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'''[[March]] [[2008]]''' is the first month of the leap year and has yet to occur. It will begin on a Friday and will end after 29 days on a Friday.

==International holidays==

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* [[March 4]] - [[Purim]] ([[Judaism|Jewish]] holiday)

* [[March 10]] - [[Arba'een]] ([[Shi'a Islam]])

* [[March 12]] - [[Commonwealth Day]] ([[Commonwealth of Nations]])

* [[March 12]] - [[Arbor Day]] ([[China]])

* [[March 14]] - [[White Day]] ([[Japan]] and [[Korea]])

* [[March 14]] - [[New Year's Day]] ([[Sikh]] [[Nanakshahi calendar]])

* [[March 15]] - [[Revolutions of 1848 in Hungary|National Day]] ([[Hungary]])

* [[March 15]] - [[Hōnen Matsuri]] ([[Japan]])

* [[March 17]] - [[Saint Patrick's Day]]

* [[March 18]] - [[Mothering Sunday]] (Britain)

* [[March 19]] - [[Saint Joseph's Day]] ([[Western Christianity]])

* [[March 19]] - [[Fathers' Day]]

* [[March 19]] - [[Canberra Day]] ([[Australian Capital Territory]])

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* [[March 20]] - [[Norouz]] ([[Iran]] and [[Zoroastrianism]])

* [[March 21]] - [[Independence Day]] ([[Namibia]])

* [[March 21]] - [[World Poetry Day]]

* [[March 21]] - [[Earth Day|Equinoctial Earth Day]]

* [[March 22]] - [[World Day for Water]]

* [[March 23]] - [[Republic Day]] ([[Pakistan]])

* [[March 24]] - [[World Tuberculosis Day]]

* [[March 25]] - [[Freedom Day (Belarus)]]

* [[March 25]] - [[Annunciation|Feast of the Annunciation]] ([[Christianity]])

* [[March 28]] - [[Teachers' Day]] ([[Czech Republic]] and [[Slovakia]])

* [[March 30]] - [[Spiritual Baptist Shouter Liberation Day]] ([[Trinidad and Tobago]])

* [[March 31]] - [[César Chávez|César Chávez Day]] (some [[U.S. state]]s)

* [[March 31]] - [[Freedom Day (Malta)]]

* [[March 31]] - [[Mawlid]] ([[Sunni Islam]])

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==Scheduled events==

* [[March 2]] - [[Russian presidential election, 2008|2008 Russian presidential election]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/12/14/presedentialelection.shtml | title = Russia’s Presidential Election Set for March, 2008 | year = December 14, 2006 | publisher = mosnews.com}}</ref>

* [[March 9]] and [[March 16]] - Municipal election in [[France]]. ([http://www.service-public.fr/actualites/00645.html official announcement in French])

* [[March 9]] - Tentative date for the [[Spanish general election, 2008|Spanish general election]].

* [[March 16]] - The [[2008 Formula One Season|2008 Formula 1 World Championship]] begins in [[Melbourne, Australia]]

* [[March 30]] - [[Wrestlemania XXIV]] will be held at the [[Citrus Bowl]] in [[Orlando, Florida]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/archive/wrestlemania24venue | title = Wrestlemania XXIV set for March 30, 2008 | publisher = WWE.com}}</ref>

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