Important Dates: March 2017 |
Days
1st Self Injury Awareness Day Link
2nd University Mental Health and Wellbeing Day Link
2nd World Book Day Link
3rd Big Yellow Friday Link
8th International Women’s Day Link
8th No Smoking Day Link
9th World Kidney Day Link
11th National Clear Your Clutter Day Link
14th National Pi Day (USA) Link
15th World Consumer Rights Day Link
18th Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness Day Link
20th Vernal Equinox – first day of spring
21st National Skipping Day Link
21st World Downs Syndrome Day Link
22nd World Water Day Link
23rd World Meteorological Day Link
24th Red Nose Day Link
24th World TB Day Link
26th Purple Day Link
26th Mothering Sunday Link
Weeks
1st-8th Time for a Cuppa Link
3rd-9th Endometriosis Awareness Week Link
6th-12th British Pie Week Link
12th-18th World Glaucoma Week Link
13th-19th British Science Week Link
13th-19th Brain Awareness Week Link
13th-19th National Butchers Week Link
20th-26th Downs Syndrome Awareness Week Link
20th-26th National Salt Awareness Week Link
25th-2nd Apr English Tourism Week Link
Months
National Bed Month Link
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Link
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month Link
March Religious Dates
1st St David’s Day (Christian)
1st Ash Wednesday (Christian)
2nd-20th Nineteen Day Fast (Baha’i)
12th Magha Puja Day (Buddhist)
12th Purim (Jewish)
13th Holi (Hindu)
13th Hola Mohalla (Sikh)
17th St Patrick’s Day (Christian)
19th St Joseph’s Day (Christian)
21st Naw-Ruz (Baha’i)
21st Norooz (Persian/Zoroastrian)
25th Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christian)
28th Hindu New Year (Hindu)
28th Khordad Sal (Zoroastrian)
28th-5th Apr Ramayana (Hindu)
March National Days
1st Wales
2nd Morocco
3rd Bulgaria
6th Ghana
10th Commonwealth Day
12th Mauritius
15th Hungary
17th Ireland
23rd Pakistan
25th Greece
26th Bangladesh
This Day in History
1st US explode H-bomb at Bikini Atoll (1954)
1st Pennsylvania is the first US state to abolish slavery (1880)
2nd Concorde flies for the first time (1969)
4th Prince of Wales opens Forth Bridge in Scotland (1890)
5th Charles I becomes King of England (1625)
7th Israel elected their first women Prime Minister – Golda Meir (1969)
9th Northern Ireland vote to stay with UK (1973)
11th Madrid train bombing (2004)
11th Alexander Fleming – penicillin- dies (1955)
13th First by-election in UK for 18 year olds to vote (1970)
14th Albert Einstein born (1879)
15th Julius Caesar murdered (44BC)
20th Football World Cup stolen (1966)
25th Abolishment of UK slave trade (1807)
26th Israel and Egypt sign Peace deal (1979)
26th Women allowed to work the Stock Exchange floor for the first time (1973)
29th First London Marathon (1981)
30th Queen Mother dies (2002)
31st Eiffel Tower opens (1889)
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