Portal:Current events/March 2021/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Business

• COVID-19 recession

Disasters

• COVID-19 pandemic
• 2020–21 Australian region cyclone season
• 2020–21 European windstorm season
• 2020–21 H5N8 outbreak
• 2021 Pacific typhoon season
• 2020–21 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season
• Yemeni famine

Politics

• Afghan peace process
• Armenian protests
• Belarusian protests
• Bulgarian protests
• East Mediterranean crisis
• Greek protests
• Indian farmers' protests
• Indonesia omnibus law protests
• Libyan peace process
• Myanmar protests
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Russian protests
• Second Arab Spring
• Sudanese protests
• Tigrayan peace process
• Thai protests
• United States racial unrest
• Venezuelan presidential crisis
• Yellow vests movement

Elections and referendums

Recent

• March
  • 17: Netherlands, House of Representatives
  • 19: Curaçao, Estates
  • 21: Republic of Congo, President
  • 23: Israel, Knesset
  • 28: Turkmenistan, Assembly

Upcoming

• April
  • 4: Bulgaria, National Assembly
  • 6: Greenland, Inatsisartut
  • 9: Djibouti, President (1st)
  • 9: Samoa, Legislative Assembly
  • 11: Benin, President (1st)
  • 11: Chad, President
  • 11: Chile, Constitutional convention
  • 11: Ecuador, President (2nd)
  • 11: Kyrgyzstan, Constitutional referendum
  • 11: Peru, President (1st), Congress
  • 14: Cayman Islands, Parliament

Trials

Recently concluded

• France: Nicolas Sarkozy
• Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum
• Kuwait: Mohammad Shahid Islam
• Switzerland: Beny Steinmetz
• United States: Impeachment of Donald Trump

Ongoing

• Argentina: Rodolfo Martín Villa
• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Colombia: Álvaro Uribe
• India: Disha Ravi
• Indonesia: Muhammad Rizieq Shihab
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• South Africa: Jacob Zuma
• Spain: 2017 Barcelona attacks, Bárcenas affair, Barçagate
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• United States: Derek Chauvin
• International: The Gambia v. Myanmar

Upcoming

• Canada: Raj Grewal
• Indonesia: Edhy Prabowo, Juliari Batubara, Nurdin Abdullah
• Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli
• Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
• Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina
• United Kingdom: Apsana Begum
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell
• Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

Sport

• Association football
  • 2020–21 Premier League
  • 2020–21 La Liga
  • 2020–21 Serie A
  • 2020–21 Bundesliga
  • 2020–21 UEFA Champions League knockout phase
  • 2020–21 UEFA Europa League knockout phase
  • 2021 Copa Libertadores qualifying stages
  • 2020–21 UEFA Nations League
• Women's association football
  • 2020–21 Champions League
  • 2020–21 Division 1 Féminine
  • 2020–21 FA WSL
  • 2020 Copa Libertadores Femenina
• American football
  • 2021 Spring NCAA Division I FCS
• Baseball
  • 2021 MLB season
• Basketball
  • 2020–21 NBA season
  • 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
  • 2020–21 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
• Cricket
  • ICC World Test Championship 2019–21
  • ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Super League 2020–2023
  • 2019–2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2
  • ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Challenge League 2019–2022
• Golf
  • 2020–21 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2020–21 KHL season
  • 2020–21 NHL season
• Rugby union
  • 2020–21 Premiership Rugby
  • 2020–21 Pro14
  • 2019–20 Top 14
• Other sports seasons
  • 2020–21 international cricket season
  • 2020–21 snooker season
  • 2020–21 curling season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

March

• 30: G. Gordon Liddy
• 29: Bashkim Fino
• 29: Sarah Onyango Obama
• 28: Joseph Edward Duncan
• 28: Liu Kai-chi
• 28: Didier Ratsiraka
• 27: Petr Kellner
• 26: Haseena Moin
• 25: Bill Brock
• 25: Beverly Cleary
• 25: Larry McMurtry
• 25: Uta Ranke-Heinemann
• 25: Bertrand Tavernier
• 24: Jessica Walter
• 24: Mahmoud al-Werfalli
• 24: Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum
• 23: Ethel Gabriel
• 23: Don Heffington
• 23: Hana Hegerová
• 23: George Segal
• 22: Elgin Baylor
• 22: Guy Brice Parfait Kolélas
• 22: Peng Shilu
• 21: Nawal El Saadawi
• 20: José Baselga
• 20: Peter Lorimer
• 20: Richard Mendani
• 19: Glynn Lunney
• 19: Barry Orton
• 19: Elsa Peretti
• 18: Richard Gilliland
• 18: Paul Jackson
• 18: Picanyol
• 17: Antón García Abril
• 17: John Magufuli
• 16: Moudud Ahmed
• 16: Sabine Schmitz
• 15: Stephen Bechtel Jr.
• 15: Dragoljub Đuričić
• 15: Yaphet Kotto
• 15: Doug Parkinson
• 15: Ian Waddell
• 14: Henry Darrow
• 14: Frankie de la Cruz
• 14: Laxman Pai
• 13: Marvelous Marvin Hagler
• 13: Murray Walker
• 12: Ronald DeFeo Jr.
• 12: Goodwill Zwelithini
• 11: Norman J. Warren
• 10: Hamed Bakayoko
• 10: Ali Mahdi Muhammad
• 10: Manuel Saturnino da Costa
• 9: James Levine
• 9: Erling Lorentzen
• 9: Roger Mudd
• 9: Cliff Simon
• 9: Isela Vega
• 8: Rhéal Cormier
• 8: Leon Gast
• 8: Norton Juster
• 8: Kind
• 8: Trevor Peacock
• 7: Dmitri Bashkirov
• 7: Khin Maung Latt
• 7: Carl J. Shapiro
• 6: Joaquin Bernas
• 6: Lou Ottens
• 6: Nikki van der Zyl
• 6: Carla Wallenda
• 5: David Bailie
• 5: Patrick Dupond
• 5: Frank J. Kelley
• 5: Michael Stanley
• 4: Jim Crockett Jr.
• 4: Walter Gretzky
• 4: Tony Hendra
• 4: Bhaskar Menon
• 4: Mark Pavelich
• 4: David Schindler
• 3: Joe Altobelli
• 3: Nicola Pagett
• 2: Chris Barber
• 2: Àlex Casademunt
• 2: Bunny Wailer

Ongoing conflicts

Africa

• Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
  • Maghreb insurgency
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency
• Central African Republic
  • Civil War
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Ethiopia
  • Tigray War (spillover)
• Ethiopia and Sudan
  • Sudanese–Ethiopian clashes
• Ghana
  • Western Togoland Rebellion
• Mali
  • Mali War
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• Nigeria
  • Communal conflicts in Nigeria
• Somalia
  • Civil war
• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict
  • Sudanese nomadic conflicts (incl. South Sudan)
• Western Sahara
  • Western Sahara conflict
    • 2020–2021 Western Saharan clashes

Americas

• Colombia
  • Colombian conflict
• Mexico
  • Mexican drug war
• Peru
  • Internal conflict in Peru

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan War
• China
  • Xinjiang conflict
  • Xinjiang internment camps
• India
  • Khalistan conflict
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
• India and Pakistan
  • Kashmir conflict
• Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
  • Moro conflict
    • Cross border attacks in Sabah
• Indonesia
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Internal conflict in Myanmar
    • Kachin conflict
    • Karen conflict
    • Rohingya conflict
• Pakistan
  • Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Insurgency in Balochistan
• Philippines
  • Communist rebellion
  • Philippine drug war
• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Ukraine
  • War in Donbass
    • Russo-Ukrainian War

Global

• War on terror

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
• Iraq
  • American-led intervention in Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
• Iraq and Syria (map)
  • International military intervention against ISIL
• Israel and Gaza
• Israel and Syria
  • Israeli-Syrian border conflict
• Syria
  • American-led intervention in Syria
  • Russian military intervention in the Syrian civil war
  • Turkish occupation of northern Syria
    • SDF insurgency
• Turkey
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict
• Yemen and Saudi Arabia
  • Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict

Further information: List of ongoing armed conflicts

2021 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain