Events in History
- Mar 1 Adolphe Thiers becomes prime minister of France
- Mar 14 Jose Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey" premieres in Madrid
- Mar 23 Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerreotype)
Birthdays in History
- Mar 5 Constance Fenimore Woolson, NH, writer (Jupiter Lights)
- Mar 11 Edmund Kirby Jr, American Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Brownville, New York(d. 1863)
- Mar 16 Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
- Mar 18 William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901)
- Mar 20 Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894)
- Mar 25 Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment & Irish Soldier of Fortune (d. 1876)
- Mar 26 George Smith, English archaeologist and assyriologist (cuneiform script), born in London (d. 1876)
- Mar 28 Emin Pasha, German explorer and governor (Equatoria), born in Oppeln, Silesia (d. 1892)
- Mar 29 Matteo Albertone, Italian general who fought in the Italo-Ethiopian War, born in Alessandria (d. 1919)
- Mar 31 John Herbert Kelly, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1864)
- Mar 31 Benjamin Baker, English civil engineer who designed the bridge over the Firth of Forth, Scotland and the London underground, born in Frome, England (d. 1907)
Deaths in History
- Mar 2 Wilhelm Olbers, German astronomer and physician who discovered asteroids (Pallas & Vesta), dies at 81
- Mar 22 Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician, dies at 41
- Mar 23 William Maclure, Scottish-American Geologist (first geological map), dies at 76
- Mar 28 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89
- Mar 30 George (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, dies