UK Calendar Dates March 2007

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Commonwealth Day is marked annually on the second Monday in March, and aims to promote understanding on global issues, international co-operation and the work of the Commonwealth.

25 March 2007 is the 200th anniversary of Parliament's abolition of the slave trade in the former British Empire. Although the Abolotion of Slave Trade Act was passed in March 1807, making the capture and transportation of people for the purpose of slavery illegal, this did not stop the practice of slavery. A futher Act was passed in 1833 outlawing the practice outright. However, it was not until 1838, some 30 years later, that slaves actually gained their freedom and the practice was not outlawed in America until 1865 and in Brazil until 1888.
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March Facts, Folklore, Sayings and Anniversaries National Awareness Days			1 St Davids Day (Wales) World Book Day	2 Morocco's National Day	3 Full Moon Magha Puja (Buddhist) Bulgaria's National Day Alexandra Graham Bell was born on this day in 1847 Holi (Hindu)	4 Purim (Jewish) Jewish Spring Festival
5 Fair Trade Fortnight St Pirans Day	6 Ghana's National Day	7	8 Crufts dog show begins (Birmingham)	9 National Science and Engineering Week (until the 18th)	10	11
12 Last Quarter Mauritius' National Day National Science and Engineering Week Commonwealth Day	13	14 No Smoking Day	15 Ides of March Julius Caesar Assassinated, 44 B.C.	16 Comic Relief Red Nose Day	17 St Patrick's Day	18 Fourth Sunday in Lent Mothering Sunday First Walk in Space
19 New Moon	20 Mawlid an Nabi (Muslim)	21 Sun-Earth Day World Poetry Day World Forestry Day First Day of Spring - Spring equinox	22 World Day for Water	23 World Meteorological Day Pakistan's National Day	24	25 First Quarter British Summer time begins. Clocks move one hour forward. Greece's National Day 200th anniversary abolition of the slave trade
26	27 World Theatre Day Rama Navami (Hindu)	28	29	30	31 Eiffel Tower officially opened on this day in 1889.

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