| 32281 | March 23 | Event | 1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City. |
| 32282 | March 23 | Event | 1862 – The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond. |
| 32283 | March 23 | Event | 1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law. |
| 32284 | March 23 | Event | 1879 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru. |
| 32285 | March 23 | Event | 1885 – Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam. |
| 32286 | March 23 | Event | 1888 – In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time. |
| 32287 | March 23 | Event | 1889 – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, India. |
| 32288 | March 23 | Event | 1901 – Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by forces of General Frederick Funston. |
| 32289 | March 23 | Event | 1905 – Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt. |
| 32290 | March 23 | Event | 1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later. |
| 32291 | March 23 | Event | 1909 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society. |
| 32292 | March 23 | Event | 1918 – First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming prisoners of war |
| 32293 | March 23 | Event | 1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement. |
| 32294 | March 23 | Event | 1931 – Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian struggle for independence. |
| 32295 | March 23 | Event | 1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. |
| 32296 | March 23 | Event | 1935 – Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. |
| 32297 | March 23 | Event | 1939 – The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spišská Nová Ves, kills 13 people and began the Slovak–Hungarian War. |
| 32298 | March 23 | Event | 1940 – The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All-India Muslim League. |
| 32299 | March 23 | Event | 1942 – World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands. |
| 32300 | March 23 | Event | 1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan) |
| 32301 | March 23 | Event | 1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). |
| 32302 | March 23 | Event | 1965 – The first issue of The Vigilant is published from Khartoum. |
| 32303 | March 23 | Event | 1977 – The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes. |
| 32304 | March 23 | Event | 1978 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line. |
| 32305 | March 23 | Event | 1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans. |
| 32306 | March 23 | Event | 1982 – Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt. |
| 32307 | March 23 | Event | 1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. |
| 32308 | March 23 | Event | 1991 – The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War. |
| 32309 | March 23 | Event | 1994 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez. |
| 32310 | March 23 | Event | 1994 – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year-old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board. |