- 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