- Mar 3 Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy
- Mar 3 In the series decider England beats Scotland, 2 tries to 1 at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh to win the inaugural Home Nations Rugby Championship with an undefeated record
- Mar 16 Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman graduate of a pharmacy college
- Mar 20 Jan Matzeliger receives his 1st patent (number 274,207) for shoe lasting machine which mechanized shoe production
- Mar 20 Unity treaty of Paris signed: protects industrial property
- Mar 24 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago
- Mar 30 45th Grand National: Austrian breeder, owner Count Karel Kinsky rides Zoedone to 10 length win; only 10 starters, the smallest GN field in history; first winning jockey from outside Britain and Ireland
- Mar 31 1st performance of Caesar Franck's symphonic poem for orchestra "Le Chasseur Maudit" (The Accursed Huntsman) at the Salle Érard in Paris
- Mar 31 Utrecht, Belgium begins water pipe system
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