Portal:The arts/Selected anniversaries/March

• 11 March 1970 – American novelist Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of the Perry Mason detective stories, dies in Temecula, California
• 12 March 1945 – The Vienna State Opera is set on fire by wartime bombardment.
• 20 March 1828 – Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, often called the "father of modern drama", is born in Skien, Norway
• 24 March 1905 – Frank Van der Stucken conducts the United States premiere of Mahler's Symphony No. 5
• 30 March 1746 – Spanish painter Francisco Goya, known for his painting The Naked Maja (pictured), is born in Fuendetodos, Aragon