Esfand · Spenta Armaiti 1402

February 20 – March 19, 2024

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Events this month

  • Chotrul Düchen (Day of Miracles) · Chotrul Duchen · 5 Esfand · Spenta Armaiti

    Buddhist · Cultural

    The first full moon after Losar, closing the fifteen days of the Buddha's miracles at Shravasti, kept with displays of butter lamps.

  • Magha Puja (Sangha Day) · Magha Puja · 5 Esfand · Spenta Armaiti

    Buddhist · Cultural

    The gathering of 1,250 enlightened disciples before the Buddha, on the full moon of Magha (Sri Lanka's Navam Poya); in Thai leap years Thailand keeps it a month later.

  • Baloch Culture Day · 12 Esfand · Spenta Armaiti

    Baloch · Cultural

    The Baloch people's day for their culture, kept every 2 March since 2010 with Baloch dress, folk music, dances and food, in Balochistan, Iran, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf states.

  • Women's Right to Vote · Haqq-e Ra'y-e Zanan · 13 Esfand · Spenta Armaiti

    Iranian · Historical

    Iranian women gained the right to vote and to stand for parliament by government decree (3 March 1963), after a referendum in which women voted.

  • Women's March Against Compulsory Hijab · 17 Esfand · Spenta Armaiti

    Iranian · Historical

    On International Women's Day, tens of thousands of women marched in Tehran against the new rule of compulsory hijab (17 Esfand 1357; 8 March 1979).

  • Maha Shivaratri · 18 Esfand · Spenta Armaiti

    Hindu · Cultural

    The great night of Shiva, kept with a night-long fast and vigil on the 14th night of the waning moon of Magha (Phalguna in the northern reckoning), in February or March.

  • Festival of Fire · Chaharshanbe Suri · 22 Esfand · Spenta Armaiti

    Iranian · Ancient festival

    Bonfires on the eve of the year's last Wednesday, to leave the old year's troubles behind.

  • Completion of the Shahnameh · Payan-e Sorayesh-e Shahnameh · 25 Esfand · Spenta Armaiti

    Iranian · Cultural

    Ferdowsi finished the Shahnameh, the Persian Book of Kings, in 1010 after some thirty years' work.

  • Halabja chemical attack · 26 Esfand · Spenta Armaiti

    Kurdish · Historical

    Saddam Hussein's regime gassed the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988, killing thousands.

  • Clean Monday · Kathara Deftera · 28 Esfand · Spenta Armaiti

    Christian · Cultural

    The first day of Great Lent, 48 days before Orthodox Easter; a public holiday in Greece and Cyprus, with kites and lagana bread.

  • Oil Nationalization · Melli Shodan-e San'at-e Naft · 29 Esfand · Spenta Armaiti

    Iranian · Historical

    Under Mohammad Mosaddegh's leadership, Iran's oil industry was nationalized: the Majlis passed the law on 24 Esfand and the Senate on 29 Esfand 1329 (20 March 1951).

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