Events in History
- Mar 2 The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was held in Edinburgh.
- Mar 7 Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro
- Mar 19 Charles IV, king of Spain, abdicates after riots and a popular revolt at the winter palace Aranjuez. His son, Ferdinand VII, takes the throne
Birthdays in History
- Mar 12 Gerrit van der Linde Jz, "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet
- Mar 14 Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Zanesville, Ohio (d. 1888)
- Mar 23 Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, sociologist/historian (Statistic yearbook)
- Mar 25 Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary and poet (Cortes)