Events by Year
- Mar 1 10th Grand National: Capt. Josey Little aboard 12/1 Chandler wins; race marred by fatal falls of 3 competitors
- Mar 4 Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
- Mar 4 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
- Mar 5 Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance
- Mar 7 In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
- Mar 11 Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government
- Mar 12 2nd Republic established in France
- Mar 15 A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
- Mar 23 The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
- Mar 24 State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam
- Mar 27 John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
Niagara Falls Stops Flowing
Mar 29 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam in the river upstream
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