Historical Events
- Mar 1 Library of Hawaii founded
- Mar 3 1st female lawyer heard by US Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
- Mar 3 US Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior
- Mar 23 War of the Pacific fought between Chile and the joints forces of Bolivia and Peru. Chile successfully takes over Arica and Tarapacá, leaving Bolivia a landlocked country.
- Mar 27 Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
- Mar 28 41st Grand National: Garry Moore aboard 5/1 chance The Liberator wins by 2 lengths from Jackal
- Mar 29 English FA Cup Final, Kennington Oval, London: Old Etonians beat Clapham Rovers, 1-0; Charles Clerke scores winner
Music Premiere
Mar 29 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.'s opera "Jevgeni Onegin", based on the novel by Alexander Pushkin, premieres Maly Theatre in Moscow, Russia
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 4 Bernhard Kellermann, German writer (Der Tunnel), born in Fürth, Germany (d. 1951)
- Mar 5 Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
- Mar 5 Walter Long, American actor (Moby-Dick, Sheik, Sea Devils, Dragnet Patrol), born in Nashua, New Hampshire (d. 1952)
- Mar 8 Mechtilde Lichnowsky, German writer, born in Pocking, Bavaria (d. 1958)
- Mar 8 Otto Hahn, German physicist and chemist (Nobel 1944, radiothorium/actinium), born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1968)
- Mar 11 Justus Hermann Wetzel, German composer, born in n Kyritz, Germany (d. 1973)
- Mar 11 Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph tests), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1958)
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Mar 14 German-born theoretical physicist famous for his theory of relativity and E = mc2 (1921 Nobel Prize for Physics), born in Ulm, German Empire
Cluny MacPherson (1879-1966)
Mar 18 Canadian doctor and inventor of the gas mask, born in St. John's, Newfoundland
- Mar 19 Joseph Haas, German late romantic opera composer (Tobias Wunderlich, Totenmesse), born in Maihingen, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (d. 1960)
- Mar 20 Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (d. 1960)
- Mar 25 Otakar Zich, Czech composer, born in Městec Králové. Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1934)
- Mar 25 Rockley Wilson, English cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 3 wickets; Cambridge University, Yorkshire CCC), born in Bolsterstone, England (d. 1957)
- Mar 26 Othmar Ammann, Swiss-American bridge engineer (George Washington Bridge; Walt Whitman Bridge; Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge), born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland (d. 1965)
- Mar 27 Edward Steichen, Luxembourgish-American photographer (The Family of Man), born in Bivange, Luxembourg (d. 1973)
- Mar 30 Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater (World Alllround Speed Skating champion 1905), born in Edam. Netherlands (d. 1954)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Joachim Heer, Swiss politician, dies at 54
- Mar 2 John Eberhard Faber, German-American pencil manufacturer and built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US, dies at 56
- Mar 13 Adolf Anderssen, German World Chess Champion (1851-66), dies at 60
- Mar 30 David van der Kellen, Dutch coin engraver, dies at 74
- Mar 30 Thomas Couture, French painter/author, dies at 63
