Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/March 1
- 1597 - Birth of Jean-Charles della Faille, Belgian mathematician (d. 1652)
- 1610 - Birth of John Pell, English mathematician (d. 1685)
- 1700 - Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian calendar on this date in 1753
- 1862 - Death of Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)
- 1884 - Death of Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
- 1910 - Birth of Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
- 1911 - Death of Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 1928 - Birth of Seymour Papert, South African mathematician
- 1943 - Birth of Richard H. Price, American physicist
- 1943 - Birth of Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist
- 1966 - Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface
- 1966 - Death of Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
- 1980 - Voyager 1 probe confirms that Janus (moon of Saturn) exists
- 1991 - Death of Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor (Polaroid Corporation) (b. 1909)
- 1995 - Death of Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1946)