March Holidays & Observances

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	March Observances:		poster links	Links for Learning
		Read Across America- March 2 (Dr. Seuss's Birthday -1904)	Historic Reading posters (vintage)	National Educational Association
		Women's History Month	women's posters	U.S. Census Bureau Facts & Figures
		Irish American Heritage Month	Ireland posters	About Ireland
		Youth Art Month	art & music posters	• Council for Art Education • CP Links for Learning - art
		Music in Our Schools Month	art & music posters	National Assoc for Music Education
		Red Cross Month	Clara Barton print	American Red Cross
		National Nutrition Month	nutrition posters	American Dietetic Association

		First Week of March

		Second Week of March

		Third Week of March
		National Poison Prevention Week	safety posters	Poison Prevention.org
		March 24, World Tuberculosis Day	tuberculosis health posters	Stop Tuberculosis

		Fourth Week of March

	March Holidays
		World Day of Prayer (1st Friday in March)	peace posters	World Day of Prayer
		March 8 - International Women's Day	notable women posters	Interantional Women's Day site
		March 10, 2009 - Purim/Holiday of Joy (Feb 28, 2010; March 20, 2011)	Judaism posters	Judaism 101
		March 11, 2009 - Holi Festival (March 1, 2010)	Hindu posters	Hinduism.org
		March 15 - Ides of March (BEWARE!)	Shakespeare posters	Every month has its Ides: the 13th or 15th; also its Kalends: the 1st (root word calendar); and Nones: 5th or 7th. more info
		March 17 - St. Patrick's Day	Ireland posters Irish Blessings, pdf download	St. Patrick's History
		March 20 - Spring Equinox	Spring posters Stonehenge posters	Solar Folklore
		March 20 - International Earth Day (see April celebrations also)	Ecology posters	Earthday Network
		March 23, 2008 - Easter Sunday (4-12-2009; 4-4-2010)	Christianity posters

	March Notable Dates


		d. 3-1-1510 - Francisco de Almeida, explorer	Francisco de Almeida print	Francisco de Almeida Resource File
		3-1-1803 - Ohio Admission Day, 17th	Ohio posters	Ohio Historical Society
		b. 3-1-1810 - Frederic Chopin, composer	Chopin posters	Chopin Resource File
		3-1-1867 - Nebraska Admission Day, 37th	Nebraska posters	Nebraska State Historical Society
		3-1-1872 - 1st US National Park Yellowstone established.	national parks posters	National Park Service History Yellowstone Park
		b. 3-1-1886 - Oskar Kokoschka, artist	Expressionists prints	Oskar Kokoschka Resource File

		b. 3-2-1824 - Bedrich Smetana, composer	Bedrich Smetana print	Bedrich Smetana Resource File
		b. 3-2-1904 - Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Geisel	Dr. Seuss print	Dr, Seuss Resource File
		b. 3-2-1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev, politician	Mikhail Gorbachev poster	Mikhail Gorbachev Resource File

		3-3-1845 - Florida Admission Day, 27th	Florida posters	Florida Office of Cultural & Historical Programs
		b. 3-3-1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, inventor	Alexander Graham Bell poster	Alexander Graham Bell Bio
		b. 3-3-1911 - Jean Harlow, actress	Jean Harlow photo	Jean Harlow Resource File
		b. 3-3-1914 - Ralph Waldo Ellison, author	Ralph Waldo Ellison posters	CP Links for Learning - Ellison

		b. 3-4-1394 - Prince Henry the Navigator	Prince Henry the Navigator print	Prince Henry the Navigator Resource File
		b. 3-4-1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, composer	Vivaldi posters	Antonio Vivaldi Resource File
		3-4-1788 - Vermont Admission Day, 14th	Vermont posters	Vermont State Historic Sites
		b. 3-4-1877 - Garrett Morgan, inventor	black history posters	Garrett Morgan Bio

		3-5-1770 - Boston Massacre	American Revolution posters	Boston Massacre Historical Society
		3-5-1933 - Nazi party won the majority of seats in the Reichstag, taking over Germany; the last free election in Germany until after defeat in WWII.	• WWII posters • Germany posters

		b. 3-6-1475 - Michelangelo, artist	Michelangelo posters	CP Links for Learning - Michelangelo
		b. 3-6-1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet	Elizabeth Barrett Browning print	Women's Studies Reading Room, Univ of Maryland
		3-6-1819, McCulloch v Maryland - U.S. Supreme Court decision, "that a government, entrusted with such ample powers . . . must also be entrusted with ample means for their execution."	Landmark Supreme Court Decisions posters	Background on McCulloch v Maryland
		b. 3-6-1841 - Marie Alfred Cornu, scientist	Marie Alfred Cornu print	Marie Alfred Cornu Resource File
		b. 3-6/18-1844, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, composer	Rimsky-Korsakov print	Rimsky-Korsakov Resource File
		b. 3-6-1885 - Ring Lardner, author
		b. 3-6-1924 - Sarah Caldwell, conductor	Sarah Caldwell TIME Magazine Cover	Sarah Caldwell Resource File
		b. 3-6-1928 - Gabriel Garcia Mårquez, author	Gabriel Garcia Mårquez poster	Gabriel Garcia Mårquez Resource File

		b. 3-7-1274 - Saint Thomas Aquinas, theologian	Saint Thomas Aquinas print	Saint Thomas Aquinas Resource File
		Rob Roy, Scotland national hero	Rob Roy print	Rob Roy Resources File
		b. 3-7-1849 - Luther Burbank, botanist	Luther Burbank print	Luther Burbank Resource File
		b. 3-7-1875 - Maurice Ravel, composer	Maurice Ravel print	Maurice Ravel Resources File
		d. 3-7-1942 - Lucy Parson, civil rights activist	Lucy Parson, Images of Labor 9oster	Lucy Parsons Bio

		b. 3-8-1841 - Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr., jurist	Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr. TIME Cover	Oliver Wendel Holmes Resource File
		b. 3-8-1859 - Kenneth Grahame, author	Kenneth Grahame poster	Kenneth Grahame Resource File

		d. 3-9-886 - Albumascar, astronomer	Albumascar print	Albumascar Resource File
		b. 3-9-1454 - Amerigo Vespucci, explorer	Amerigo Vespucci print	Amerigo Vespucci Resource File
		b. 3-9-1838 - Modest Mussorgsky, composer	Modest Mussorgsky print	Modest Mussorgsky Resource File
		b. 3-9-1858 - Gustav Stickley, architect	Gustav Stickley print	Gustav Stickley Resource File
		b. 3-9-1873 - Lilian Braithwaite, actress	Lilian Braithwaite print	Lilian Braithwaite Resource file

		b. 3-10-1844 - Marie Spartali Stillman, artist	Marie Spartali Stillman print	Marie Spartali Stillman Resource File
		3-10-1862 - First paper currency issued in United States	money posters	Thinkquest: History of Money
		3-10-1876 - First Telephone Conversation-“Mr. Watson, come here!”	Alexander Graham Bell poster	Telephone History
		d. 3-10-1876 - Harriet Tubman -	Harriet Tubman posters	Harriet Tubman Resource File

		d. 3-11-1514 - Donato Bramante, architect	Donato Bramante print	Donato Bramante Resource File
		b. 3-11-1811 - Urbain le Verrier, astronomer	Urbain le Verrier print	Urbain le Verrier Resource File

		b. 3-12-1837 - Felix-Alexandre Guilmant, composer	Guilmant print	Felix-Alexandre Guilmant Resource File
		March 12, 1912 - Girl Scouts began by Juliet Gordon Low in Savannan, GA.	famous women posters	Girl Scouts
		b. 3-12-1922 - Jack Kerouac, author	Jack Kerouac magnet	Jack Kerouac Resource File

		b. 3-13-1733 - Joseph Priestley, scientist	Joseph Priestley print	Joseph Priestley Resource File
		b. 3-13-1781 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel, architect	Schinkel print	Karl Friedrich Schinkel Resource File
		b. 3-13-1855 - Percival Lowell, astronomer	Percival Lowell print	Percival Lowell Resource File
		b. 3-13-1864 - Alexij von Jawlensky, artist	Expressionists prints	Alexij von Jawlensky Resource File
		b. 3-13-1883 - Enrico Toselli, composer	Enrico Toselli print	Enrico Toselli Resource File

		d. 3-14-1471 - Sir Thomas Malory, poet	Le Morte d'Arthur illustration	Sir Thomas Malory Resource File
		b. 3-14-1743 - Hannah Cowley, author	Hannah Cowley prints	Hannah Cowley Resource File
		b. 3-14-1782 - Sen. Thomas Hart Benton, politician	Thomas Hart Benton print	Thomas Hart Benton Resource File
		b. 3-14-1804 - Johann Strauss the Elder, composer	Johann Strauss posters	Johann Strauss Resource File
		b. 3-14-1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, astronomer	Giovanni Schiaparelli print	Giovanni Schiaparelli Resource File
		b. 3-14-1879 - Albert Einstein, scientist	Einstein posters	CP Links for Learning - Einstein
		b. 3-14-1903 - Aldolph Gottlieb, artist	Aldolph Gottlieb art print	Aldolph Gottlieb Resource File

		b. 3-15-1512 - Gerardus Mercator, cartographer	Gerardus Mercator print	Gerardus Mercator Resource File
		b. 3-15-1767 - Andrew Jackson, US President	Andrew Jackson print	White House Bio - Jackson
		3-15-1820 - Maine Admission Day, 23th	Maine posters
		March 15 - Buzzards return to Hinckley	birds posters	Hinckley Buzzard Day

		3-16-1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines	Magellan poster	Ferdinand Magellan Article
		b. 3-16-1750 - Caroline Herschel, astronomer	Caroline Herschel portrait	Caroline Herschel Resource File
		b. 3-16-1751 - James Madison, US President	James Madison print	White House Bio - Madison
		b. 3-16-1774 - Matthew Flinders, explorer	Matthew Flinders print	Matthew Flinders Resource File
		b. 3-16-1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist	Georg Simon Ohm print	Georg Simon Ohm Resource File
		b. 3-16-1822 - Rosa Bonheur, artist	Rosa Bonheur print	Rosa Bonheur Resource File
		b. 3-16-1839 - "Sully" Prudhomme, author	"Sully" Prudhomme portrait	Rene-Francois-Armand "Sully" Prudhomme Resource File
		b. 3-16-1926 - 1st Liquid-Fuel Rocket Fight	Inventions posters	Liquid Fuel Rocket Resource File

		b. 3-17-1846 - Kate Greenaway, artist	Kate Greenaway print	Kate Greenaway Resource File
		b. 3-17-1919 - Nat "King" Cole, singer	Nat "King" Cole poster	Nat "King" Cole Resource File

		b. 3-18-1634 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de la Fayette, author	Comtesse de la Fayette print	Comtesse de la Fayette Resource Flle
		b. 3-18-1837 - Grover Cleveland, US President	presidents posters	White House Bio - Cleveland
		b. 3-18-1842 - Stephane Mallarme, author	Stephane Mallarme print	Stephane Mallarme Resource File
		b. 3-18-1932 - John Updike, author	John Updike print	John Updike Resource File

		March 19 - Swallows return to Capistrano	birds posters	Mission San Juan Capistrano
		b. 3-19-1813 - David Livingstone, explorer	Stanley & Livingstone print	Dr. David Livingstone Resource File
		b. 3-19-1821 - Richard Burton, explorer	Richard Burton portrait	Richard F. Burton Resource File
		b. 3-19-1832 - Armin Vambery, explorer	Armin Vambery print	Armin Vambery Resource File
		b. 3-19-1860 - William Jennings Bryan, author & politician	William Jennings Bryan print	William Jennings Bryan Res File

		b. 3-20-1811 - George Caleb Bingham, artist	George Caleb Bingham	George Caleb Bingham Resource File
		b. 3-20-1828 - Henrik Ibsen, playwright	Henrik Ibsen print	Henrik Ibsen Resource File
		b. 3-20-1890 - Lauritz Melchior, opera singer	Lauritz Melchior print	Lauritz Melchior Resource File

		b. 3-21-1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, composer	Bach posters	Happy Birthday, Johann Sebastian Bach
		b. 3-21-1880 - Hans Hofmann, artist	Hans Hofmann art print	Hans Hofmann Resource File
		b. 3-21-1905 - Phyllis McGinley, author	Phyllis McGinley TIME cover

		b. 3-23-1749 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, astronomer	Pierre-Simon Laplace print	Pierre-Simon Laplace Resource File
		b. 3-23-1905 - Joan Crawford, actress	Joan Crawford photo	Joan Crawford Resource File

		b. 3-24-1808 - Maria Malibran, actress	Maria Malibran as Desdemona print	Maria Malibran Resource File
		b. 3-24-1833 - William Morris, author & artist	William Morris print	William Morris Resource File
		b. 3-24-1874 - Harry Houdini, magician	Harry Houdini posters	Houdini: A Biographical Chronology, Library of Congress

		b. 3-25-1347 - Saint Catherine of Siena	Catherine of Siena print	Catherine of Siena Resource File
		b. 3-25-1538 - Christoph Clavius, astronomer	Christoph Clavius print	Christoph Clavius Resource File
		b. 3-25-1775 - Sophie Blanchard, balloonist	Sophie Blanchard print	Sophie Blanchard Resource File
		b. 3-25-1867 - Arturo Toscanini, composer	Arturo Toscanini poster	Arturo Toscanini Resource File
		b. 3-25-1881 - Bela Bartok, composer	Bela Bartok print	Bela Bartok Resource File
		b. 3-25-1914 - Norman E. Borlaug, botanist	Norman E. Borlaug photo	Norman E. Borlaug Resource File
		b. 3-25-1925 - Flannery O'Connor, author	Flannery O'Connor poster	Flannery O'Connor: A Brief Biography
		b. 3-25-1925 - Gloria Steinem, feminist	Gloria Steinem poster	Gloria Steinem Resource File
		b. 3-25-1942 - Aretha Franklin, singer	Aretha Franklin print	Aretha Franklin Resource File

		b. 3-26-1874 - Robert Frost, poet	Robert Frost posters	CP Links for Learning - Frost
		b. 3-26-1911 - Tennessee Williams, author	Tennessee Williams poster	Tennessee Williams Bio

		b. 3-27-1845 - Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, scientist	WK Roentgen print	Roentgen Resource File
		b. 3-27-1886 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, architect	Mies van der Rohe print	Mies van der Rohe Resource File
		b. 3-27-1899 - Gloria Swanson, actress	Gloria Swanson print	Gloria Swanson Resource File
		b. 3-27-1901 - Eisaku Sato, Nobel Peace Prize	Eisaku Sato print	Eisaku Sato Resource File
		b. 3-27-1924 - Sarah Vaughan, singer	Sarah Vaughan poster	Sarah Vaughan Resource File
		b. 3-27-1950 - Julia Alverez, author	Julia Alverez posters	CP Links for Learning - Alverez

		b. 3-28-1509 - Saint Teresa of Avila	Teresa of Avila print	Teresa of Avila Resource File
		b. 3-28-1862 - Aristide Briand, Nobel Peace Prize	Aristide Briand TIME cover	Aristide Briand Resource File
		b. 3-28-1868 - Maxim Gorky, author	Maxim Gorky print	Maxim Gorky Resource File
		b. 3-28-1871 - Josef Willem Mengelberg, pianist	Josef Willem Mengelberg photographic print	Josef Willem Mengelberg Resource File

		b. 3-29-1790 - John Tyler, US President	John Tyler print	White House Bio - Tyler
		b. 3-29-1918 - Pearl Bailey, singer	Pearl Bailey framed CD	Pearl Bailey Resource File

		b. 3-30-1135 - Moses Maimonides, rabbi, philosopher & physician	Maimonides print	Maimonides Resource File
		b. 3-30-1754 - Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier	Pilatre de Rozier print	Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier Resource File
		b. 3-30-1853 - Vincent Van Gogh, artist	Van Gogh posters	CP Links for Learning Van Gogh
		b. 3-30-1903 - Countee Cullen, poet	Countee Cullen poster	Countee Cullen Article

		b. 3-31-1596 - Rene Descartes, philosopher	mathematician posters	Rene Descartes Resource File
		b. 3-31 or 4-1-1732 - Joseph Haydn, composer	Joseph Haydn posters	Joseph Haydn Resource File
		b. 3-31-1914 - Octavio Paz, author	Octavio Paz poster	Octavio Paz Resource File
		b. 3-31-1927 - César Chávez, labor leader	César Chávez posters	CP Links for Learning - Chávez
		b. 3-31-1948 - Albert Gore, Jr., US Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize	Al Gore Rolling Stone cover	Al Gore Resource File
		March 1965 - Vietnam: Rolling Thunder Launches, First Campus Sit-in	Vietnam War Era posters	Chronology of U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War

	March Facts Facts & Tidbits
		March, the third month of the year, is named for the Roman god of war, Mars. (ummm-marching??) Other names of March are Lenctmonat (root of Lent) and Rhed-monat, for the goddess Rhedam (Saxon), Anthesterion in ancient Hellenic civilzation, and hyld-monath meaning loud or stormy for the ancient Britons. A famous saying with March is "if March comes in like a lion, it will go out like a lamb, but if it comes in like a lamb, it will go out like a lion."- Optimize on a teachable moment with weather posters, make a simple chart with your students to track the weather.
		March Astrological Signs
		• Pisces: Feb 19 - March 20	• Pisces poster • Pisces, the Fish Ecard	mutable, water, universal; I believe," feeling, duality, spirituality, soul growth, suffering, artistic, overly emotional, feet
		• Aries: March 21 - April 19	• Aries poster • Aries, the Ram Ecard	cardinal, fire, personal; "I want," action oriented, pioneering, assertive, "me" first, enthusiasm, leader, competitive, selfish, head/brain; assertive, impulsive, head down; imaginative, sensitive, distracted.
		March Birthstones
		• Aquamarine has a delicate blue or turquoise color suggestive of the tint of seawater (aqua + marine). Aquamarine is a transparent variety of beryl and is attributed with foresight, courage, and happiness. • Bloodstone, signifying vitality, stamina, and endurance, is green jasper with flecks of red jasper or iron oxide. In the Middle Ages the red spots were attibuted to the Blood of Christ.		• Birthstones (U of Washington) • Aquamarine Resource File • Bloodstone Resource File • Intern'l Colored Gemstone Assoc.
		March Flowers
		• Narcissus - respect, regard, unrequited love.	• flower posters	• Naricissus Resource File
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last updated 10/11/08

MARCH HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES