Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 21

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March 21: 200th birthday of Benito Juárez (pictured), a Fiesta Patria in Mexico; World Poetry Day; Naw-Rúz in the Bahá'í calendar.

1556 - Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer was burnt at the stake in Oxford, England.
1804 - Code Napoléon was adopted as French civil law.
1933 - The construction of the first Nazi German concentration camp at Dachau was completed.
1935 - Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asked the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
1990 - Formerly known as South-West Africa, Namibia gained independence from South Africa, with Sam Nujoma swearing in as the first President.