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March 21

March 21, the 80th day of the Gregorian year (81st in leap years), is the date of the Napoleonic Code's adoption (1804), the Moondog Coronation Ball (1952), the Sharpeville massacre (1960), and the third Selma march (1965), and hosts World Poetry Day and the International Day of Forests.

March 22

March 22, the 81st day of the Gregorian year, marked by World Water Day, Emancipation Day in Puerto Rico, the 1765 Stamp Act, the 1945 founding of the Arab League, and the 1972 Senate passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.

March 23

March 23, the 82nd day of the Gregorian year, is World Meteorological Day (WMO Convention, 1950) and the date of Patrick Henry's 1775 speech, the 1933 Enabling Act vote, Gemini III (1965), and Titanic's 11 Oscars (1998).

March 23 Movement

March 23 Movement (M23, Mouvement du 23 Mars), Rwandan-backed armed group in eastern DRC founded 2012 from CNDP defectors; seized Goma 2012 and 2025, Bukavu and Uvira 2025, under UN sanctions since 2012.

March 24

March 24, the 83rd day of the year, marks the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, NATO's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, Koch's 1882 tuberculosis discovery (World TB Day), and Argentina's 1976 coup.

March 25

March 25, the 84th day of the Gregorian year, is the Feast of the Annunciation and the date of the 1957 Treaty of Rome, the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire, and the 1965 Selma march's end.

March 26

March 26, the 85th day of the Gregorian year, is Bangladesh's Independence Day (1971 declaration by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman) and the date of the 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, the 1945 securing of Iwo Jima, and Salk's 1953 polio vaccine announcement.

March 27

March 27, the 86th day of the Gregorian year (87th in leap years), is World Theatre Day and the anniversary of the 1964 magnitude 9.2 Alaska earthquake, the 1977 Tenerife air disaster, and the 1794 founding of the U.S. Navy.

March 28

March 28 is the 87th day of the Gregorian year (88th in leap years), with 278 days remaining. Key events: Three Mile Island meltdown (1979), Eisenhower's death (1969), Crimean War declarations (1854); observances include Serfs' Emancipation Day and Earth Hour.

March 29

March 29, the 88th day of the Gregorian year (277 days remain), is marked by the Battle of Towton (1461), the last U.S. combat troops leaving Vietnam (1973), Mariner 10's first Mercury flyby, the Terra-cotta Army discovery, and NATO's largest enlargement (2004).

March 3

March 3, the 62nd day of the Gregorian year: date of the Missouri Compromise (1820), Russia's emancipation of 23 million serfs (1861), Treaty of San Stefano (1878), Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crash (1974), and the Rodney King beating (1991).

March 5

March 5, the 64th day of the Gregorian year, is the date of the Boston Massacre (1770), Stalin's death (1953), the Iron Curtain speech (1946), and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty's entry into force (1970).

March 6

March 6, the 65th day of the Gregorian year, marks the fall of the Alamo (1836), the Dred Scott decision (1857), Mendeleev's periodic table (1869), Ghanaian independence (1957), and the Zeebrugge ferry disaster (1987).

March 7

March 7, the 66th day of the Gregorian year (67th in leap years), is marked by National Cereal Day, Alexander Graham Bell Day, and Jose Abad Santos Day, and by the 1876 telephone patent, Selma's Bloody Sunday (1965), and the 1936 Rhineland remilitarization.

March 7th (Honkai: Star Rail)

March 7th (三月七, 三月なのか) is a playable Honkai: Star Rail character named for the date she was freed from ice; free 4-star Ice Preservation shielder, later a Hunt/Imaginary sword form (July 2024).

March 8

March 8 is the 67th day of the Gregorian year, the 68th in leap years, and the date fixed for International Women's Day, marked annually since 1914.

March 9

March 9, the 68th day of the Gregorian year: Amistad ruling (1841), Monitor vs Virginia ironclad battle (1862), Tokyo firebombing (1945), Barbie debut (1959); births of Gagarin, Kohn, Aiken, Vespucci.

March and March

March and March (March & March) is a South African civic movement founded in March 2024 in Durban by Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, campaigning for stricter immigration enforcement, citizen priority for jobs and services, and the 30 June 2026 national shutdown, distinct from Operation Dudula and from the Arizona law firm of the same name.

March Capital

March Capital, formerly March Capital Partners, is a venture growth firm in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2013 by Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken, and Jamie Montgomery.

March Comes In like a Lion (3月のライオン)

March Comes In like a Lion (3月のライオン, Sangatsu no Lion) is Chica Umino's shogi manga serialized in Young Animal since 2007, following teenage pro player Rei Kiriyama and the Kawamoto sisters; it won the 2021 Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Grand Prize and was adapted by Shaft for NHK and as a two-part live-action film.

March Constitution (Austria)

The March Constitution was the constitution of the Austrian Empire, imposed by decree of Emperor Franz Joseph I on 4 March 1849 and revoked by 1851.

March Constitution of Poland (1921)

The March Constitution of Poland (Konstytucja marcowa), adopted by the Legislative Sejm on 17 March 1921, made the reborn Polish state a democratic parliamentary republic, remaining in force until 1935.

March deportation

The March deportation (Estonian: märtsiküüditamine) was a mass deportation by the Soviet Union on 25–29 March 1949, removing about 90,000 civilians from the Baltic states to remote regions of the USSR.

March equinox

The March equinox, also called the northward or vernal equinox, is the moment the Sun crosses Earth's equator moving north, around March 19 to 21, starting northern spring.

March family

The March family is a Spanish business dynasty from Palma de Mallorca that owns Banca March, the only family-owned bank in Spain, founded by Juan March Ordinas in 1926.

March for Australia

March for Australia, an Australian anti-immigration protest movement, held nationwide rallies on 31 August 2025; investigations linked organisers to white nationalist ideas and the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network despite organisers' denials.

March for Our Lives

March for Our Lives is the youth-led gun violence prevention group founded in 2018 by Parkland shooting survivors after the Stoneman Douglas massacre; it staged the March 24, 2018 march of roughly 800,000 in Washington and claims 300-plus gun safety laws passed.

March Front

The March Front (Hungarian: Márciusi Front) was a left-wing Hungarian intellectual and political movement, founded by populist writers in March 1937 to campaign for democracy.

March Hare

The March hare is the European brown hare during its March breeding season, proverbially "mad as a March hare" for boxing and leaping behavior, and the name of the erratic tea-party character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

March Incident

The March Incident (三月事件, Sangatsu Jiken) was an abortive coup d'état attempt planned for March 1931 by the Sakurakai, a secret society of officers in the Imperial Japanese Army.