March, 15th

March 15 is the 74th (seventy-fourth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 75th in leap years. There are 291 days left to end the year.

Events

• 193 B.C.: An earthquake (without more data) is recorded in Italy.
• 44 B.C. (March Times): Julius Caesar is killed by a group of roman senators nicknamed Liberators, led by Cayo Casio Longino and Marco Junio Bruto.

Death of Caesarby Vincenzo Camuccini

• 415: in Alexandria (Egypt), a Christian mob in the name of Saint Cyril (370-444) stoned to the philosopher, astronomer and Egyptian-Roman writer Hipatia (65).
• 1493: in Spain, Christopher Columbus, with the Pinzón brothers and their men, disembarks in the port of Palos de la Frontera after his first trip to America.
• 1530: in Jalisco, Mexico, the Spanish military Nuño de Guzmán conquers the cacicazgo of Ocotlán.
• 1552: The village of Teziutlán is consolidated in Puebla, Mexico.
• 1720: In Peru, the village of Saña is destroyed by a flood.
• 1750: In Mexico City, the visitor of the provinces and former governor of the province of Sonora and Sinaloa José Rafael Rodríguez Gallardo presents his report.
• 1781: In the U.S. War of Independence, the Battle of Guilford Court House is released, near the current Greensboro, North Carolina, in which 1900 British troops under the command of General Charles Cornwallis defeat a mixed American force of a total of 4,400 soldiers in a political victory.
• 1814: In the Rio de la Plata, in front of Buenos Aires, the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata beat the Spaniards in the fight of the island Martín García.
• 1825: In Oaxaca, Mexico, the village of San Juan Bautista Tuxtepec was founded.
• 1827: In Canada, the University of Toronto was founded.
• 1831: In Mexico, Tomás Escalante took office as governor of the state of Sonora.
• 1840: In Slovenia, Christian teacher Jakob Lorber begins to write what the voices he hears inside him.
• 1858: In Spain the railway line Madrid-Alicante is officially inaugurated.
• 1878: In Mangos de Baraguá, the largest Cuban general Antonio Maceo and Grajales holds an interview (known as the Baraguá Protest) with Spanish general Arsenio Martínez Campos.
• 1892: in Liverpool (England) the football team Liverpool F. C. is founded.
• 1904: In the city of Córdoba (Argentina), Dr. Silvestre Remonda founded the newspaper The Voice of the Interior.
• 1913: In Buenos Aires (Argentina) the Club Atlético All Boys is founded.
• 1913: In Montevideo (Uruguay) the Club Atlético Defensor is founded.
• 1916: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sends 12 000 U.S. soldiers across the Mexican border in search of Pancho Villa.
• 1917: abdication of Tsar Nicholas II (2 March according to the Julian calendar then in Russia). Russia becomes a republic.
• 1922: the Communist Party of Spain celebrates its first congress, where Antonio García Quejido is elected as secretary general.
• 1931: In the city of Buenos Aires is founded the Club Atlético Correos y Telégrafos, predecessor of the current Club Comunicaciones.
• 1936: Hundreds of Ukrainian, Polish and Russian settlers with their families are shot by the police and by local traders in a peaceful demonstration that claimed a fair price for agricultural products.
• 1939: Czechoslovakia becomes "German protectorate" of Bohemia and Moravia after the occupation of Prague by the Nazis.
• 1945: in Guatemala City, the president assumes the pedagogue and philosopher Juan José Arévalo.
• 1951: in Guatemala City, he assumes the presidency, the military and nationalist Jacobo Árbenz, who will be overthrown by the American CIA.
• 1952: In Cylaos (Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean) the most abundant rain is recorded in 24 h (since scientific record is recorded): 1870 mm.
• 1952: In the United States the first edition of the 12 Hours of Sebring, one of the most important races of resistance motor racing in the country, is contested.
• 1957: The statutes of the Ibero-American Education Office (OEI) are approved in Santo Domingo.
• 1960: Nicolae Steinhardt is baptized Orthodox Christian.
• 1961: At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, South Africa announced that it would withdraw from the Commonwealth when the 1961 South African Constitution entered into force.
• 1970: José José presents the song The sad at the OTI Festival of Song.
• 1971: in Buenos Aires, the band Vox Dei edits the album The Bible, considered one of the pillars of Argentine rock.
• 1972: the Italian American gangster film is released The best godfather, Oscar award winner for best movie, best actor and best adapted script.
• 1985: in Brazil the military dictatorship ends.
• 1986: The link to the Mir orbital station of the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz T-15 is produced.
• 1990: in Brazil, Fernando Collor de Mello is invested president.
• 1992: in Catalonia, CiU obtains, for the third time consecutive, the absolute majority in the elections to Parliament.
• 1992: the Rock R.E.M group publishes its simple " Everybody Hurts" of its album "Automatic for the people", reached 29th place on the American Billboard list and 7th place in the UK
• 1994: The United States and Russia agree to allow mutual supervision of the dismantling of their nuclear weapons.
• 1994: the asteroid 1994 ES1 passes to 165 00 km from Earth, almost half the distance between our planet and the Moon.
• 1995: in the Argentinian city of San Nicolás (Province of Buenos Aires) in an alleged attack on a helicopter, Carlos Facundo Menem (son of President Carlos Saul Menem) and Silvio Oltra.
• 1995: in Bolivia is captured by former military addict Luis García Meza, responsible for more than 500 murders, among other terrorist acts, such as the Harrington Street Massacre (in La Paz).
• 1996: In Equatorial Guinea, President Teodoro Obiang is appointed head of State.
• 1999: in Spain, Carlos Moyá becomes the first Spanish to reach the position number one of the ATP.
• 2003: 31 minutes is released on TVN screens.
• 2003: Hu Jintao is appointed president of the People's Republic of China.
• 2005: RBD releases the third single from its debut album (Rebelde), Sálvame
• 2005: release of the album "Gatillazo" of the Spanish punk group Gatillazo.
• 2009: presidential elections in El Salvador, won by Mauricio Funes del FMLN.
• 2010: Animation studies and special effects C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures in Canada are closed.
• 2010: In Asunción (Paraguay) a new information service is launched Information desk issued by Paravisión (Canal 5) with Fernando Mongelos and Yolanda Park.
• 2011: the Syrian Civil War begins.
• 2014: Pope Francis designates as III Bishop of the Diocese of Ciudad Quesada in Costa Rica the priest José Manuel Garita Herrera.
• 2019: Idai cyclone touched land in Mozambique, causing at least 205 deaths and causing massive flooding and power cuts in southern Africa.
• 2019: 50 people died and 50 others were injured in terrorist attacks against two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
• 2020: In Spain, the state of alarm comes into effect due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the population is confined; 31 days after the first death with this disease in Valencia, on 13 February.
• 2020: In Argentina, President Alberto Fernández decreed the "National Quarantine" until March 31 for prevention of coronavirus. Thus, classes were suspended, risk groups were licensed, borders were closed. The next day, the Supreme Court decreed judicial astute and the AFA cancelled the dates to be played on the recommendation of FIFA, being the last sport to take quarantine in the South American country.
• 2020: Guatemala decrees "National Quarantine" for prevention of Coronavirus.
• 2020: in Peru, President Martin Vizcarra decrees the national confinement for cases of COVID-19.

Births

• 938: Roman II, Byzantine emperor (f. 963).
• 1455: Pietro Accolti, Italian cardinal (f. 1532).
• 1493: Anne de Montmorency, French accountant (f. 1567).
• 1591: Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (f. 1660).

Shunzhi.

• 1638: Shunzhi, Chinese emperor of Qing dynasty (f. 1661).
• 1666: George Bähr, German architect (f. 1738).
• 1713: Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (f. 1762).
• 1738: Cesare Beccaria, Italian jurist philosopher (f. 1794).

Andrew Jackson.

• 1767: Andrew Jackson, 7th American President (f. 1845).
• 1775: John the Baptist Arismendi, general and Venezuelan priest (f. 1841).
• 1779: William Lamb, British Prime Minister (f. 1848).
• 1790: Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer (f. 1848).
• 1809: Joseph Jenkins Roberts, Liberian president (f. 1876).

John Snow.

• 1813: John Snow, British physician (f. 1858).
• 1813: Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian physical and chemical (f. 1895).
• 1825: Aníbal Pinto Garmendia, Chilean politician (f. 1884).
• 1830: Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel Literature Prize in 1910 (f. 1914).
• 1830: Elisée Reclus, French geographer and anarchist, member of the First International (f. 1905).
• 1831: Daniel Comboni, an Italian missionary (f. 1881).
• 1835: Eduard Strauss, composer and master of Austrian chapel (f. 1916).
• 1851: Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos, philosopher, medievalist and German-Portuguese writer (f. 1925).
• 1852: Lady Gregory, Irish writer (f. 1932).
• 1854: Emil Adolf von Behring, German bacteriologist, nobel prize for medicine in 1901 (f. 1917).
• 1857: Christian Michelsen, Norwegian Prime Minister (f. 1925).
• 1858: Liberty Hyde Bailey, American botanist (f. 1954).
• 1868: Grace Chisholm Young, English math (f. 1944).
• 1869: Stanisław Wojciechowski, Polish President (f. 1953).
• 1869: Teodoro Llorente Falcó, journalist and Spanish writer (f. 1949).
• 1870: Heriberto Frías, a Mexican journalist and novelist (f. 1925).
• 1872: Alfredo Solf and Muro, a Peruvian politician and diplomat (f. 1969).
• 1874: Harold L. Ickes, American politician (f. 1952).
• 1882: Jim Lightbody, American athlete (f. 1953).
• 1883: Josefa Úriz Pi, teacher, pedagogue and Spanish political activist (f. 1958).
• 1889: Gerda Wegener, a Danish painter (f. 1940).
• 1890: Ignacio Asúnsolo, Mexican sculptor (f. 1965).
• 1894: Rose Pauly, Hungarian soprano (f. 1975).
• 1895: Juan Alfonso Carrizo, Argentine writer (f. 1957).
• 1899: George Brent, American actor (f. 1979).
• 1900: Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist and writer (f. 1987).
• 1900: Ernst Neufert, German architect (f. 1986).
• 1900: Wolfgang Schadewaldt, German philologist (f. 1974).
• 1902: Henri Saint Cyr, Swedish rider (f. 1979).
• 1902: Roberto Tálice, journalist, author, film critic, playwright and Uruguayan writer (f. 1999).

Berthold von Stauffenberg.

• 1905: Berthold von Stauffenberg, German Nazi lawyer and opponent (f. 1944).
• 1906: Antoni Campañà Bandranas, Catalan photographer (f. 1989).
• 1907: Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (f. 1981).
• 1908: Diego del Gastor, Spanish guitarist (f. 1973).
• 1908: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher (f. 1961).
• 1908: José Peirats, Spanish anarosindicalist (f. 1989).
• 1912: Louis Paul Boon, a novelist and a Flemish journalist (f. 1979).
• 1912: Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (f. 1982).
• 1913: Mané Bernardo, plastic artist, director of theatre and puppeteer of Argentina (f. 1991).
• 1913: Macdonald Carey, an American actor (f. 1994).
• 1913: Rosita Contreras, an Argentine actress (f. 1962).
• 1913: Ramón Gabilondo, Spanish footballer (f. 2004).
• 1914: Joe E. Ross, American comic (f. 1982).
• 1916: Harry James, director of big band and American trumpeter (f. 1983).
• 1916: Blas de Otero, Spanish poet (f. 1979).
• 1918: Richard Ellmann, American biographer (f. 1987).
• 1919: Lawrence Tierney, American actor (f. 2002).
• 1920: Lawrence Sanders, American writer (f. 1998).
• 1920: Edward Donnall Thomas, U.S. doctor, nobel medical award in 1990 (f. 2012).
• 1920: Sid Hartman, American journalist (f. 2020).
• 1921: José Javier López Jacoiste, jurist, professor of civil law, and Spanish notary (f. 2016).
• 1922: Alberto Morán, Argentine singer of tangos (f. 1997).
• 1924: Walter Gotell, German actor (f. 1997).
• 1924: José Ignacio Rucci, Argentine trade union and political leader (f. 1973).
• 1925: Bert Bolin, Swedish meteorologist (f. 2007).
• 1927: Maija Isola, a textile designer, a Finnish painter (f. 2001).
• 1930: Zhorés Alfiórov, Russian physicist, nobel physics award 2000 (f. 2019).
• 1930: Martin Karplus, austro-American theoretical chemist.
• 1931: Fernando Hinestrosa Forero, politician and Colombian jurist. (f. 2012).
• 1932: Alan Bean, American astronaut (f. 2016).
• 1932: Vicente Rojo Almazán, Mexican painter (f. 2021).
• 1933: Philippe de Broca, French filmmaker (f. 2004).
• 1933: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American jurist (f. 2020).

Ibáñez.

• 1936: Francisco Ibáñez, Spanish hysterist.
• 1936: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian actress.
• 1940: Juan Gallardo, Mexican singer and actor (f. 1999).
• 1941: Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys).

David Cronenberg.

• 1942: Montserrat Figueras, Spanish singer (f. 2011).
• 1943: David Cronenberg, Canadian actor and filmmaker.
• 1943: Iron Sheik, professional fighter.
• 1944: Jacques Doillon, French filmmaker.
• 1945: Eduardo Franco, Uruguayan singer and composer, of the group Los Iracundos (f. 1989).
• 1945: Juan Luis Rodríguez-Vigil, Asturian President.

Ry Cooder.

• 1946: Marisa Marco, Spanish actress. (f. 2017).
• 1947: Ry Cooder, American guitarist.
• 1948: Sergio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (f. 2003).
• 1950: Ricardo Soulé, Argentine rock musician.
• 1952: Howard Devoto, British musician, Buzzcocks bands, Magazine, and Luxuria.
• 1953: Heather Graham Pozzessere, British writer.
• 1955: Dee Snider, American vocalist, of the Twisted Sister band.
• 1957: Joaquim de Almeida, Portuguese actor.
• 1957: Juan José Ibarretxe, Spanish politician.
• 1957: Víctor Muñoz, footballer and Spanish football coach.
• 1957: David Silverman, American designer and producer.
• 1959: Héctor Vargas, footballer and Argentine coach.
• 1959: Renny Harlin, Finnish film director.
• 1959: Ben Okri, Nigerian writer.
• 1959: Mattis Hætta, Norwegian singer (f. 2022).
• 1959: Isabel San Sebastian, Spanish journalist.
• 1961: Terry Cummings, American basketball player.
• 1962: Terence Trent D'Arby, American singer.

Bret Michaels.

• 1963: Bret Michaels, American singer, of the Poison band.
• 1964: Rockwell, American musician.
• 1965: Svetlana Medvedeva, first lady of Russia.
• 1965: Pascal Tayot, French yudoca.

Juvenal Fernández.

• 1965: Juvenal Fernández, Venezuelan military and senior command of the FANB.
• 1967: Sergio Espejo, Chilean minister.
• 1967: Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese cartoonist.
• 1968: Mark McGrath, American musician, Sugar Ray and The Wondergirls.
• 1968: Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer.
• 1968: Jon Schaffer, American guitarist, bands Iced Earth and Demons and Wizards.
• 1969: Timo Kotipelto, Finnish singer, Stratovarius band.
• 1969: Elvir Laković Laka, Bosnian singer.
• 1969: Kim Raver, American actress.
• 1971: Penny Lancaster, British model.
• 1972: Mark Hoppus, U.S. bassist and singer, Blink-182 and Plus-44 bands.
• 1973: Agustín Aranzabal, Spanish footballer.

Eva Longoria.

• 1975: Eva Longoria, American actress and model.
• 1975: Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player.
• 1975: Will.i.am, American singer.
• 1975: Susana Soleto, Spanish actress.
• 1976: Jennifer 8. Lee, American journalist.
• 1977: Joe Hahn, American musician, of the Linkin Park band.
• 1977: Karol Kisel, Slovak footballer.
• 1980: Adrian Guillermo, Argentine soccer player.
• 1980: Stefán Gíslason, Icelandic footballer.
• 1981: Cristián Arriagada, Chilean actor.
• 1981: Young Buck, American rapper.
• 1981: Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer.
• 1981: Veronica Maggio, Swedish singer.

Malú.

• 1982: Malú, Spanish singer.
• 1982: Rafael Pérez, Dominican baseball player.
• 1983: Florence Bertotti, Argentine actress.
• 1983: Sean Biggerstaff, British actor.
• 1983: Daryl Murphy, Irish footballer.
• 1983: Jean-Jacques Gosso, Ivorian footballer.
• 1984: Kostas Vasileiadis, Greek basketball player.
• 1985: Curtis Davies, British footballer.
• 1985: Javier Garrido Behobide, Spanish footballer.
• 1985: Kellan Lutz, American actor.
• 1985: James Maclurcan, Australian actor.
• 1986: Jai Courtney, Australian actor.
• 1987: María Hervás, Spanish actress.
• 1989: Caitlin Wachs, American actress.
• 1990: Miguel Angel Ibarra, American footballer.
• 1991: Serhiy Kryvtsov, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1993: Michael Fulmer, American baseball player.
• 1993: Paul Pogba, French footballer from Manchester United
• 1993: Alia Bhatt, Indian actress and singer.
• 1994: Alvaro Medrán, Spanish footballer.

Deaths

Julius Caesar.

• 44 B.C.: Julius Caesar, Roman politician and military (n. 100 B.C.).
• 220: Cao Cao, the last Chinese prime minister of the Han Dynasty (n. 155).

Hipatia of Alexandria.

• 415: Hipatia of Alexandria, philosopher, astronomer and Egyptian-Roman writer (n. 355).
• 493: Odoacro, German leader (n. 435).
• 752: Zechariah, Pope of the Catholic Church (n. 679).
• 990: Siegfried I, noble German.
• 1190: Isabel de Hainaut, queen of France (n. 1170).
• 1311: Gualterio V de Brienne, Greek duke (n. 1278).
• 1416: John I of Berry, French Duke (n. 1340).
• 1575: Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (n. 1527).
• 1594: Casiodoro de Reina, a Spanish Jesuit religious (n. c. 1520).
• 1657: David Pardo, Rabbi and Dutch scholar (n. 1591).
• 1673: Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (n. 1615).
• 1701: Jean Regnault de Segrais, French poet (n. 1624).
• 1711: Eusebio Kino, an Italian missionary (n. 1645).
• 1820: Clement Mary Hofbauer, Austrian religious (n. 1751).
• 1842: Luigi Cherubini, Italian musician and composer (n. 1760).
• 1849: Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (n. 1774).
• 1875: William Maynard Gomm, British military (n. 1784).
• 1891: Joseph Bazalgette, British engineer (n. 1819).
• 1898: Henry Bessemer, a British pioneer of modern steelwork (n. 1813).
• 1897: James Joseph Sylvester, British mathematician and academic (n. 1814).
• 1900: Elwin Bruno Christoffel, German physicist and mathematician (n. 1829).
• 1915: Fernando Tarrida del Mármol, anarchist Hispanic-Cuban (n. 1861).
• 1918: Rogelio Fernández Güell, politician, writer and Costa Rican journalist killed by the dictatorship of Tinoco (n. 1883).
• 1918: Lili Boulanger, French composer. (n. 1893).
• 1929: Pinetop Smith, American pianist, blues composer (n. 1904).

H. P. Lovecraft.

• 1937: H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (n. 1890).
• 1938: Nikolái Bujarin, a Soviet revolutionary (n. 1888).
• 1938: Fayzullo Xojayev, a revolutionary Uzbek (n. 1896).
• 1941: Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (n. 1864).
• 1941: Abigail Mejia, intellectual, photographer, educator and Dominican feminist (n. 1895).
• 1951: John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer (n. 1889).
• 1959: Lester Young, American jazz musician (n. 1909).
• 1959: Prospero Bisquertt Prado Chilean Composer (n. 1881).
• 1961: Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (n. 1882).
• 1962: Arthur Compton, U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize of Physics in 1927 (n. 1892).
• 1966: Abe Saperstein, director of U.S. basketball (n. 1902).
• 1968: Khuang Abhaiwongse, Thai politician (n. 1902).
• 1969: Arturo Michelini, Italian politician (n. 1909).
• 1969: Miles Malleson, British actor and playwright (n. 1888).
• 1971: Carles Pi i Sunyer, Spanish politician (n. 1888).
• 1975: Leonidas Barletta, writer, journalist and Argentine playwright (n. 1902).
• 1975: Aristotle Onassis, Greek magnate (n. 1900).
• 1977: Antonino Rocca, Argentine fighter (n. 1927).
• 1979: Bernardo Verbitsky, Argentine writer and journalist (n. 1907).
• 1979: Léonide Massine, Russian choreographer (n. 1890).

René Clair.

• 1981: Rene Clair, French filmmaker (n. 1898).
• 1983: Josep Lluís Sert, Spanish architect (n. 1902).
• 1983: Rebecca West, British writer (n. 1892).
• 1984: Luis Lucia Mingarro, Spanish writer and filmmaker (n. 1914).
• 1985: Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian writer and historian (n. 1921).
• 1988: Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan political leader (n. 1919).
• 1988: Dmitri Poliakov, Soviet military, spy of the United States (n. 1926).
• 1989: Valérie Quennessen, French actress (n. 1957).
• 1990: Cesáreo Galíndez, entrepreneur and Spanish sportsman (n. 1894).
• 1990: Tom Harmon, American footballer and journalist (n. 1919).
• 1991: Bud Freeman, American musician (n. 1906).
• 1991: Eileen Sedgwick, American actress (n. 1898).
• 1995: Carlos Menem, Jr., Argentine motor racing pilot (n. 1968).
• 1995: Silvio Oltra, a driver of motorism and Argentine singer (n. 1958).
• 1996: Wolfgang Koeppen, German writer (n. 1906).
• 1997: Gail Davis, American actress (n. 1925).
• 1997: Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (n. 1906).
• 1998: Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (n. 1903).
• 1998: Tim Maia, Brazilian singer and composer (n. 1942).
• 2000: Jaime García Añoveros, Spanish politician (n. 1932).
• 2001: Ann Sothern, American actress (n. 1909).
• 2003: Thora Hird, British actress (n. 1911).
• 2004: John Pople, British chemistry chemistry prize in 1998 (n. 1925).
• 2006: George Mackey, American mathematician (n. 1916).
• 2006: Georgios Rallis, Greek Prime Minister (n. 1918).
• 2007: Blanquita Amaro, actress, singer and Cuban dancer (n. 1923).
• 2007: Stuart Rosenberg, American filmmaker (n. 1927).
• 2008: Mikey Dread, Jamaican singer (n. 1954).
• 2009: Ron Silver, American actor (n. 1946).
• 2010: Blanca Sendino, Spanish actress (n. 1927).
• 2011: Nate Dogg, American singer (n. 1969).
• 2011: María Beneyto i Cuñat, Spanish poet (n. 1925).
• 2012: Pepe Rubio, Spanish actor. (n. 1931).
• 2013: Eliana Araníbar Figueroa, Chilean politics (n. 1936).
• 2014: Mandolino, Chilean comedian. (n. 1934).
• 2015: Mike Porcaro, American bassist (n. 1955).
• 2017: Vicky, Colombian singer (n. 1944).
• 2018: Anna Campbell, British feminist anarchist (n. 1991).
• 2021: Yaphet Kotto, American actor (n. 1939).
• 2021: Emiliano González, Mexican writer and poet (n. 1955).

Celebrations

• SpainSpain, Navarra: Fitero
• SpainSpain, Valencia: Fallas
• Roman calendar:
  • Idus de marzo
  • La Hilaria, celebration similar to Mother's Day.
• JapanJapan
  • Hōnen Matsuri
• World Consumer Rights Day

Catholic saints list

• San Menigno de Pario(f. c. 250)
• Santa Vicenta de Coria(f. 424)
• Saint Zechariah(f. 752)
• Santa Leocricia de Córdoba(f. 859)
• San Sisebuto de Cardeñaabad (f. 1086)
• beato Guillermo Hart, priest and martyr (1583)
• Santa Luisa de Marillacwidow (f. 1660)
• St. Clement Mary Hofbauer, priest (f. 1820)
• beato Juan Adalberto Balicki, priest (f. 1948)
• beato Artémides Zatti(f. 1951)