Historical Events
- Mar 3 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece)
Theater Premiere
Mar 6 Dion Boucicault's play "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
- Mar 25 Yosemite Valley discovery made public by Major James D. Savage and Captain John Boling after being shown by Indian guides in California
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 3 Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (d. 1911)
- Mar 15 Józef Surzyński, Polish organist, composer, conductor, and theologian, born in Śrem, Poland (d, 1919)
- Mar 16 Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (1st to coin the name virus), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (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)
Vincent d'Indy
Mar 27 Vincent d'Indy, French composer (Symphony on a French Mountain Air), 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
- Mar 11 George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
