Historical Events
Event of Interest
Mar 14 Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth" at the Teatro della Pergola, Florence

Giuseppe Verdi
Famous Birthdays
Alexander Graham Bell
Mar 3 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born British-American inventor (telephone), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1922)

Alexander Graham Bell
Kate Sheppard
Mar 10 Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragette and the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, born in Liverpool, England (d. 1934)

Kate Sheppard
- Mar 14 Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes), born in Muritiba, Brazil (d. 1871)
- Mar 19 Constantin Dimitrescu, Romanian composer (Dans ţănănesc), born in Blejoi, Romania (d. 1928)
- Mar 23 Alexandru D Xenopol, Romania, historian
- Mar 27 Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), born in Königsberg, Germany (d. 1931)
- Mar 31 Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer
- Mar 31 Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)