Occult:This month in history/March
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- March - The "A" deck variant of the Rider-Waite Tarot is first published. (1910)
- 2 March - Famed Egyptologist, Howard Carter, dies. (1939)
- 5 March - 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)
- 7 March - The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of heretical philosophical and theological theses. (1277)
- 8 March - John of God, a Portuguese friar and saint, is born. (1495)
- 13 March - William Herschel discovers Uranus. (1781)
- 13 March - L. Ron Hubbard founder of the Church of Scientology is born. (1911)
- 15 March - The Ides of March - Julius Caesar is assassinated. (44 BC)
- 15 March - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne, ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty. (1917)
- 15 March - The Vlad Dracula Tarot is published for the first time as The Tarot of Vlad Dracula. (2020)
- 16 March - Over 200 Cathars are burned to death after refusing to recant after the Fall of Montségur. (1244)
- 17 March - The Angel Tarot is first published as The Angel-Evoking Tarot. (2019)
- 19 March - Occultist and author Damien Echols is sentenced to death. He will later be released from prison. (1994)
- 20 March - 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)
- 22 March - French alchemist and author Nicolas Flamel dies. (1418)
- 23 March - Tommy Bowman, an 8-year-old boy, disappears while hiking at Devil's Gate Dam. (1957)
- 29 March - Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers is expelled from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. (1900)
- 30 March - John Proctor, a farmer hanged for witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials, is born. (1632)