Historical Events
- Mar 5 Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia
- Mar 7 22nd Grand National: Tommy Pickernell wins aboard Irish horse Anatis at 5/1
- Mar 9 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington
- Mar 12 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
Treaty of Interest
Mar 17 Six years after the forcible ending of Japan's isolationist policy by US Navy Commodore Matthew Perry, the Japanese Embassy arrives in San Francisco to sign a Treaty of Friendship
Matthew Perry
- Mar 21 US extradition treaty with Sweden
- Mar 24 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Francisco, 89 days out of New York
- Mar 27 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
- Mar 28 First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins (New Zealand).
- Mar 29 Dion Boucicault's "Colleen Bawn" premieres in NYC
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 2 Susanna M. Salter, 1st American female mayor and temperance leader (d. 1961)
- Mar 3 John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (d. 1925)
- Mar 11 Thomas Hastings, American architect (NY Public Library), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 12 Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
- Mar 13 Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer, born in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia (d. 1903)
William Jennings Bryan
Mar 19 William Jennings Bryan, American orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner", born in Salem, Illinois (d. 1925)
William Jennings Bryan