Historical Events
Alexander Graham Bell Patents Telephone
Mar 7 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US
- Mar 7 Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
Bell's 1st Telephone Call
Mar 10 First telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you" to his assistant Thomas Watson
- Mar 11 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers and Old Etonians draw, 1-1; Wanderers win replay, 3-0 for 3rd title
- Mar 16 Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
- Mar 17 British high jump champion Marshall Jones Brooks clears 1.83m at Oxford, England for unofficial world record; thought to be first leap over 6'
- Mar 17 General Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux Indian camps
- Mar 18 English FA Cup Final Replay, Kennington Oval, London: Wanderers beat Old Etonians, 3-0 after initial 1-1 draw; Wanderers 3rd title
- Mar 24 38th Grand National: Joe Cannon aboard 25/1 chance Regal wins by a neck from Congress
Agostino Depretis Prime Minister
Mar 25 Agostino Depretis becomes Prime Minister of Italy for the first time as head of a left-leaning government
- Mar 25 Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland defeat Wales (4-0)
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian aristocrat (3rd President International Olympic Committee 1925-42), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1942)
Pius XII (1876-1958)
Mar 2 260th Roman Catholic Pope (1939-58), born in Rome, Kingdom of Italy
- Mar 4 Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (Tancrède), born in Paris, France (d. 1947)
- Mar 4 Theodore Hardeen, Magician and stunt performer, founder of the Magician's Guild (d. 1945)
- Mar 5 Elizabeth Moore, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1896, 1901, 03, 05), born in Brooklyn, NY (d. 1959)
- Mar 7 Edgar Evans, Welsh explorer (part of Robert Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica), born in Rhossili, Wales (d. 1912)
- Mar 8 Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer (Puccini's Turandot), born in Posillipo, Italy (d. 1954)
- Mar 10 Edvard Eriksen, Danish-Icelandic sculptor, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1959)
- Mar 11 Carl Ruggles, American composer (Evocations), born in Marion, Massachusetts (d. 1971)
- Mar 11 David Wijnkoop, Dutch socialist, and later communist politician, and journalist, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1941)
- Mar 16 Charles Halton, British stage actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1959)
- Mar 17 Frederic Ayers, American composer, born in Binghamton, New York (d. 1926)
- Mar 20 Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1927)
- Mar 21 Walter Tewksbury, American track and field athlete (Olympics, 1920 - 2 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze), and dentist, born in Ashley, Pennsylvania (d. 1968) [1]
- Mar 23 Muirhead Bone, Scottish etcher and painter (WWI & WWII war artist), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1953)
- Mar 26 Prince William of Wied, Prince of Albania (1914-25), born in Neuwied, German Empire (d. 1945)
- Mar 29 Joseph Schmidlin, German clergyman, church historian, and anti-fascist, born in Petit-Landau, German Empire (now France) (d. 1944)
- Mar 30 Clifford Whittingham Beers, American mental hygiene pioneer, born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1943)
- Mar 31 Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (d. 1927)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 4 Alfred Holmes, English violinist and composer, dies at 38
- Mar 5 Marie d'Agoult [pen name Daniel Stern], French author and mother of composer Franz Liszt's children, dies at 70
- Mar 9 Louise Colet, French Romantic poet who had long affair with Gustave Flaubert, dies at 65
- Mar 18 Ferdinand Freiligrath, German poet and translator, dies at 65
- Mar 19 Jozef Stefani, Polish composer, dies at 75
- Mar 21 Wilson Cary Swann, American physician, philanthropist, social reformer, and namesake of landmark fountain in Philadelphia's Logan Square, dies at 69 [1]
- Mar 27 Hambletonian "daddy of 'em all", American top sire standardbred horse, dies after siring over 1,300 foals at 26 [1]
- Mar 31 Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, American singer, known as "The Black Swan", who performed at Buckingham Palace for Queen Victoria, dies at about 57 [birthdate uncertain]
