March Days in Baku

Date: March 30, 1918 • Location: Badamdar, Azerbaijan

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1918.

Four days of inter-ethnic clashes broke out in Baku, Azerbaijan, resulting in about 12,000 deaths.

The March Days or March Events was a period of inter-ethnic strife and clashes which took place between 30 March – 2 April 1918 in the city of Baku and adjacent areas of the Baku Governorate of the Transcaucasian Commissariat.