Historical Events
- Mar 3 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece)
- Mar 6 Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze" premieres in London
- Mar 7 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends
Music Premiere
Mar 11 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice
Giuseppe Verdi
- Mar 25 Yosemite Valley discovered in California
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 3 Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (d. 1911)
- Mar 15 Jozef Surzynski, composer
- Mar 16 Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
- Mar 19 Roque Saenz Pena, President of Argentina (1910-14)
- Mar 19 William Henry Stark, American business leader (d. 1936)
- Mar 27 Ruperto Chapi, Spanish composer, born in Villena, Spain (d. 1909)
- Mar 27 Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher, born in Paris (d. 1931)
- Mar 28 Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (1915–17, 1925–26), born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 1944)
Famous Deaths
Hans Christian Ørsted
- Mar 11 George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
