- Mar 1 US Postage stamps showing scenes issued for 1st time. These pictorials showed a post horse and rider, a locomotive, a shield, an eagle and a ship, the Adriatic.
- Mar 3 31st Grand National: George Stevens wins his 4th GN aboard 100/7 outsider The Colonel; repeats with back-to-back victories the following year
- Mar 3 University of South Carolina opens to all races
Ulysses S. Grant
Mar 4 Ulysses S. Grant inaugurated as 18th US President
Periodic Table
Mar 6 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society
- Mar 11 The West first learns of the Giant Panda via French missionary Armand David who receives a skin from a hunter
- Mar 13 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan law
- Mar 14 Defeat of Maori Ngāti Ruanui leader Riwha Titokowaru in Taranaki, New Zealand by British forces
- Mar 15 With 10 salaried players, Cincinnati Red Stockings become baseball's first professional team
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