Historical Events
- Mar 1 SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbour with apprpx 480 passengers and crew; she was never seen again
- Mar 1 German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
- Mar 1 16th Grand National: John Tasker wins aboard race favourite Bourton at 4/1
- Mar 7 Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
Event of Interest
Mar 8 US Commodore Matthew C. Perry's second trip to Japan
Matthew C. Perry
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 4 Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
- Mar 8 Tom Horan, Australian cricketer (Ireland Pioneering Aust all-rounder), born in Midleton, Ireland (d. 1916)
- Mar 14 Paul Ehrlich, German bacteriologist and physician (Chemotherapy, Nobel Prize 1908), Strehlen, Lower Silesia, German Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1915)
- Mar 14 Thomas Riley Marshall, 28th Vice President of U.S. (1913-21), born in North Manchester, Indiana (d. 1925)
- Mar 14 Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer, born in Bucharest (d. 1920)
- Mar 14 John Lane, British publisher (The Bodley Head), born in Devon (d. 1925)
- Mar 15 Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
- Mar 21 Alick A C Bannerman, cricketer (bro of Charles, Australia 1878-1893)
- Mar 23 Alfred Milner, Giessen Germany, British governor (Cape colony)
- Mar 26 Braulio Dueno Colon, Puerto Rican composer, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico (d. 1934)
- Mar 31 Dugald Clerk, inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine)