| 23521 | March 3 | Event | 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia. |
| 23522 | March 3 | Event | 1799 – The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison. |
| 23523 | March 3 | Event | 1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise. |
| 23524 | March 3 | Event | 1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state. |
| 23525 | March 3 | Event | 1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China. |
| 23526 | March 3 | Event | 1861 – Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs. |
| 23527 | March 3 | Event | 1865 – Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group. |
| 23528 | March 3 | Event | 1873 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. |
| 23529 | March 3 | Event | 1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. |
| 23530 | March 3 | Event | 1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette. |
| 23531 | March 3 | Event | 1878 – The Russo-Turkish War ends as Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire. |
| 23532 | March 3 | Event | 1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York. |
| 23533 | March 3 | Event | 1904 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder. |
| 23534 | March 3 | Event | 1905 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma. |
| 23535 | March 3 | Event | 1910 – Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy. |
| 23536 | March 3 | Event | 1913 – Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. |
| 23537 | March 3 | Event | 1915 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded. |
| 23538 | March 3 | Event | 1918 – Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. |
| 23539 | March 3 | Event | 1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time. |
| 23540 | March 3 | Event | 1924 – The thirteen-century-old Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk. |
| 23541 | March 3 | Event | 1924 – The Free State of Fiume is annexed by Kingdom of Italy. |
| 23542 | March 3 | Event | 1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem. |
| 23543 | March 3 | Event | 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia. |
| 23544 | March 3 | Event | 1938 – The Mallard the fastest steam driven train on the planet, was built by LNER Doncaster Works England |
| 23545 | March 3 | Event | 1939 – In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India. |
| 23546 | March 3 | Event | 1940 – Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden. |
| 23547 | March 3 | Event | 1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people. |
| 23548 | March 3 | Event | 1943 – World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station. |
| 23549 | March 3 | Event | 1944 – The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards. |
| 23550 | March 3 | Event | 1945 – World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines. |