Event of Interest
Mar 1 Forbes Richest List released, Bill Gates No. 1 with $75 billion, number of world's billionaires shrinks to 1,810
Bill Gates
Election of Interest
Mar 1 US primary elections: Super Tuesday - both Republican Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton win seven state races each
Hillary Clinton
Donald Trump
- Mar 1 South Korean opposition MPs set a world record for longest filibuster - 9 days (192 hours) trying to block anti-terror bill
- Mar 2 Longest non-stop scheduled commercial flight by distance, Emirates A380 flies 14,200km (8,824 miles) Dubai to Auckland in 17 hours, 15 minutes
- Mar 2 Oldest known land fossil (Tortotubus - 440 million years old) from Gotland, Sweden, revealed by British scientists
Event of Interest
Mar 2 US astronauts Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to earth after nearly a year (340 days), setting an ISS record
Scott Kelly
Election of Interest
Mar 5 US primary elections: Super Saturday - Republican Donald Trump and Ted Cruz win 2 states, Democratics Bernie Sanders wins 2, Hillary Clinton one
Bernie Sanders
Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton
Event of Interest
Mar 7 Peyton Manning announces his retirement from the Denver Broncos and the NFL
Peyton Manning
Event of Interest
Mar 7 Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova reveals failed drug test for meldonium at Australian Open in January, subsequently suspended for 15 months
Maria Sharapova
Event of Interest
Mar 8 Turner Classic Movies show several of Claire Trevor’s films to honor the 106th anniversary of her birth
Claire Trevor
- Mar 9 Eighth Democratic presidential candidates debate hosted by Univision and the Washington Post and held in Miami, Florida
- Mar 9 EU Migrant Crisis: Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia close their borders to migrants trying to reach Northern Europe
- Mar 10 Twelfth Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by CNN, held in Coral Gables, Florida
- Mar 13 Suicide Bombing in Ankara, Turkey kills 37 people
Vladimir Putin
- Mar 14 Marco Rubio announces he is dropping out of the Republican presidential nomination race
- Mar 14 NASA releases data showing February 2016 warmest month ever recorded globally - 1.35C above the long-term average
- Mar 15 Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence wins Go challenge against Lee Se-dol 4-1
Event of Interest
Mar 16 US President Barack Obama nominates Merrick Garland as Supreme Court Justice
Barack Obama
- Mar 16 US college student Otto Warmbier is sentenced to 15 years hard labour for trying to steal a political poster, in Pyongyang, North Korea
- Mar 17 Brazilian federal judge blocks swearing-in of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Chief of Staff to President Dilma Rousseff, as part of "Car Wash" controversy
- Mar 17 Archaeologists announce discovery of iron age warrior king buriel ground with 75 graves 2,500 years old in Pocklington, Northern England
Event of Interest
Mar 19 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, directed by Zack Synder and starring Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill, first premieres in Mexico City
Ben Affleck
- Mar 19 England beats France 31-21 at Stade de France, Paris to claim Six Nations Rugby Championship; secure their first Grand Slam since 2003; Owen Farrell with 7 goals, England's 2nd-highest points scorer behind Jonny Wilkinson
- Mar 20 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 2 day tour
- Mar 22 Suicide bombings at Brussel's Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station, leave around 28 victims dead and 260 injured, ISIS claim responsibility
Event of Interest
Mar 23 GPR investigation of Shakespeare's tomb at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford concludes the Bard's skull probably has been stolen
William Shakespeare
- Mar 24 Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić found guilty of genocide during 1995 Srebrenica massacre, sentenced to 40 years
- Mar 24 English footballer Adam Johnson sentenced to 6 years in prison for sexual activity with a schoolgirl
- Mar 25 Suicide attack during a football match in Iskandariya, Iraq kills at least 32 people, ISIS claim responsibility
Album Release
Mar 25 Zayn's [Zayn Malik] solo debut album "Mind of Mine" is released, 1st British male artist to debut at No. 1 in US
Zayn Malik
- Mar 26 US primary elections: Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders wins Washington, Hawaii and Alaska
- Mar 27 Suicide bomb kills more than 70 people at a park in Lahore, Pakistan, Taliban connected Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claim responsibility