I often wonder what significant anniversaries are due at some point in the future as some of them might be of interest as triggers for blog posts or visits somewhere. However, it is often difficult to find out quickly what events have significant anniversaries - hence this section on the website.
By "significant anniversaries", I mean dates that are not, for example, the 73rd anniversary of something, but the 50th, 100th, 200th etc.
It should help to flag up interesting events.
Significant anniversaries during March 2016
| Anniversary | Details |
| 1st | Order of succession to the British throne changed to absolute primogeniture. (26th Mar 2015) |
| 1st | UK inflation fell to zero percent in February, the lowest level since records began, according to official figures. (24th Mar 2015) |
| 1st | The government announces the first NHS patients to be diagnosed through genome sequencing. (11th Mar 2015) |
| 1st | TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson is suspended from Top Gear, one of the BBC's most popular and profitable shows, after a "fracas" with a producer. The remainder of the series will be scrapped, the BBC says. (10th Mar 2015) |
| 1st | Thendara Satisfaction, an Irish setter who competed at this year's Crufts, dies after being supposedly poisoned at the Birmingham show. Organisers of the event say sabotage will not be tolerated, after rumours that various other dogs were also poisoned this year. (9th Mar 2015) |
| 1st | The stepbrother of sixteen-year-old Becky Watts, a schoolgirl reported missing two weeks previously, is charged with her murder after body parts are found at a house in Barton Hill, Bristol. (4th Mar 2015) |
| 1st | Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris is stripped of his British honours. (3rd Mar 2015) |
| 5th | HMS Caroline (1914) was decommissioned in Belfast. (31st Mar 2011) |
| 5th | Operation Unified Protector: British, French and American military initiated air strikes in Libya following United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973. (19th Mar 2011) |
| 5th | Light aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (1981), flagship of the Royal Navy, was decommissioned, as part of the naval restructuring portion of the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review. (11th Mar 2011) |
| 10th | Royal Regiment of Scotland created. (28th Mar 2006) |
| 10th | 2005-2006 Christian Peacemaker hostage crisis: British peacemaker, Norman Kember, and three Canadians rescued by SAS troops. (23rd Mar 2006) |
| 10th | Six men taking part in a clinical trial for a new anti-inflammatory drug TGN1412 are placed in intensive care, some in a life-threatening condition, after suffering adverse side-effects. (13th Mar 2006) |
| 10th | The President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, makes a state visit to the UK. (7th Mar 2006) |
| 10th | The Senedd, debating chamber of the National Assembly for Wales on Cardiff Bay, designed by Richard Rogers is opened by the Queen. (1st Mar 2006) |
| 40th | Queen Elizabeth II sends the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. (26th Mar 1976) |
| 40th | British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons. (16th Mar 1976) |
| 40th | The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament. (4th Mar 1976) |
| 70th | Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, 33 killed and hundreds injured (9th Mar 1946) |
| 70th | Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri. (5th Mar 1946) |
| 70th | The Bank of England is nationalised. (1st Mar 1946) |
| 250th | The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act. (18th Mar 1766) |
| 400th | Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment. (20th Mar 1616) |
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