- Mar 1 5th Grand National: Tom Olliver aboard 12/1 Vanguard wins; first year race run as a handicap
- Mar 3 Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US
- Mar 7 1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
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