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This article covers daily news and events in March 2020 . An overview of articles on thematic "long-running hits" and on longer-lasting events can be found on the page on current events .

Daily events

Sunday 1st March 2020

• Leipzig / Germany : The current mayor Burkhard Jung ( SPD ) wins the mayoral election .
• Warsaw / Poland : The EU authority Frontex is sending further officials to the border between Greece and Turkey to prevent asylum seekers from entering the EU .
• Germany : The Skilled Workers Immigration Act comes into force.
• Germany : Compulsory vaccination against measles for children and staff in community or health facilities comes into force.

Monday 2nd March 2020

• Jerusalem / Israel : general election
• Vatican City : The Vatican turns its previously blocked files into the pontificate of Pope Pius XII. accessible to selected historians for the period during World War II, including the Vatican Apostolic Archives and the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Curial Authorities.

Tuesday 3rd March 2020

• Hamburg / Germany : This year's Michelin stars are announced.
• United States : Super Tuesday
• Washington, DC / United States : Due to the coronavirus epidemic, the US Federal Reserve is lowering key interest rates by 50 basis points to a target range between 1.0 and 1.25 percent with effect from March 4, the primary credit rate will be reduced from 2, 25 percent reduced to 1.75 percent.
• Chicago / United States : The Irish architecture firm Grafton Architects , founded and managed by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara , has been awarded this year's Pritzker Prize , the highest award for architecture.
• Marl / Germany : The Grimme Institute announces the winners of the Grimme Prize 2020 .
• Berlin / Germany : The board of the Association of the Automotive Industry decides not to hold the International Motor Show 2021 in Frankfurt am Main, as before, but for the first time in Munich.

Wednesday 4th March 2020

• Erfurt / Germany : In the election of the Prime Minister of Thuringia , Bodo Ramelow is elected in the third ballot.
• Exeter / United Kingdom : The airline Flybe ceases operations.
• Hanau / Germany : Central act of mourning for the victims of the attack in Hanau .
• Kiev / Ukraine : Parliament accepts Prime Minister Oleksij Hontscharuk's resignation and appoints the current deputy Denys Schmyhal as the new incumbent.

Thursday 5th March 2020

• Bonn / Germany : The Catholic Church would like to compensate victims of abuse cases with € 50,000 in compensation.
• Hamburg / Germany : under the motto "Land creates connection", 1000 farmers demonstrated for safe production and fairer prices.

Friday March 6, 2020

• Berlin / Germany : The Robert Koch Institute declares South Tyrol to be a crisis area for the coronavirus epidemic .
• Düsseldorf / Germany : Due to supply bottlenecks, the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia lifted the driving ban for trucks with long-life food and hygiene items until May 30th.
• Tunis / Tunisia : Two suicide bombers blow themselves up in front of the US embassy.

Saturday 7th March 2020

Sunday 8th March 2020

Monday March 9, 2020

• Dublin / Ireland : The St. Patrick's Day parades on March 17th have been canceled nationwide.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : Head of State Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah are both sworn in as Afghan President in separate ceremonies .
• Munich / Germany : In order to limit the coronavirus epidemic , Bavaria prohibits events with over 1000 participants.
• Rome / Italy : Italy bans all public events nationwide, imposes a curfew and closes all shops with the exception of grocery stores, pharmacies and banks.

Tuesday March 10, 2020

• Neuss / Germany : The current season of the German Ice Hockey League will be declared prematurely ended before the start of the playoffs, a championship title will not be awarded.
• Parchal / Portugal : Early end of the Algarve Cup .

Wednesday March 11, 2020

• Baghdad / Iraq : 3 soldiers were killed and 12 wounded in an attack on the Taji military base of the anti-IS coalition . Eighteen Katyusha missiles struck in the attack .
• Geneva / Switzerland : The WHO classifies the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus as a pandemic .
• The Premier League table leader Liverpool FC and the Spanish football club Atlético Madrid play in Liverpool in front of 52,000 spectators - of which 3,000 from Madrid, which is already a coronavirus hotspot .

Thursday March 12, 2020

• Abu Kamal / Syria : 26 fighters from a militia loyal to Iran die in an air strike by the anti-IS coalition .
• Berlin / Germany : The current season of the German Volleyball Bundesliga for women and men will be declared over before the last match days of the main round. The playoffs and the award of a championship title will not be held.
• Berlin / Germany : Kramp-Karrenbauer is postponing the CDU special party conference planned for April 25 to elect the new chairman due to the current COVID-19 pandemic .
• Cologne / Germany : The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution declares the völkisch-national “wing” of the AfD to be under observation.

Friday March 13th 2020

• Berlin / Germany : All schools, daycare centers and day care centers in Berlin are closed until further notice.
• Bremen / Germany : All schools, daycare centers and day care centers in Bremen are closed until further notice.
• Düsseldorf / Germany : All schools, daycare centers and day care centers in North Rhine-Westphalia are closed up to and including the Easter holidays.
• Erfurt / Germany : All schools, daycare centers and day care centers in Thuringia are closed up to and including the Easter holidays.
• Hamburg / Germany : All schools, daycare centers and day care centers in Hamburg are closed until the end of March.
• Hanover / Germany : All schools, daycare centers and day care centers in Lower Saxony are closed up to and including the Easter holidays.
• Kiel / Germany : All schools, daycare centers and day care centers in Schleswig-Holstein are closed up to and including the Easter holidays.
• Mainz / Germany : All schools, daycare centers and day care centers in Rhineland-Palatinate are closed until and including the Easter holidays.
• Munich / Germany : Prime Minister Markus Söder announces in a press conference the closure of all schools, daycare centers and day care centers in Bavaria until April 20th. Furthermore, the right to visit hospitals, nursing homes and similar facilities is severely restricted. These measures are necessary to contain the coronavirus pandemic .
• Saarbrücken / Germany : All schools, daycare centers and day care centers in Saarland are closed up to and including the Easter holidays.
• Stuttgart / Germany : All schools, daycare centers and day care centers in Baden-Württemberg are closed up to and including the Easter holidays.
• Wiesbaden / Germany : All schools, daycare centers and day care centers in Hesse are closed up to and including the Easter holidays.

Saturday March 14, 2020

• Madrid / Spain : The Spanish government calls throughout the country because of the COVID-19 pandemic the state of emergency from.
• Paris / France : The French government is closing restaurants, bars and shops across the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Pharmacies, grocery stores or banks will remain open.

Sunday 15th March 2020

• Munich / Germany : Local elections in Bavaria
• Melbourne / Australia : This year's Formula 1 World Championship should have started with the Australian Grand Prix .
• Berlin / Germany : Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the German government is controlling the borders with Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria for passenger traffic. Goods and work-related commuter traffic are excluded.
• Vienna / Austria : COVID-19 pandemic in Austria - Parliament decides on a general exit restriction , the ban on assemblies, the closure of a large number of commercial and service businesses. The restrictions will come into force the next day, the catering will not be closed until Tuesday, March 17, 2020.

Monday March 16, 2020

• The Hague / Netherlands : In order to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions, the maximum speed on the motorways in the Netherlands will be reduced from 130 km / h to 100 km / h between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.
• Bern / Switzerland : The Federal Council has declared the “extraordinary situation” in accordance with the Epidemics Act from midnight until April 19, 2020 for the time being. So must u. a. all restaurants, bars as well as entertainment and leisure facilities remain closed (→ COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland ).
• Munich / Germany : Prime Minister Markus Söder calls in Bavaria the state of emergency from.
• Kourou / French Guiana : The European spaceport is interrupted due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tuesday 17th March 2020

• Brussels / Belgium : The heads of state and government of the European Union have decided on a 30-day entry ban for non-EU citizens.

Wednesday March 18, 2020

• Geneva / Switzerland : The 65th Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), which was supposed to take place in Rotterdam on May 16, 2020 , was canceled by the European Broadcasting Union . Talks about an ESC 2021 in Rotterdam are ongoing.
• Mitterteich / Germany : As the first municipality in Bavaria , curfews are imposed here.
• Munich / Germany : The start of the A bitur exams in Bavaria has been postponed from April 30 to May 20.
• Tübingen / Germany : According to the co-owners Dietmar Hopp and Friedrich von Bohlen and Halbach, the Swabian biopharmaceutical company CureVac AG can possibly deliver a vaccine against the new respiratory disease COVID-19 in autumn 2020 and thus actively fight the COVID-19 pandemic .
• Brussels / Belgium : The government in Belgium is imposing a curfew nationwide.

Thursday 19th March 2020

• Berlin / Germany : With those unified German nations and tribes for the first time one of the reichsbürgerbewegung prohibited attributed grouping.
• District of Wunsiedel / Germany : curfews are imposed in two communities in the district of Bavaria .

Friday 20th March 2020

• Munich / Germany : Prime Minister Markus Söder imposes exit restrictions in the Free State of Bavaria .
• California : The US state of California has imposed a general curfew in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic , which will apply from the night of March 20, 2020 (local time). Governor Gavin Newsom expects over 25 million corona infections in California.
• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in Berlin announces a pension adjustment from July 1, 2020. This will increase pensions in western Germany by 3.45 percent and in eastern Germany by 4.20 percent. The pension increase in the summer of 2020 for around 21 million pensioners is accompanied by additional income tax revenues in the three-digit million range for the state.
• Berlin / Germany : The Baden-Württemberg state parliament member Wolfgang Gedeon is excluded from the AfD .

Saturday March 21, 2020

Sunday March 22nd 2020

• Conakry / Guinea : Parliamentary election and referendum in Guinea

Monday 23 March 2020

• Bern / Switzerland : The Federal Office of Culture announces the winners of the Swiss Film Award 2020 . The films Le milieu de l'horizon and Forever and Eternal were each awarded two prizes.
• Zagreb / Croatia : In the region of the capital there were two earthquakes of magnitude 5, in which, among other things, the cathedral of Zagreb was severely damaged.

Tuesday March 24, 2020

Wednesday March 25, 2020

• Pristina / Kosovo : The Kosovar government coalition breaks in the dispute over the strategy against the COVID-19 pandemic on a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Albin Kurti .

Thursday March 26, 2020

• Brussels / Belgium : The ambassadors of the EU member states agree on a mandate for a new military mission in the Mediterranean to implement the UN sanctions against Libya. The operation Irini as a successor to the operation Sophia begins on April 1, 2020th

Friday March 27, 2020

Fifth eastward expansion of NATO - North Macedonia

• Washington, DC / United States : North Macedonia joins NATO as its 30th member .
• Paris / France : Eleven European countries set up the Takuba Taskforce to fight terrorism in Mali and the Sahel .
• Vatican City / State of Vatican City : The Pope speaks his blessing Urbi et Orbi for the first time in front of empty St. Peter's Square .
• Hanover / Germany : The largest European travel group TUI announces that the German government has approved a bridging loan from the state development bank KfW in the amount of 1.8 billion euros to cushion the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic .

Saturday 28th March 2020

• Berlin-Gatow / Germany : The German Air Force flies people seriously ill with Covid-19 from Italy .
• Wiesbaden / Germany : The Federal Criminal Police Office publishes its final report on the attack in Hanau .
• International : Earth Hour from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Sunday March 29, 2020

• Cologne / Germany : The 1758th and last episode of the television series Lindenstrasse is broadcast for the first time.
• Bamako / Mali : parliamentary elections, 1st ballot

Monday March 30, 2020

• Budapest / Hungary : The parliament passes an emergency law against the votes of the opposition, according to which the government is empowered to issue decrees and to suspend fundamental rights and laws. Elections and referendums should not take place. An end date is not provided; the parliament can decide on the lifting of the measures, but since the law provides for the means of the "forced parliamentary break", the government can effectively prevent the assembly of the parliament, so that the Hungarian government has the possibility to indefinitely without the participation of the parliament to govern by decrees. Critics see a parallel to the Enabling Act of March 24, 1933 of the NSDAP in the German Reich .
• Laren / Netherlands : From the museum Singer Laren is Vincent van Gogh's oil painting The parish garden of Nuenen in spring stolen.

Tuesday March 31, 2020

• Berkeley / United States : The SETI @ home project operated by the University of California is discontinued.

See also

• Nekrolog March 2020 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in March
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in March

Web links

Commons : March 2020  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mayor election Leipzig: Burkhard Jung wins wafer-thin before Sebastian Gemkow. Retrieved March 1, 2020 . 
2. ↑ WORLD: Turkey: EU authority Frontex sends reinforcements to the Greek border . In: THE WORLD . March 1, 2020 ( welt.de [accessed March 1, 2020]).
3. ↑ https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20200303a1.htm
4. ↑ https://www.finanzen.net/amp/geldpolitik-gelockert-corona-effekt-fed-senkt-ueberraschend-leitzins-8583808
5. ^ Thuringia: Ramelow elected in the third ballot . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 4, 2020]).
6. ↑ https://www.ukrinform.de/rubric-polytics/2889803-denys-schmygal-zum-neuen-premierminister-ernannt.html
7. ↑ tagesschau.de: Victims of abuse: Bishops agree on compensation for pain and suffering. Retrieved March 5, 2020 . 
8. ^ NDR: tractor demo and rally in Hamburg. Retrieved March 5, 2020 . 
9. ↑ RKI - Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 - COVID-19 (Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2): Risk areas. Retrieved March 6, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Marcel Jarjour, Merlin Bartel, Sabine Dwertmann, Clemens Boisserée, Claudia Hauser, Vera Kämper, Marlen Keß, Ludwig Krause, Uwe Felten, Henning Bulka, Tim Kronner, Annika Lamm, Christina Pulido Lopez: Live blog on the coronavirus: All NRW school trips in Risk areas are canceled. Retrieved March 6, 2020 . 
11. ↑ n-tv NEWS: Bomb attack on US embassy in Tunis. Retrieved March 6, 2020 . 
12. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Political crisis in Afghanistan: Ashraf Ghani sworn in as President - DER SPIEGEL - Politics. Retrieved March 9, 2020 . 
13. ↑ n-tv NEWS: +++ 21:49 Italy extends blocking measures to the whole country +++. Retrieved March 9, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Syria conflict: 26 dead in air raid on militias . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 12, 2020]).
15. ↑ Coronavirus: COVID-19 Is Now Officially A Pandemic, WHO Says. Retrieved March 11, 2020 . 
16. ↑ FAZ.net April 21, 2020: "The Liverpool game was a mistake"
17. ↑ Syria conflict: 26 dead in air raid on militias . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 12, 2020]).
18. ↑ Volleyball Bundesliga ends season prematurely. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. Augsburger Allgemeine , March 12, 2020, accessed on March 12, 2020 . 
19. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Coronavirus: CDU postpones party conference. Retrieved March 12, 2020 . 
20. ↑ Severin Weiland, DER SPIEGEL: AfD “wing” now officially right-wing extremist: Strike against the far right - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Retrieved March 12, 2020 . 
21. ↑ Christian Hümmeler: Coronavirus in NRW: Laschet explains: Operation at all schools and daycare centers will be suspended from Monday. March 13, 2020, accessed on March 13, 2020 (German). 
22. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Coronavirus: Federal states are closing schools and daycare centers. Retrieved March 13, 2020 . 
23. ↑ NDR: Coronavirus in SH: Measures from around 6.30 p.m. in the live stream. Retrieved March 13, 2020 . 
24. ↑ Press conference with Prime Minister Söder: Schools and daycare centers in Bavaria are closed. Retrieved March 13, 2020 (German). 
25. ↑ Coronavirus: Eighth death in Germany, more than 3,300 infected. Retrieved March 13, 2020 . 
26. ↑ General-Anzeiger: Government in Madrid declares a state of emergency due to coronavirus crisis , March 14, 2020
27. ↑ Stern.de: France closes restaurants and shops , accessed on March 15, 2020
28. ↑ Welt.de: Coronavirus, Germany will control several borders from Monday , accessed on March 14, 2020
29. ↑ Government drastically restricts exit. In: orf.at. March 15, 2020, accessed March 15, 2020 . 
30. ↑ COVID-19: Guiana Space Center suspends launch campaigns . Arianespace, March 16, 2020.
31. ↑ Sueddeutsche.de: Mega traffic jams at the borders , March 18, 2020
32. ↑ Tagesschau: Eurovision Song Contest canceled , March 18, 2020
33. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Söder announces further curfews in Bavaria - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Retrieved March 19, 2020 . 
34. ↑ Bavarian Ministry of Culture : #Abitur: The Bavarian Ministry of Culture has decided to postpone the start of the exams for the #Gymnasium from April 30th to May 20th, 2020. This ensures fair conditions. Https://km.bayern.de/allgemein/meldung/6909/abiturpruefungen- haben-verschoben.html ... In: @KM_Bayern. March 18, 2020, accessed March 18, 2020 . 
35. ↑ FAZ: Hopp gives hope to the corona vaccine in autumn , March 18, 2020
36. ↑ Wort.lu.de: 19 days curfew: Belgians have to stay at home , March 2020
37. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Söder announces further curfews in Bavaria - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Retrieved March 19, 2020 . 
38. ^ "Stay at home" - California imposes curfew , FAZ from March 20, 2020
39. ↑ The pensions are rising noticeably , FAZ from March 20, 2020
40. ↑ Georges Wyrsch: Swiss Film Award 2020: “Le milieu de l'horizon” is the best Swiss film of the year. In: Srf.ch . March 23, 2020, accessed March 23, 2020 . 
41. ↑ Swiss Film Prize 2020: two prizes each for “Le milieu de l'horizon” and “Forever and ever”. In: Federal Office of Culture . March 23, 2020, accessed March 23, 2020 . 
42. ↑ Two severe earthquakes in Croatia: Numerous injuries and damage in Zagreb. Retrieved March 24, 2020 . 
43. ^ North Macedonia joins NATO as 30th Ally
44. ↑ https://www.defense.gouv.fr/actualites/articles/task-force-takuba-declaration-politique-des-gouvernements-allemand-belge- Britique-danois-estonien-francais-malien-neerlandais-nigerien- norvegien -portugais-suedois-et-tcheque
45. ↑ https://www.dw.com/de/neue-european-taskforce-für-anti-terror-kampf-in-mali/a-52946842
46. ↑ http://club.bruxelles2.eu/2020/03/la-task-force-takuba-est-creee-une-declaration-signee-a-onze-quelques-uns-sengagent-plus/
47. ↑ tagesschau.de: Corona crisis: Special Pope blessing in difficult times. Retrieved March 28, 2020 . 
48. ↑ https://www.tuigroup.com/de-de/medien/presseinformationen/ag-mektiven/2020/2020-03-27-tui-ag-deutsche-bundesregierung-genehmigt-kfw-ueberbrueckungskredit
49. ↑ WORLD: Several flights: Air Force brings corona patients from Italy to Germany . In: THE WORLD . March 28, 2020 ( welt.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).
50. ^ Georg Mascolo, Florian Flade: Attack in Hanau: BKA publishes final report. Retrieved March 28, 2020 . 
51. ↑ Stefan Trinks: Van Gogh's spring awakening is canceled. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .