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Esfand (Persian: اسفند‎‎, [esˈfænd]) is the twelfth and final month of the Iranian calendar. Esfand has twenty-nine days normally, and thirty during leap years. It begins in February and ends in March of the Gregorian calendar.

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Esfand is the third and last month of the winter season (Zemestan), and is followed by Farvardin.

Observances

15 Esfand: Arbor Day in Iran This date, which typically starts on March 5, starts Natural Recyclable Resources Week, ending on March 12.

Deaths

  • 16 - 1391 - Hugo Chávez, was the President of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013
  • 17 - 1308 - William Howard Taft, Chief Justice and 27th President of the United States
  • 18 - 1390 - Simin Daneshvar, Iranian was an Iranian[4] academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator.

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