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 

• Bisexual Health 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 2-3 – 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 6 – Employee Appreciation Day

• March 6 – World Day of Prayer 

• March 7 – Anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama in 1965  

• March 8 – International Women’s Day 

• March 10 – Anniversary of the death of Harriet Tubman in 1913 

• 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 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 21 – Anniversary of the killing of Dexter Reed by the Chicago Police Department in 2025 

• 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 24 – International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims 

• 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 31 – Transgender Day of Visibility 

• March 31 – Anniversary of the death of Anne Frank in 1945