Theodore Dehone Judah ( March 4, 1826 – November 2, 1863 ) was an American railroad engineer who dreamed of the first Transcontinental Railroad.

* March 31 – Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train.

* March 24 – The Mayor of New York, Van Wyck, breaks ground for a new underground " Rapid Transit Railroad " that will link Manhattan with Brooklyn.

* March 9 – The Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad is completed from Wilmington, North Carolina to Weldon, North Carolina.

* March 27 – The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.

* March 12 – The Columbus and Xenia Railroad, the first railroad planned to be built in Ohio, is chartered.

* Booknotes interview with David Howard Bain on Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad, March 5, 2000.

This last attempt lasted from 1955 until final United States Supreme Court approval and merger in March, 1970, which created the Burlington Northern Railroad.

The state of Kansas granted the Atchison and Topeka Railroad three million acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of land if it would build a continuous line to the western border of the state within ten years ( March 1, 1873 ).

The victims and accused alike had all hitched rides on a passing train on the Southern Railroad freight route from Chattanooga to Memphis on March 25, 1931, which just happened to stop in Jackson County, Alabama where these women made their accusations to the local officials against these black youths.

Railroad history was made on Screven ’ s tracks in March 1901 in an event that still holds forth in railroad lore.

It was named after William G. Greene of nearby Tallula Precinct, because he convinced the railroad to come through the town: located on the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad, Greenview was incorporated by a special act of the Illinois General Assembly on May 6, 1869, then re-incorporated under the new general municipal laws of the state in March 7, 1877.

The business failed and was sold six months later, but in March 1882 the Humeston & Shenandoah Railroad established a station here.

In 1865, after the return of the citizens from the army at the close of the war, the town began to improve steadily, and so continued until the year 1870, at which time ( in March ) it was incorporated as a city of the third class, and having secured the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad, rapid strides were made for the next two years in the improvement of the town.

The Michigan Railroad Board of Control approved the transfer of the Marquette and Ontonagon Railroad's land grant on March 30, 1869, and the Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad incorporated on January 17, 1870.

On March 2, 1889 the Current Local printed the following: “ Over in the kingdom of Carter, on the land of the Cape Girardeau and Southwestern Railroad ( Houck Railroad ), at a point eleven miles distant from Williamsville, there is in process of evolution a little town bearing the name of Ellsinore …”

On March 2, 1850 the Ohio General Assembly rode from Columbus, Ohio to Xenia and back on the newly completed Columbus and Xenia Railroad.

Named for New York lawyer and railroad capitalist John Stryker, who was the founder of the Michigan Southern Railroad Company, the town was organized on March 30, 1835 by James Guthrie, the first settler in the township and in the county.

It was initially a 160-acre site along the Midland Valley Railroad in March, 1905.

On March 6, trains began running on schedule to Scranton on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad.

The Good Spring was then consolidated along with several other area railroads to form the Lebanon and Tremont Railroad in March 1871, and was reacquired by and merged into the Reading about a month later.

The Walla Walla & Columbia River Railroad from Wallula to Walla Walla was not completed until 1875, but by March 1874, 16 miles of track were completed up to Touchet.

The Southern Pacific Railroad from Los Angeles reached Yuma, Arizona, in 1877, Tucson in March 1880, El Paso in May 1881, and this completed the second transcontinental railroad in December 1881.

New car sales in Dallas County during March showed slight signs of recovering from the doldrums which have characterized sales this year.

* The zodiac signs for the month of March are Pisces ( astrology ) ( until March 19 ) and Aries ( astrology ) ( March 20 onwards ).

* March 18 – President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9102, creating the War Relocation Authority ( WRA ), which becomes responsible for the internment of Americans of Japanese and, to a lesser extent, German and Italian descent, many of them legal citizens.

* March 6 – Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.

* March 11 – WWII: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law.

* March 18 – American President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill allowing for Hawaiian statehood.

* March 31 – U. S. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Consular Treaty.

* March 31 – Commodore Matthew Perry of the U. S. Navy signs the Treaty / Convention of Kanagawa with the Japanese government ( the Tokugawa Shogunate ), opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade ( see History of Japan ).

* March 5 – WBBJ-TV signs on the air in the Jackson, Tennessee, with WDXI as its initial call-letters, to expanded American commercial television in mostly-rural areas.

* March 19 – KXTV of Stockton, California, signs on the air in the United States, being the 100th commercial television station in this country.

* March 22 – President Franklin Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act known as the Cullen-Harrison Act, allowing the manufacture and sale of " 3. 2 beer " ( 3. 2 % alcohol by weight, approximately 4 % alcohol by volume ) and light wines.

* March 21 – Tennessee Governor Austin Peay signs the Butler Act, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools.

* March 1 – President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.

* March 1 – Michel de Montaigne signs the preface to his most significant work, Essays.

* March 3 – Bern signs an alliance with the Swiss Confederation.

He was a prolific writer, and the signs of his future socialism are contained in a letter of 21 March 1787, one of a series-mainly on literature-addressed to the secretary of the Academy of Arras.

Depending on local climate, the transfer of power between the winter goddess and the summer goddess is celebrated any time between Là Fhèill Brìghde ( 1 February ) at the earliest, Latha na Cailliche ( 25 March ), or Bealltainn ( 1 May ) at the latest, and the local festivals marking the arrival of the first signs of spring may be named after either the Cailleach or Brìghde.

The U. S. presidential yacht Sequoia was auctioned at the La Coquille Club in Manalapan on 25 March 1977 during the Carter administration, for US $ 270, 000, as a symbolic cutback in Federal Government spending ( annual cost to the U. S. Navy was $ 800, 000 ) and to reduce signs of an " imperial presidency ".

* March 10 – A & M Records signs the Sex Pistols in a ceremony in front of Buckingham Palace.

* March 22 – Decca Records signs DJ Alan Freed as an A & R man.

* March 18 – After losing a 15-year court battle over the legality of its business relationship with The Herald-Traveler, CBS ' Boston, Massachusetts affiliate WHDH-TV Channel 5 signs off the air.

The mission visits Moscow, where in March it signs a Turco-Afghan treaty providing for mutual assistance between the two countries in case of attack by a third party.

As Princess Ida began to show signs of flagging early on, Carte sent notice, on 22 March 1884, to both Gilbert and Sullivan under the five-year contract, that a new opera would be required in six months ' time.