March 2009

• Automotive industry crisis
• Diplomatic response to Abkhazian and South Ossetian independence
• International recognition of Kosovo
• Global financial crisis
• French Caribbean general strikes
• Icelandic financial crisis
• Irish banking crisis
• Malagasy protests
• Nord-Kivu campaign
• Piracy in Somalia
• Russian financial crisis
• Treaty of Lisbon ratification
• World food price crisis
• Zimbabwean cholera outbreak

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March

• 22: Jade Goody
• 18: Natasha Richardson
• 16: Nicholas Henderson
• 15: Ron Silver
• 14: Altovise Davis
• 14: Alain Bashung
• 13: Anne Brown
• 13: Alan W. Livingston
• 13: William Davidson
• 13: Andrew Martin
• 13: James Purdy
• 12: Leonore Annenberg
• 11: Tim Kretschmer
• 9: Joseph Martin
• 9: Ernest Trova
• 8: Hank Locklin
• 8: Ali Bongo
• 8: Jimmy Boyd
• 7: Daniel E. Button
• 6: Jim Bellows
• 6: Colleen Howe
• 6: Susan Tsvangirai
• 6: Henri Pousseur
• 6: Francis Magalona
• 4: John Cephas
• 4: Yvon Cormier
• 4: Patricia De Martelaere
• 4: Horton Foote
• 4: George McAfee
• 4: Salvatore Samperi
• 3: Sydney Earle Chaplin
• 2: Ernie Ashworth
• 2: Chris Finnegan
• 2: João Bernardo Vieira

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• War in Afghanistan
• Balochistan conflict
• Casamance Conflict
• Fourth Civil War of Chad
• Second Chechen War
• Colombian Civil War
• War in Darfur
• Fatah–Hamas conflict
• Iran-PJAK conflict
• Iraq War
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
• Kayin State Conflict
• Kivu conflict
• Insurgency in the Maghreb
• Mexican Drug War
• Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
• Naxalite-Maoist insurgency
• Conflict in the Niger Delta
• Insurgency in Ogaden
• Communist and Islamic Insurgency in the Philippines
• The Secret War
• Somali Civil War
• Sri Lankan Civil War
• War on Terrorism
• South Thailand insurgency
• Second Tuareg Rebellion
• Turkey-PKK conflict
• Second Ugandan Civil War

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Recent

• 15 February: Venezuela, Constitutional referendum
• 16 February: Bangladesh, President (by the parliament)

Upcoming

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Upcoming

• Austria: Josef Fritzl
• Canada: Larry O'Brien
• Estonia: Herman Simm
• Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim
• Netherlands: ICTY
  • Radovan Karadžić
• Singapore: Chee Soon Juan and others
• Singapore: Peter Lloyd
• U.S.: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá
• U.S.: Viktor Bout
• U.S.: Noshir Gowadia
• U.S.: William J. Jefferson
• U.S.: James Charles Kopp
• U.S.: Bernard L. Madoff
• U.S.: Ehren Watada
• U.S.: Sheila Dixon
• U.S.: Joseph Bruno

Ongoing

• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
• Iraq: Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal
• Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox
• Netherlands: ICC
  • Thomas Lubanga
• Netherlands: ICTY
• Peru: Alberto Fujimori
• Republic of China (Taiwan): Chen Shui-bian
• Sierra Leone: SCfSL
  • Charles Taylor
• Sweden: The Pirate Bay
• Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
• US: Jena Six
• US: Phil Spector

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March

• 1: Self Injury Awareness Day
• 1: Independence Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• 1: Baba Marta Day (Bulgaria)
• 1: Yap Day (Federated States of Micronesia)
• 1: Beer Day (Iceland)
• 1: Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day (Marshall Islands) (observed March 2)
• 1: Admission Day (Nebraska)
• 1: Republic's Day (Neuchâtel)
• 1: Admission Day (Ohio)
• 1: Heroes' Day (Paraguay)
• 1: Mărţişor (Romania)
• 1: Independence Declaration Day (South Korea)
• 1: Saint David's Day (Wales)
• 2: Read Across America (USA)
• 3: Square root day
• 7: Nyepi (Indonesia)
• 8: Women's Day (India, Russia, South Africa)
• 9: Commonwealth Day (Commonwealth of Nations)
• 12: Arbor Day (China)
• 14: New Year's Day (Sikh Nanakshahi calendar)
• 14: Pi Day
• 14: White Day (Japan and Korea)
• 15: National Day (Hungary)
• 15: Hōnen Matsuri (Japan)
• 15: Ides of March, Roman Calendar
• 17: St. Patrick's Day

• 19: Saint Joseph's Day (Western Christianity)
• 19: Fathers' Day (Bolivia, Honduras, Italy, Liechtenstein, Portugal, Spain)

• 19: Canberra Day (Australian Capital Territory)

• 20: Norouz (Iran and Zoroastrianism)

• 21: Purim (Jewish holiday)

• 21: World Poetry Day

• 21: Equinoctial Earth Day

• 22: World Day for Water

• March 22: Mothering Sunday, United Kingdom

• 23: Republic Day (Pakistan)

• 24: World Tuberculosis Day

• 25: Independence Day (Greece)

• 25: Freedom Day (Belarus)
• 25: Feast of the Annunciation

• 26: St. Gregory's Day (Malta)
• 28: Teachers' Day (Czech Republic and Slovakia)

• 30: Spiritual Baptist Shouter Liberation Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
• 31: Feast of the Annunciation (Catholicism)
• 31: César Chávez Day (some U.S. states)
• 31: Freedom Day (Malta)
• 31: Mawlid (Islam)

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