Portal:Religion/On this day/March 1

• 1457 - The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 2

• 1939 - Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 3

• 1431 - Eugene IV becomes Pope.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 4

• 1215 - King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.
• 1833 - Ayya Vaikundar incarnated from the Sea of Tiruchendur as per the Akilattirattu Ammanai, the scripture of Ayyavazhi.
• 2007 - Purim.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 5

• 2001 - In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 6

• 1447 - Nicholas V becomes Pope.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 7

• 308 - Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr, dies.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 8

• 1948 - The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 9

• 1977 - Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 10

• 1948 - The Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old Muslim League.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 11

• 1513 - Leo X is elected Pope.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 12

• 1685 - George Berkeley, Irish theologian born. (d. 1753)

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 13

• 483 - St. Felix becomes Pope.
• 874 - The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Apostles, Constantinople.
• 1138 - Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
• 1639 - Harvard College was named for clergyman John Harvard.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 14

• 1492 - Queen Isabella of Castille orders her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
• 1590 - Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 15

• 1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 16

• 1190 - Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 17

• 624 - A key victory by Muhammad over his Meccan adversaries in the Battle of Badr.
• 2007 - Saint Patrick's Day.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 18

• 3952 BC - According to the Venerable Bede, the world was created.
• 731 - Saint Gregory III begins his reign as a Catholic pope.
• 1229 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 19

• 2006 - Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace convened in Seville, Spain.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 20

• 1477 - Jerome Emser, German theologian, born. (d. 1527)

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 21

• 1556 - In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 22

• 1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 23

• 625 - Battle of Uhud takes place between Muslims and Pagans in Arabia.
• 752 - Stephen is elected Pope. He died three days later, before being ordained bishop, and is not considered a legitimate pope.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 24

• 1832 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 25

• 708 - Constantine is consecrated Pope.
• 1300 - Dante descends to the Inferno in The Divine Comedy.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 26

• 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 27

• 2002 - Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 28

• 1725 - Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman and biographer, born. (d. 1795)

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 29

• 537 - Vigilius is consecrated and enthroned as Pope, replacing Silverius.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 30

• 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra decree aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
• 1533 - Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.

Portal:Religion/On this day/March 31

• 1717 - A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.
• 2007 - Jainism: Mahavir Jayanti, celebrates of the birth of Mahavira, the last Tirthankara.