- Women’s History Month – Honors women as significant agents of historical change.
- Dental Assistants Recognition Week
- National Nutrition Month
- Ethics Awareness Month
- National Crafts Month
- National School Social Work Month
- National Reading Month
- National Music in Our Schools Month
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week- Mar. 9-15
- March 2– March 20 NINETEEN-DAY FAST • Bahá’í Baha’is between 15 and 70 years of age do not eat or drink from sunrise to sunset and set aside time for prayer and meditation.
- March 2-8- National School Social work week- This week is held during the first full week of March. The School of Social Work Association of America promotes this week.
- March 2 – Read Across America Day to celebrate reading and encourage people of all ages to discover the wonder of books. Promotes National Reading Month.
- March 3 – CLEAN MONDAY • Eastern Christian. The beginning of Great Lent for Eastern Christian churches, which starts 40 days before Orthodox Easter (Pascha), counting Sundays.
- March 4- SHROVE TUESDAY. Western Christian – Feast before Lent
- March 5 – ASH WEDNESDAY. Western Christian. 1st day of Lent.
- March 13-14 – PURIM Jewish – The “Feast of Lots” marks the salvation of the Jews of ancient Persia from extermination.
- March 8 – INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY Celebration of the economic, political, and social achievements of women worldwide. Without regard to divisions, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political or economic.
- March 14-16 – HOLLA MOHALLA • Sikh. An annual event which is a martial arts parade historically coinciding with Holi, the Hindu festival of colors. Celebrations related to Holla Mohalla may be held in various locations over several weekends preceding the actual date of the holiday.
- March 14 – HOLI • Hindu A spring festival in India and Nepal dedicated to the god of pleasure, also known as the festival of colors or the festival of sharing love. The day signifies the triumph of good over evil. Victory of Vishnu over Hiranyakashipu.
- March 14 – Jewish German America Birthday: Albert Einstein – leading theoretical physicist of the 20th century. Known for his development of the theory of E=mc2. He also won Nobel prize in Physics in 1921.
- March 17 – ST. PATRICK’S DAY • Christian Feast day of the patron saint of Ireland. In the U.S., a secular version is celebrated by people of all faiths through appreciation of all things Irish.
- March 20 – VERNAL EQUINOX The date when night and day are nearly the same length. It marks the first day of the season of spring.
- March 20 – NOWRÚZ • Zoroastrian A traditional ancient Iranian festival celebrating the first day of Spring and the Iranian New Year. Also celebrated as New Year’s Day in Baha’i tradition (Naw-Ruz).
- March 31 – CESAR CHAVEZ DAY Honors Mexican American farm worker, labor leader and activist Cesar Chavez (1927–1993) who was a nationally respected voice for social justice.
- March 31- Transgender Day of Visibility. Honors a Day of Visibility to celebrate and amplify the accomplishments of transgender and gender nonconforming people. Today also helps us to bring awareness to the work that still needs to be done to achieve trans rights and trans justice.
