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This is a list of selected March 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
Martenitsa in Bulgaria needs more footnotes
Victory at Adwa Day in Ethiopia (1896); unreferenced section
Mărțișor in Moldova and Romania original research, unreliable sources
1562 – Troops of Francis, Duke of Guise, massacred Huguenots in Wassy, France, starting the French Wars of Religion. massacre: refimprove section; wars: refimprove section
1565Rio de Janeiro was founded by the Portuguese as São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro. refimprove section
1633Samuel de Champlain reclaimed his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu. refimprove section
1692Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba were brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning the Salem witch trials. refimprove sections
1700 – Sweden introduced its own calendar in an attempt to reform into the Gregorian calendar. refimprove
1781 – The Articles of Confederation, the first governing constitution of the United States, was ratified, legally uniting what were originally several independent states into a new sovereign federation. unreferenced section
1805Samuel Chase, the only Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to be impeached, was acquitted by the Senate. refimprove section
1811Muhammad Ali Pasha, Wāli of the Ottoman province of Egypt, killed the leaders of the Mamluk Sultanate to seize power, founding a dynasty that would last until 1952. refimprove section
1896 – Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of Adwa, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War. unreferenced section
1896 – French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered the principle of radioactive decay when he exposed photographic plates to uranium. refimprove
1919Korea under Japanese rule: The Samil Movement began with numerous peaceful protests in Korea, but was brutally suppressed by the Japanese police and army. refimprove
1954 – The 15-megaton hydrogen bomb Castle Bravo was detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in one of the worst cases of radioactive contamination ever caused by nuclear weapons testing. tagged more footnotes
1954 – Four Puerto Rican nationalists shot 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols during an open session of the United States House of Representatives, injuring five people. refimprove section
1961U.S. President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. unreferenced section
1947 – The International Monetary Fund began its financial operations. refimprove section
1956 – The NATO phonetic alphabet, today the most widely used spelling alphabet, was first implemented by the International Civil Aviation Organization. refimprove section
1979Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands. refimprove section
19811981 Irish hunger strike save for October 3
1991Uprisings against Saddam Hussein began in Iraq, leading to the death of more than 25,000 people, mostly civilians. unreferenced section
2007Danish police forcibly evicted squatters from the Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, prompting widespread rioting that would result in 690 arrests in three days. external links
2009 – The Special Tribunal for Lebanon opened in Leidschendam, Netherlands to prosecute those accused of the 2005 terrorist attack that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri and 21 others. multiple issues

Eligible

March 1: Purim (Judaism, 2018); Independence Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992); National Pig Day in the United States; Saint David's Day in Wales; Yap Day in Yap

Bison in Yellowstone
Bison in Yellowstone

Vladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1456) · Francesco Redi (d. 1697) · Nick Griffin (b. 1959)

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