March Holidays and Observances
Every fixed-date holiday and observance in March, from international days to national holidays and religious feast days. Select a day to see its full list. The dates are the same every year, so holidays whose date moves, such as Easter, are not listed. All entries come from Wikipedia.
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All March holidays by day
International
- World Seagrass Day Wikipedia
National and local
- Beer Day, marked the end of beer prohibition in 1989 (Iceland) Wikipedia
- Chalandamarz, traditional Alpine spring festival (Switzerland) Wikipedia
- Commemoration of Mustafa Barzani's Death (Iraqi Kurdistan) Wikipedia
- Day of the Balearic Islands (Spain) Wikipedia
- Disability Day of Mourning Wikipedia
- Heroes' Day (Paraguay) Wikipedia
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992 Wikipedia
- National "Cursed Soldiers" Remembrance Day (Poland) Wikipedia
- National Pig Day (United States) Wikipedia
- New Year's Day in the more veneto, the calendric system of the Republic of Venice until 1797 Wikipedia
- Remembrance Day (Marshall Islands) Wikipedia
- Samiljeol (South Korea) Wikipedia
- Self-injury Awareness Day (international) Wikipedia
- Southeastern Europe celebration of the beginning of spring: Baba Marta Day (Bulgaria) Wikipedia
- Southeastern Europe celebration of the beginning of spring: Mărțișor (Romania and Moldova) Wikipedia
- The final day (fourth or fifth) of Ayyám-i-Há (Baháʼí Faith) Wikipedia
- Yap Day (Yap State) Wikipedia
- Zero Discrimination Day Wikipedia
Religious feast days
- Agnes Tsao Kou Ying (one of the Martyr Saints of China) Wikipedia
- Albin Wikipedia
- Eudokia of Heliopolis Wikipedia
- Pope Felix III Wikipedia
- Leoluca Wikipedia
- Luperculus Wikipedia
- Monan Wikipedia
- Rudesind Wikipedia
- Saint David's Day or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi (Wales and Welsh communities) Wikipedia
- Suitbert Wikipedia
- March 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
National and local
Religious feast days
- Agnes of Bohemia Wikipedia
- Angela of the Cross Wikipedia
- Blessed Charles the Good, Count of Flanders Wikipedia
- Chad of Mercia (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Eastern Orthodox Church) Wikipedia
- John Maron Wikipedia
- March 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
- Feast of 'Alá (Loftiness), First day of the 19th month of the Baháʼí calendar (Baháʼí Faith) and first day of the Baháʼí Nineteen Day Fast Wikipedia
National and local
National and local
- St Casimir's Day (Poland and Lithuania) Wikipedia
Religious feast days
- Adrian of Nicomedia Wikipedia
- Casimir Wikipedia
- Felix of Rhuys Wikipedia
- Giovanni Antonio Farina (Catholic Church) Wikipedia
- Blessed Humbert III, Count of Savoy (Roman Catholic Church) Wikipedia
- Paul Cuffee (Episcopal Church) Wikipedia
- Peter of Pappacarbone Wikipedia
- Blessed Placide Viel Wikipedia
- Blessed Zoltán Meszlényi Wikipedia
- March 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
National and local
- European Day of the Righteous, commemorates those who have stood up against crimes against humanity and totalitarianism with their own moral responsibility. (Europe) Wikipedia
- Norfolk Island Foundation Day, the founding of Norfolk Island in 1788 Wikipedia
- Independence Day (Ghana), celebrates the independence of Ghana from the UK in 1957 Wikipedia
National and local
- Maritime Day in Slovenia Wikipedia
Religious feast days
International
- International Women's Day, and its related observances: International Women's Collaboration Brew Day Wikipedia
Religious feast days
- Catherine of Bologna Wikipedia
- Forty Martyrs of Sebaste Wikipedia
- Frances of Rome Wikipedia
- Pacian Wikipedia
- Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (Coptic Orthodox Church) Wikipedia
- Gregory of Nyssa (Episcopal Church (United States)) Wikipedia
- March 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
- Teachers' Day or Eid Al Moalim (Lebanon) Wikipedia
International
- Mario Day (International) Wikipedia
National and local
Religious feast days
- Christian feast day Attala Wikipedia
- Christian feast day Harriet Tubman (Lutheran) Wikipedia
- Christian feast day John Ogilvie Wikipedia
- Christian feast day Macarius of Jerusalem Wikipedia
- Christian feast day Marie-Eugénie de Jésus Wikipedia
- Christian feast day Pope Simplicius Wikipedia
- Christian feast day Sojourner Truth (Lutheran) Wikipedia
- Christian feast day March 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
National and local
International
- World Day Against Cyber Censorship Wikipedia
National and local
Religious feast days
- Alphege Wikipedia
- Angela Salawa Wikipedia
- Bernard of Carinola (or of Capua) Wikipedia
- Gorgonius, Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus of Nicomedia Wikipedia
- Mura (McFeredach) Wikipedia
- Fina Wikipedia
- Maximilian of Tebessa Wikipedia
- Paul Aurelian Wikipedia
- Pope Gregory I (Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Church, and Anglican Communion) Wikipedia
- Theophanes the Confessor Wikipedia
- March 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
National and local
Religious feast days
- Christian feast days: Ansovinus Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: Christina of Persia Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: Gerald of Mayo Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: James Theodore Holly (Episcopal Church (USA)) Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: Nicephorus Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: Roderick Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: March 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
National and local
- Constitution Day (Andorra) Wikipedia
- Heroes' Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) Wikipedia
- Mother Tongue Day (Estonia) Wikipedia
- Nanakshahi New Year, first day of the month of Chet (Sikhism) Wikipedia
- Pi Day Wikipedia
- Steak and Blowjob Day, a satirical unofficial holiday created in the United States as a male response to Valentine's Day Wikipedia
- Summer Day (Albania) Wikipedia
- White Day on which men give gifts to women; complementary to Valentine's Day (Japan and other Asian nations) Wikipedia
International
National and local
National and local
National and local
- Birthday of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Bangladesh) Wikipedia
- Children's Day (Bangladesh) Wikipedia
- Evacuation Day (Suffolk County, Massachusetts) Wikipedia
- Saint Patrick's Day, a public holiday in Ireland, Montserrat and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, widely celebrated in the English-speaking world and to a lesser degree in other parts of the world Wikipedia
National and local
National and local
- Christian Observances: Alkmund of Derby Wikipedia
- Christian Observances: Blessed Andrea Gallerani Wikipedia
- Christian Observances: Blessed Marcel Callo Wikipedia
- Christian Observances: Blessed Sibyllina Biscossi Wikipedia
- Minna Canth's Birthday and the Day of Equality (Finland) Wikipedia
- Kashubian Unity Day (Poland) Wikipedia
Religious feast days
- Christian Observances: Saint Joseph (Western Christianity; if this date falls on Sunday, the feast is moved to Monday March 20) Saint Joseph's Day (Roman Catholicism and Anglican Communion) related observances: Falles, celebrated on the week leading to March 19 (Valencia) Wikipedia
- Christian Observances: Saint Joseph (Western Christianity; if this date falls on Sunday, the feast is moved to Monday March 20) Saint Joseph's Day (Roman Catholicism and Anglican Communion) related observances: Father's Day (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Honduras, and Bolivia) Wikipedia
- Christian Observances: Saint Joseph (Western Christianity; if this date falls on Sunday, the feast is moved to Monday March 20) Saint Joseph's Day (Roman Catholicism and Anglican Communion) related observances: "Return of the Swallow", annual observance of the swallows' return to Mission San Juan Capistrano in California Wikipedia
- Christian Observances: March 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
- Christian Observances: Earliest day on which Maundy Thursday can fall, while April 22 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday before Easter (Christianity) Wikipedia
International
National and local
Religious feast days
- Alexandra Wikipedia
- Blessed John of Parma Wikipedia
- Clement of Ireland Wikipedia
- Cuthbert of Lindisfarne Wikipedia
- Herbert of Derwentwater Wikipedia
- John of Nepomuk Wikipedia
- Józef Bilczewski Wikipedia
- María Josefa Sancho de Guerra Wikipedia
- Martin of Braga Wikipedia
- Michele Carcano Wikipedia
- Wulfram Wikipedia
- March 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
International
- International Colour Day (International) Wikipedia
- International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (International) Wikipedia
- International Day of Forests (International), by proclamation of the United Nations General Assembly Wikipedia
- World Day for Glaciers (International) Wikipedia
- World Down Syndrome Day (International) Wikipedia
- World Poetry Day (International) Wikipedia
- World Puppetry Day (International) Wikipedia
National and local
- Arbor Day (Lesotho) Wikipedia
- Arbor Day (Portugal) Wikipedia
- Early music Wikipedia
- Education Freedom Day Wikipedia
- Harmony Day (Australia) Wikipedia
- Human Rights Day (South Africa) Wikipedia
- Independence Day (Namibia) Wikipedia
- Mother's Day (most of the Arab world) Wikipedia
- Natalicio de Benito Juárez, one of Fiestas Patrias (Mexico) Wikipedia
- Oltenia Day (Romania) Wikipedia
- Rosie the Riveter Day (United States) Wikipedia
- Truant's Day (Poland, Faroe Islands) Wikipedia
- Vernal equinox related observances (see also March 20) Wikipedia
- Youth Day (Tunisia) Wikipedia
Religious feast days
- Augustine Zhao Rong Wikipedia
- Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello Wikipedia
- Passing of Saint Benedict (Order of Saint Benedict, pre-1970 Calendar) Wikipedia
- Birillus Wikipedia
- Enda of Aran Wikipedia
- Nicholas of Flüe Wikipedia
- Serapion of Thmuis Wikipedia
- Thomas Cranmer (Anglicanism) Wikipedia
- March 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
International
- World Water Day (International) Wikipedia
National and local
Religious feast days
- Basil of Ancyra Wikipedia
- Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen Wikipedia
- Darerca of Ireland Wikipedia
- Epaphroditus Wikipedia
- Jonathan Edwards (Lutheranism) Wikipedia
- Lea of Rome Wikipedia
- Nicholas Owen Wikipedia
- Paul of Narbonne Wikipedia
- March 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
- Earliest day on which Easter Sunday can fall (last in 1818, will not happen again until 2285), while April 25 is the latest. (Christianity) Wikipedia
International
National and local
Religious feast days
- Catherine of Vadstena Wikipedia
- Hildelith of Barking Wikipedia
- Mac Cairthinn of Clogher Wikipedia
- Maria Karłowska Wikipedia
- Óscar Romero (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism) Wikipedia
- Paul Couturier (Church of England) Wikipedia
- Walter Hilton (Church of England) Wikipedia
- March 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
International
National and local
- Christian Saints' days Ælfwold II of Sherborne Wikipedia
- Christian Saints' days Blessed Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas Wikipedia
- Christian Saints' days Omelyan Kovch (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) Wikipedia
- Christian Saints' days Dismas, the "Good Thief" Wikipedia
- Christian Saints' days Hilary Paweł Januszewski Wikipedia
- Christian Saints' days Humbert of Maroilles Wikipedia
- Christian Saints' days Josaphata Hordashevska Wikipedia
- Christian Saints' days Margaret Clitherow Wikipedia
- Christian Saints' days Procopius of Sázava Wikipedia
- Christian Saints' days Quirinus of Tegernsee Wikipedia
- Commemoration Day for the Victims of Communist Genocide (Latvia) Wikipedia
- Cultural Workers Day (Russia) Wikipedia
- Empress Menen's Birthday (Rastafari) Wikipedia
- EU Talent Day (European Union) Wikipedia
- Freedom Day (Belarus) Wikipedia
- Independence Day, celebrates the start of Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire, in 1821. (Greece) Wikipedia
- Maryland Day (Maryland, United States) Wikipedia
- Medal of Honor Day (United States) Wikipedia
- Mother's Day (Slovenia) Wikipedia
- New Year's Day (Lady Day) in England, Wales, Ireland, and some of the future United States and Canada from 1155 through 1751, until the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 moved it to 1 January and adopted the Gregorian calendar. (The year 1751 began on 25 March; the year 1752 began on 1 January.) It was also New Years Day in Scotland until (and including) 25 March 1599; 1600 in Scotland began in 1 January – see Calendar (New Style) Act 1750#Scotland Wikipedia
- New Year's Day (Lady Day) in England, Wales, Ireland, and some of the future United States and Canada from 1155 through 1751, until the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 moved it to 1 January and adopted the Gregorian calendar. (The year 1751 began on 25 March; the year 1752 began on 1 January.) Some other European countries also celebrated 25 March as New Years Day until the late Medieval period – see New Year#Historical European new year dates Wikipedia
- NZ Army Day Wikipedia
- Quarter day (first of four) in Ireland and England Wikipedia
- Struggle for Human Rights Day (Slovakia) Wikipedia
- Tolkien Reading Day Wikipedia
- Vårfrudagen or Våffeldagen, "Waffle Day" (Sweden, Norway & Denmark) Wikipedia
National and local
- Independence Day and National Day (Bangladesh), celebrates the declaration of independence from Pakistan in 1971 Wikipedia
- Martyr's Day or Day of Democracy (Mali) Wikipedia
- National Science Appreciation Day (United States) Wikipedia
- Prince Kūhiō Day (Hawaii, United States) Wikipedia
- Purple Day (Canada and United States) Wikipedia
- Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel (Eastern Christianity) Wikipedia
Religious feast days
- Christian feast days: Barontius and Desiderius Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: Castulus Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: Emmanuel and companions Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: Felicitas Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: Harriet Monsell (Church of England) Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: Larissa Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: Ludger Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: Maddalena Caterina Morano Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: Richard Allen (Episcopal Church (USA)) Wikipedia
- Christian feast days: March 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
International
- World Theatre Day (International) Wikipedia
National and local
Religious feast days
- Easter (Palmarian Church) Wikipedia
- Alexander, a Pannonian soldier, martyred in 3rd century Wikipedia
- Amador of Portugal Wikipedia
- Augusta of Treviso Wikipedia
- Charles Henry Brent (Episcopal Church (USA)) Wikipedia
- Gelasius, Archbishop of Armagh Wikipedia
- John of Egypt Wikipedia
- Panacea De' Muzzi Wikipedia
- Philetus Wikipedia
- Romulus of Nîmes, a Benedictine abbot, martyred c. 730 Wikipedia
- Rupert of Salzburg Wikipedia
- Zanitas and Lazarus of Persia Wikipedia
- March 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
National and local
National and local
National and local
Religious feast days
- Blessed Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy Wikipedia
- Blessed Maria Restituta Kafka Wikipedia
- John Climacus Wikipedia
- Mamertinus of Auxerre Wikipedia
- Quirinus of Neuss Wikipedia
- Thomas Son Chasuhn, Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy (part of The Korean Martyrs) Wikipedia
- Tola of Clonard Wikipedia
- March 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
National and local
Religious feast days
- Christian feast day Abdas of Susa Wikipedia
- Christian feast day Acathius of Melitene (Eastern Orthodox Church) Wikipedia
- Christian feast day Anesius and companions Wikipedia
- Christian feast day Benjamin Wikipedia
- Christian feast day Balbina Wikipedia
- Christian feast day John Donne (Anglican Communion, Lutheran) Wikipedia
- Christian feast day Natalia Tułasiewicz Wikipedia
- Christian feast day March 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia