- Mar 2 4th Grand National: Tom Olliver aboard 7/1 Gaylad wins by 4 lengths from Seventy Four
Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony
Mar 3 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd ("Scottish") Symphony in Leipzig Gewandhaus
- Mar 3 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed in Massachusetts
- Mar 5 Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
Nabucco
Mar 9 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco" premieres in Milan
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