Important Dates: March 2018

Days

1^st Self Injury Awareness Day Link

1^st University Mental Health Day Link

1^st World Book Day Link

2^nd Big Yellow Friday Link

8^th International Women’s Day Link

8^th World Kidney Day Link

11^th Mothering Sunday Link

14^th No Smoking Day Link

14^th Pi Day Link

15^th World MAP Day Link

15^th World Consumer Rights Day Link

18^th Child Sexual Exploitation Awareness Day Link

20^th Vernal Equinox – first day of spring

21^st World Downs Syndrome Day Link

22^nd World Water Day Link

23^rd World Meteorological Day Link

23^rd  National Skipping Day Link

24^th World TB Day Link

26^th Purple Day Link

Weeks

1^st-8^th Time for a Cuppa Link

3^rd-9^th Endometriosis Awareness Week Link

5^th-11^th British Pie Week Link

9^th-18^th British Science Week Link

11^th-17^th World Glaucoma Week Link

12^th-18^th Brain Awareness Week Link

12^th-18^th National Butchers Week Link

17^th-23^rd Sport Relief Link

17^th-25^th English Tourism Week Link

19^th-25^th Downs Syndrome Awareness Week Link

20^th-26^th National Salt Awareness Week Link

Months

National Bed Month Link

Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month  Link

Prostate Cancer Awareness Month Link

March Religious Dates

1^st St David’s Day (Christian)

1^st  Purim (Jewish)

2^nd-20^th Nineteen Day Fast (Baha’i)

3^rd Holi (Hindu)

17^th St Patrick’s Day (Christian)

18^th Hindu New Year (Hindu)

18^th-26^th Ramayana (Hindu)

21^st Naw-Ruz (Baha’i)

21^st Norooz (Persian/Zoroastrian)

21^st Ostara-Mabon (Wicca/Pagan)

25^th Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christian)

25^th Palm Sunday (Christian)

26^th Ramanavami (Hindu)

28^th Khordad Sal (Zoroastrian)

29^th Maundy Thursday (Christian)

30^th Good Friday (Christian)

31^st-7^th Apr Pesach (Jewish)

31^st Hanuman Jayanti (Hindu)

31^st Lord’s Evening Meal (Jehovah’s Witness)

31^st  Magha Puja Day (Buddhist)

March National Days

1^st       Wales

2^nd      Morocco

3^rd      Bulgaria

6^th      Ghana

10^th     Commonwealth Day

12^th     Mauritius

15^th     Hungary

17^th     Ireland

23^rd     Pakistan

25^th     Greece

26^th     Bangladesh

This Day in History

1^st       US explode H-bomb at Bikini Atoll (1954)

1^st       Pennsylvania is the first US state to abolish slavery (1880)

2^nd      Concorde flies for the first time (1969)

4^th      Prince of Wales opens Forth Bridge in Scotland (1890)

5^th      Charles I becomes King of England (1625)

7^th      Israel elected their first women Prime Minister – Golda Meir (1969)

9^th      Northern Ireland vote to stay with UK (1973)

11^th     Madrid train bombing (2004)

11^th     Alexander Fleming – penicillin- dies (1955)

13^th     First by-election in UK for 18 year olds to vote (1970)

14^th     Albert Einstein born (1879)

15^th     Julius Caesar murdered (44BC)

20^th     Football World Cup stolen (1966)

25^th     Abolishment of UK slave trade (1807)

26^th     Israel and Egypt sign Peace deal (1979)

26^th     Women allowed to work the Stock Exchange floor for the first time (1973)

29^th     First London Marathon (1981)

30^th     Queen Mother dies (2002)

31^st     Eiffel Tower opens (1889)

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