March is full of observances! Check out the list below and take action with CRS by engaging with our Facebook and Instagram posts that acknowledge these special designations.
National Women’s History Month
Social Work/ers Month
Gender Equality Month
Bisexual Health Awareness Month
National Nutrition Month
Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
March 1 – International Women of Color Day
March 1 – World Compliment Day
March 1 – Zero Discrimination Day
March 2 – Anniversary of the arrest of Claudette Colvin in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955
March 2 – National Read Across America Day
March 2-3 – Purim
March 3 – I Want You to be Happy Day
March 3 – Holika Dahan
March 3 – Makha Bucha (Magha Puja)
March 3-4 – Shushan Purim
March 4 – Anniversary of Chicago’s incorporation as a city in 1837
March 4 – Holi
March 5 – Anniversary of the death of Hugo Chavez in 2013
March 5 – Anniversary of the death of Bernard Lafayette Jr. in 2026
March 6 – Ghana Independence Day
March 6 – Employee Appreciation Day
March 6 – World Day of Prayer
March 6 – Black Balloon Day
March 7 – Anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama in 1965
March 8 – International Women’s Day
March 10 – National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
March 10 – Anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman in 1913
March 10 – 312 Day
March 13 – Anniversary of the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020
March 14 – Anniversary of the death of Fannie Lou Hamer in 1977
March 15 – International Day Against Police Brutality
March 16-20 – LGBTQIA+ Health Awareness Week
March 17 – Anniversary of the birth of Myrlie Evers in 1933
March 17-23 – Higan-e
March 18 – Supreme Sacrifice Day
March 19 – Ramadan Ends
March 19-20 – Eid al-Fitr
March 20 – International Day of Happiness
March 20 – Nowruz (Persian New Year)
March 20 – National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD)
March 21 – Anniversary of the killing of Dexter Reed by the Chicago Police Department in 2024
March 21 – World Poetry Day
March 21 – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 21-27 – Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination
March 22 – World Water Day
March 22 – World Doula Day
March 22-28 – World Doula Week
March 23 – Anniversary of when the Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010
March 24 – International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims
March 24 – World Tuberculosis (TB) Day
March 24 – American Diabetes Alert Day
March 24 – National Agriculture Day
March 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
March 25 – Anniversary of the death of Ida B. Wells-Barnett in 1931
March 25 – Anniversary of the end of the March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965
March 29 – Palm Sunday
March 31 – Transgender Day of Visibility