March 9: Workers of Chittagong port refuse to unload weapons from the ship 'Swat'.
March 19: Nearly 50 people die as Pakistan Army opens fire on demonstrators at Jaydevpur.
March 24: Pakistan Army opens fire on Bengali demonstrators in Syedpur, Rangpur and Chittagong. More than a thousand people are killed.
Events during the WarMarch
March 25: Pakistan Army starts Operation Searchlight in Dhaka and rest of the country, attacking general civilians, political activists, students, and Bengali members of armed forces and police
March 26: This is Bangladesh's official Independence Day.