5 March 1919.

Fighting breaks out in Berlin between the Spartacists and pro-government Freikorps troops. 

6 March 1919.

30,000 Freikorps troops eject the Spartacists from public buildings in Berlin, they retreat into the working class districts in the east of the city. 

8 March 1919.

Beginnings of the Egyptian Revolution. Four prominent Nationalists arrested for calling for full independence from GB. Riots break out over the following days firstly in Cairo then spreading to the rest of the country.

In Siberia the White Army captures Okhansk and Osa.

10 March 1919.

The government backed Freikorps regain control of Berlin, over the following week hundreds of captured Spartacists are murdered by the Freikorps.

A Bolshevik army advances on the port of Odessa in Ukraine, the Allied occupation force in the city agrees to evacuate by the end of the month.

17 March 1919.

Bolshevik troops capture the village of Bolshie-Ozerk overwhelming the French and White Russian garrison. The village lay on the railroad between Murmansk, through which all Allied supplies arrived in the winter months, and the front line.

20 March 1919.

In Hungary the government of Prime Minister Berinkey resigns after just ten weeks when it refuses to comply with an order from the Allies to withdraw its troops from a disputed area of Transylvania claimed by Roumania.

21 March 1919.

In scenes that would be farcical if they weren't so serious the Hungarian President Karolyi appoints a new government to succeed the one that resigned the day before. He names the leader of the Social Democratic Party Sandor Garbai as Prime Minister.

However, unknown to Karolyi, Garbai has merged his party with the Communist Party and immediately upon his appointment he proclaims the Hungarian Soviet Republic and forces Karolyi's resignation.

In fact Garbai is little more than a figurehead, real power lies with his Foreign Minister Bela Kun who is taking orders directly from Lenin in Moscow.   

23 March 1919.

A British-US-White attack on the Bolshevik held village of Bolshie-Ozerki fails (see 17 March)/.

The Austrian Imperial family, who had resided at Eckartsau since Emperor Karl renounced the government in November, leave by train for Switzerland. 

29 March 1919.

Italian troops occupy the Turkish Mediterranean port of Adalia. Within weeks they have taken over much of Turkey's southern coastline and remain there until 1921.

31 March 1919.

As an Anglo-US-White Russian force of around 2000 prepare to attack the Bolshevik-held village of Bolshie-Ozerki (see 17 & 23 March) the Reds launch a counter-attack but are driven back with heavy loss.