Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 21
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March 21: Equinox and Chunfen (00:07 UTC, 2007); International Earth Day, Norouz in Iran and various Central Asian countries and in Zoroastrianism (2007); Naw-Rúz in the Bahá'í calendar, Benito Juárez Day in Mexico, World Poetry Day.
- 1556 - Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer (pictured) was burnt at the stake in Oxford, England.
- 1800 - Pius VII was crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
- 1804 - Code Napoléon was adopted as French civil law.
- 1933 - The construction of the first Nazi German concentration camp at Dachau was completed.
- 1990 - Formerly known as South-West Africa, Namibia gained independence from South Africa, with Sam Nujoma swearing in as the first President.
