Events in History
- Mar 6 Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor
- Mar 9 French Foreign Legion is founded
Event of Interest
Mar 16 Charles Darwin, aboard HMS Beagle, anchors in the recently British-acquired Falklands Islands for the first time

Charles Darwin
Birthdays in History
Gottlieb Daimler
Mar 17 Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and inventor, designed 1st motorcycle, born in Schorndorf, Kingdom of Württemberg (d. 1900)

Gottlieb Daimler
- Mar 20 Charles William Elliot, President of Harvard (1869-1909), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Mar 22 Francis Asbury Shoup, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1896)
- Mar 24 John Wesley Powell, American geologist/explorer/ethnologist
- Mar 24 William Morris, England, designer/craftsman/poet/socialist
Weddings in History
Wedding of Interest
Mar 31 Religious leader Brigham Young (32) weds herbalist Mary Ann Angell (27)

Brigham Young
Deaths in History
- Mar 12 Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, German mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at 33