Historic Event
Mar 8 US Commodore Matthew C. Perry's second trip to Japan
- Mar 17 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Massachusetts
- Mar 20 Boston Public Library opens in Boston, Massachusetts as the first large free municipal library in the US [1]
- Mar 28 Great Britain and France declare war on Russia, expanding the Crimean War
- Mar 31 Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to US