March 2023: Events and Anniversaries Preview

Welcome to your akg-images March preview, full of content ideas for the coming months, with albums of supporting images.

Depending on where you live, March will bring either spring or autumn, and mathematicians everywhere can enjoy Pi Day.

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March 2023

1 March: Women's History Month UK

2 March: World Book Day

5 March: Joseph Stalin - 70th anniversary of his death

8 March: International Women's Day

8 March: Holi Festival

8 March: Walter Jens - 100th anniversary of his birth

12 March: Karl Hagemeister - 175th anniversary of his birth

14 March: Michael Caine - 90th birthday

14 March: Karl Marx - 140th anniversary of his death

16 March: Aubrey Beardsley - 125th anniversary of his death

17 March: St Patrick's Day

18 March: German revolutions of 1848-1849 - 175th anniversary

19 March: Mother's Day UK

22 March: World Water Day

22 March: Ramadan begins

22 March: George Benson - 80th birthday

22 March: Marcel Marceau - 100th anniversary of his birth

26 March: Sarah Bernhardt - 100th anniversary of her death

26 March: Daylight Savings begins, UK - clocks go forward one hour

30 March: Vincent Van Gogh - 170th anniversary of his birth


April 2023

1 April: April Fool's Day

3 April: The Marshall Plan is signed into law by President Truman- 75th anniversary

3 April: Washington Irving - 240th anniversary of his birth

5 April: Passover begins

7 April: Good Friday

7 April: James Garner - 95th anniversary of his birth

8 April: Pablo Picasso - 50th anniversary of his death

9 April: Easter Sunday

12 April: Ann Miller - 100th anniversary of her birth

18 April: Gustave Moreau - 125th anniversary of his death

19th April: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - 80th anniversary

21 April: Spanish-American War begins - 125th anniversary

22 April: Earth Day

23 April: St George's Day

25 April: ANZAC Day

26 April: Eugene Delacroix - 225th anniversary of his birth


May 2023

1 May: May Day/International Worker's Day

4 May: Star Wars Day

6 May: Coronation of King Charles III

6 May: Tony Blair - 70th birthday

7 May: Anne Baxter - 100th anniversary of her birth

9-13 May: Eurovision Song Contest

14 May: British Mandate of Palestine is terminated, creating the state of Israel - 75th anniversary

14 May: ​ Mother's Day - US, Australia, Canada and other countries

14 May: Skylab is launched into Earth orbit - 50th anniversary

16 May - Operation Chastise/Dam Buster Raid - 80th anniversary

19 May- Grace Jones - 75th birthday

22 May: Fritz von Uhde - 175th anniversary of his birth

25 May: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 220th anniversary of his birth

26-27 May: 24 Hours of Le Mans - 100th anniversary

27 May: Henry Kissinger - 100th anniversary of his birth

29 May: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summit Everest - 70th anniversary


June 2023

2 June: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II - 70th anniversary

6 June: Louis Lumière - 75th anniversary of his death

7 June: Paul Gauguin - 175th anniversary of his birth

16 June: Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space - 60 years

18 June: Father's Day UK

19 June: Blaise Pascal - 400th anniversary of his birth

19 June: Juneteenth USA

21 June: Summer Solstice

22 June: Windrush Day - 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush

22 June: Erich Maria Remarque - 125th anniversary of his birth

24 June: Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift - 75 years

25 June: Sam Francis - 100th anniversary of his birth

 

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