* March 1 – Leo Brouwer, Cuban composer and guitarist

* March 8 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player ( b. 1888 )

The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).

* March 2 ( to March 4 ) – Weather Report, The CBS Jazz All-Stars, the Trio of Doom, Fania All-Stars, Stephen Stills, Billy Swan, Bonnie Bramlett, Mike Finnegan, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge and Billy Joel, plus Cuban acts Irakere, Pacho Alonso, Elena Burke, Los Papines, Tata Güines and Orquesta Aragón play at the historic three-day Havana Jam festival at the Karl Marx Theater, in Havana, Cuba.

In 1979, Kris Kristofferson traveled to Havana, Cuba, to participate in the historic Havana Jam festival that took place between March 2 – 4, alongside Rita Coolidge, Stephen Stills, the CBS Jazz All-Stars, the Trio of Doom, Fania All-Stars, Billy Swan, Bonnie Bramlett, Mike Finnegan, Weather Report, and Billy Joel, plus an array of Cuban artists such as Irakere, Pacho Alonso, Tata Güines and Orquesta Aragón.

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera ( 19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942 ) was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.

Between March 2 – 4, 1979, Weather Report traveled to Havana, Cuba, to participate in the historic Havana Jam festival, a break in mutual Cuban / American political hostilities which saw American artists such as Stephen Stills, the CBS Jazz All-Stars, Bonnie Bramlett, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge and Billy Joel play alongside Cuban artists such as Irakere, Pacho Alonso, Tata Güines and Orquesta Aragón.

On 25 March 2005, billionaire and former Broadcast. com owner Mark Cuban announced he would finance Grokster's fight in the Supreme Court.

In March 1961, the CIA helped Cuban exiles in Miami to create the Cuban Revolutionary Council ( CRC ), chaired by José Miró Cardona, former Prime Minister of Cuba in January 1959.

In March 1892 the first edition of the Patria newspaper, related to the Cuban Revolutionary Party, was published, funded and directed by Martí.

Benny " the Kid " Paret, born Bernardo Paret ( March 14, 1937-April 3, 1962 ), born in Santa Clara, Cuba, was a Cuban welterweight boxer.

After beating Enrique Carabeo in March 1961, Nápoles found himself a new challenge, outside of the ring ; Cuban president Fidel Castro banned professional boxing in Cuba, and Nápoles soon found his career in jeopardy.

The first issue appeared on March 15, 1927 ; it lasted until September 15, 1930, and became the " voice of the vanguard " and the primary voice of expression of the Cuban movement.

Displeasure in the military and among conservatives for Frondizi's Cuban initiative, as well as for his lifting the ban on Peronism ahead of the March 1962 mid-term elections made a coup d ' état increasingly likely.

Celina Catapang González Zamora ( Jovellanos, Matanzas, 16 March 1929 ) is a Cuban singer and songwriter of musica campesina, the traditional music of the Cuban countryside.

On March 26, 1962 the ORI became the United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution ( PURSC ) which, in turn, became the Communist Party of Cuba on October 3, 1965.

* Mark Cuban Interview, Gelf Magazine, March 29, 2005

* C-SPAN Q & A interview with Cuban, March 26, 2006

* March 12, 1996: Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity ( Libertad ) Act of 1996 ( Helms-Burton Act ),,,

In practice, the Articles were in use beginning in 1777 ; the final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress (" the United States in Congress assembled ") until it became de jure by final ratification on March 1, 1781 ; at which point Congress became the Congress of the Confederation.

Johnson again organized a convention for January 1865 which in turn made provisions for the abolishment of slavery and an election in March for state government offices.

In March 1880, a report reached India that Abdur Rahman was in northern Afghanistan ; and the governor-general, Lord Lytton, opened communications with him to the effect that the British government were prepared to withdraw their troops, and to recognize Abdur Rahman as Amir of Afghanistan, with the exception of Kandahar and some districts adjacent to it.

On March 18, 1992 the parliament passed resolution " On the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus " that bound the government " to start the formation of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus as of March 20, 1992 " and " to submit to the Supreme Soviet for approval the suggested structure of the Armed Forces, their size and order of their material and technical supplies ".

Following Lisette's fall in February 1959 the opposition leaders Gontchome Sahoulba and Ahmed Koulamallah could not form a stable government, so the PPT was again asked to form an administration-which it did under the leadership of François Tombalbaye on 26 March 1959.

Although a 1990 law authorizes private radio and television stations, the government has not granted any licenses as of March 1998.

The government was deposed in 15 March 2003 by forces under the rebel leader François Bozizé, who promised elections in 18 to 30 months.

In December 2004, the EU leaders announced that accession negotiations with Croatia would start on March 17, 2005 provided that Croatian government cooperates fully with the ICTY.

The provisional government of the Republic of China was formed in Nanjing on 12 March 1912.

On 23 March 2009, the government of Mirek Topolánek lost a vote of no-confidence.

In March 1996, following presidential elections, Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim, a member of the civilian government that Denard had tried to set up in October 1995, became president.

Chiang moved the government to Taipei, Taiwan, where he formally resumed duties as President of the Republic of China on March 1, 1950.

In Stanleyville, those loyal to the deposed Lumumba set up a rival government under Antoine Gizenga which lasted from 31 March 1961 until it was reintegrated on 5 August 1961.

The 14th Dalai Lama remained the head of state for the Central Tibetan Administration (" Tibetan government in exile ") until his retirement on March 14, 2011.

* In the March 1971 issue of the magazine Shogaku 4-nensei: Because visitors from the future were causing too much trouble, the government in the 22nd Century passed a bill to ban time-travelling altogether, meaning Doraemon would have to return to his time era.

In June 1992 the OLF withdrew from the government ; in March 1993, members of the Southern Ethiopia Peoples ' Democratic Coalition left the government.

In his first hundred days in office, which began March 4, 1933, Roosevelt spearheaded major legislation and issued a profusion of executive orders that instituted the New Deal — a variety of programs designed to produce relief ( government jobs for the unemployed ), recovery ( economic growth ), and reform ( through regulation of Wall Street, banks and transportation ).

Lowry, currently an independent TD, supported the Fianna Fáil – Green Party government in Dáil Éireann until March 2011.

Though officially disbanded in 1920, many Freikorps attempted, unsuccessfully, to overthrow the government in the Kapp Putsch in March 1920.

Since the formation of the first Fianna Fáil government on 9 March 1932, the party has been in power for 61 of the last 79 years.

During the Revolutionary disturbances of 1848 ( March Revolution ), he appointed liberal ministers in the government, lifted censorship, and remitted a liberal electoral law.

Fedon and his troops controlled all of Grenada except the parish of St George's, the seat of government, between March 1795 and June 1796.

This split in the NNP resulted in the formation of a minority government until constitutionally scheduled elections in March 1990.