- Mar 1 Gustav Klimt's painting "Bauerngarten" sells for $59.3m in London
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Mar 2 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the investigation into Trump campaign contacts with Russia after revelations he met Russian ambassador
- Mar 3 Mass grave of 800 children and infants confirmed at a former Catholic care home in Tuam, Ireland
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Mar 5 US President Donald Trump in a tweet accuses former President Obama without offering any evidence of wiretapping Trump Towers during the presidential campaign
- Mar 6 US President Donald Trump signs his second executive order barring travelers from 6 mostly-Muslim countries for 90 days but leaves out Iraq
- Mar 7 19 girls killed in a fire at a government-run care center in San José Pinula, Guatemala
- Mar 7 Malta's famous landmark the Azure Window collapses into the sea after a storm
- Mar 8 Aboriginal DNA study by University of Adelaide shows Aboriginal population dates back 50,000 years from one migration
- Mar 8 FC Barcelona in a great comeback become 1st team to overturn 4-0 deficit beating St-Germain 6-5 in return game to reach the Champions League quarter finals
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Mar 10 South Korean judges uphold parliaments' decision to impeach President Park Geun-hye
- Mar 11 At least 65 killed in landslide at rubbish dump near Addis Ababa, Ethopia
- Mar 11 England retains the Six Nations Rugby Championship with 61-21 win over Scotland at Twickenham; England's 11th consecutive Six Nations win and equals NZ's record of 18 consecutive international wins
- Mar 12 Irene Sankoff and David Hein's musical drama "Come From Away" opens at Schoenfeld Theatre, NYC
- Mar 14 European Court of Justice rules companies can ban staff from wearing religious symbols, including headscarves
- Mar 14 World's oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for 1st time in 273 years
- Mar 15 Disney refuses to cut gay moment in film "Beauty and the Beast" for Malaysian censors, instead pulls film from Malaysia
Election of Interest
Mar 15 Dutch elections; Prime Minister Mark Rutte's centre-right VVD party win 33 seats vs against 20 for right wing Geert Wilder's Party of Freedom
- Mar 16 US President Donald Trump's second travel ban is blocked by 2 federal courts
Beauty and the Beast
Mar 17 Live-action remake "Beauty and the Beast" directed by Bill Condon and starring Emma Watson opens
- Mar 20 Indian rivers Yamuna and the Ganges declared "living entities" by court in the state of Uttarakhand
- Mar 21 Singer Wyclef Jean wrongly identified as a suspect, handcuffed and detained by LA county sheriff’s department
- Mar 22 Arctic records its lowest ever winter ice cover according to US National Snow and Ice Data Center, 5.5 million square miles
Westminster Bridge Defies a King and the Church
Mar 22 Terrorist attack on London's Westminster Bridge and Houses of Parliament kills 4 including a police officer and injures 40
- Mar 22 Tomb of Jesus reopens after restoration in Jerusalem
- Mar 24 US President Donald Trump and Republican party forced to pull their attempt to repeal Affordable Care Act ('Obamacare') after internal opposition
- Mar 25 Largest banana split ever, at 8,040 metres long, is made in Innisfail, Australia
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Mar 26 Anti-corruption protests in Russia result in hundreds arrested including opposition leader Alexei Navalny
- Mar 26 Carrie Lam is first woman elected to lead Hong Kong by Beijing-influenced electoral commission
- Mar 26 Mass protests in Chile over country's privatised pension system
- Mar 28 Britain introduces 1st new pound coin in 30 years with secret security feature inside to stop counterfeiting
- Mar 28 Cyclone Debbie strikes north east Queensland coast as a category 4 storm
- Mar 28 US confirms likely it is behind the air strike in Mosul, Iraq, that led to collapse of a building that killed more than 100 civilians
- Mar 28 US President Donald Trump signs Energy Independence executive order undoing Obama climate-control measures
- Mar 28 World's largest dinosaur footprint at 1.7 metres found in Kimberley, Western Australia
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Mar 29 Ivanka Trump (35) assumes an unpaid position as Senior Advisor to the President, Donald Trump (her father)
- Mar 29 Man's body found inside a 7m long reticulated python in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Treaty of Interest
Mar 29 UK Prime Minister Theresa May sends a letter to the EU invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, formally triggering Brexit
- Mar 30 Ex-South Korean president Park Geun-hye arrested in corruption investigation
- Mar 30 North Carolina repeals its controversial bathroom law that restricted transgender use
- Mar 30 Venezuela Supreme Court takes over legislative powers of the National Assembly, opposition calls it a coup
- Mar 31 Mudslides caused by heavy rains sweep through Mocoa, Colombia killing more than 200
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