Events in History
- Mar 4 1st US railroad chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachusetts
- Mar 14 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama
Birthdays in History
- Mar 4 John Buford, American Major General (Union Army), born in Woodford County, Kentucky (d. 1863)
- Mar 4 Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
- Mar 17 Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (Volkerkunder)
- Mar 20 Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor
- Mar 29 Wilhelm Liebknecht, German socialist (Social Democratic Party), born in Giessen, Germany (d. 1900)