Our March Calendar features the most popular March Holidays and National Food Days in the month of March.
Top 20 Historical Events March
- 44 BC – Julius Caesar is assassinated in Rome.
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the Americas.
- 1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
- 1822 – The Florida Territory is created by the U.S. government.
- 1857 – Elisha Otis installs the first modern elevator at 488 Broadway in New York City.
- 1865 – The Congress of Vienna, which reorganized the political boundaries of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars, ends.
- 1872 – The Paris Commune is established.
- 1917 – The Russian Revolution begins with the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II.
- 1933 – The Reichstag building in Berlin is set on fire, an event used as a pretext for the Enabling Act of 1933.
- 1945 – U.S. forces cross the Rhine River, marking the beginning of the end of World War II in Europe.
- 1965 – The first spacewalk takes place as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov exits the Voskhod 2 spacecraft.
- 1971 – The Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
- 1979 – The Camp David Accords are signed between Israel and Egypt.
- 1989 – The Exxon Valdez spills millions of gallons of oil in Alaska’s Prince William Sound.
- 1990 – East Germany holds its first and only free elections.
- 1991 – The United States launches Operation Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait from Iraq.
- 1995 – The Tokyo subway sarin attack kills 13 people and injures over 50.
- 2003 – The United States invades Iraq.
- 2011 – Japan’s 9.0 magnitude Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami kills nearly 16,000 people.
- 2020 – The World Health Organization declares COVID-19 a pandemic.
