Occult:This month in history/March
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- March - The "A" deck variant of the Rider-Waite Tarot is first published. (1910)
- March 2 - Famed Egyptologist, Howard Carter, dies. (1939)
- March 5 - Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published. (1616)
- March 7 - The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of heretical philosophical and theological theses. (1277)
- March 8 - John of God, a Portuguese friar and saint, is born. (1495)
- March 13 - William Herschel discovers Uranus. (1781)
- March 13 - L. Ron Hubbard founder of the Church of Scientology is born. (1911)
- March 15 - The Ides of March - Julius Caesar is assassinated. (44 BC)
- March 15 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne, ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty. (1917)
- March 15 - The Vlad Dracula Tarot is published for the first time as The Tarot of Vlad Dracula. (2020)
- March 16 - Over 200 Cathars are burned to death after refusing to recant after the Fall of Montségur. (1244)
- March 17 - The Angel Tarot is first published as The Angel-Evoking Tarot. (2019)
- March 19 - Occultist and author Damien Echols is sentenced to death. He will later be released from prison. (1994)
- March 23 - Tommy Bowman, an 8-year-old boy, disappears while hiking at Devil's Gate Dam. (1957)
- March 20 - While in Cairo, Aleister Crowley's wife, Rose, received a channeled message from the god Horus, revealing: "the Equinox of the Gods has come." (1904)
- March 29 - Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers is expelled from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. (1900)
- March 30 - John Proctor, a farmer hanged for witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials, is born. (1632)