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March (First month of the Roman year)

the first month of the Roman year, and the third according to our present calendar, consisting of 31 days.

It was considered as the first month of the year in England till the change of style in 1752, and the legal year was reckoned from March 25. Its last three days (old style) were once popularly supposed to have been "borrowed" by March from April, and are proverbially stormy.

MARCH (märh), the principal river of Moravia, rising on the boundary between that country and Prussian Silesia, and flowing 214 miles S. to the Danube, which it joins 6 miles above Pressburg.

It receives on the right the Thaya. In its lower course it forms the boundary between Austria and Hungary. It is navigable for small boats from Göding, 80 miles from its mouth.