Swedish-American inventor (screw propeller, rotating turret), dies at 85
- Mar 10 Yohannes IV [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle
- Mar 12 John Archibald Campbell, American jurist and Supreme Court justice (1853–61), dies at 77
- Mar 15 Melville Reuben Bissell, American inventor of the carpet sweeper, dies of pneumonia at 45
- Mar 17 Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch poet (Dietsche Warande), dies at 68
- Mar 18 William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66
- Mar 21 August von Pettenkofen, Austrian outdoor painter, dies at 66
- Mar 27 John Bright, English reform politician and anti0war advocate, dies at 77
- Mar 27 Moritz Fürstenau, German composer, dies at 64
- Mar 28 Matilde "Tillie" Ziegler, killed by husband William Kemmler
