- Mar 4 Fire at Lakeview Elementary School in Collinwood, Ohio kills 172 students and 2 teachers: boiler room blaze trapped many victims in the building, prompting changes in school design and procedures nationwide [1]
- Mar 5 1st ascent of Mt Erebus, Antarctica
- Mar 7 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stands before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
- Mar 8 Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, NY
- Mar 9 Italian football club Inter Milan founded as Foot-Ball Club Internazionale
- Mar 12 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Winnipeg Maple Leafs, 9-3 for 2-0 sweep of challenge series
- Mar 12 The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia
- Mar 14 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat Toronto Professionals, 6-4
Rapsodie Espagnole
Mar 15 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's orchestral rhapsody "Rapsodie Espagnole" in Paris
Burns vs Roche
Mar 17 Canadian champion Tommy Burns KOs Irish challenger Jem Roche in 1:28s of the 1st round at the Theatre Royal, Dublin; then quickest world heavyweight boxing title fight
- Mar 23 American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in hospital two days later
- Mar 25 Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Mar 27 70th Grand National: Henry Bletsoe wins aboard American 66/1 outsider Rubio
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