Events in History
- Mar 2 Interstate commerce comes under federal control
- Mar 4 The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.
- Mar 5 First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma
- Mar 11 US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Mar 17 Britain & Netherlands sign a trade agreement
- Mar 21 Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
Birthdays in History
- Mar 2 Konstantin Ushinsky, Russian educationalist, credited as the founder of scientific pedagogy in Russia
- Mar 2 Henry Beebee Carrington, American lawyer, professor, prolific author, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Wallingford, Connecticut (d. 1912)
- Mar 5 Elisha Harris, American physician/found American Public Health Assoc
- Mar 5 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
- Mar 9 Leland Stanford, American business tycoon, 8th Governor of California and founder of Stanford University, born in Watervliet, New York (d. 1893)
- Mar 10 Thomas James Churchill, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1905)
- Mar 12 Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy, coined "black body" radiation), born in Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1887)
- Mar 15 Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising)
- Mar 15 Jules Chevalier, French priest (d. 1907)
- Mar 22 William Henry Chase Whiting, American Major General (Confederate Army), born in Biloxi, Mississippi (d. 1865)
- Mar 25 Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
- Mar 29 Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician, born in Darmstadt, Germany (d. 1899)
- Mar 30 Innis Newton Palmer, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1900)
Deaths in History
- Mar 9 Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/Friesland, dies at 79