2007 Timeline

March 2007 events

President of France, Jaques Chirac who served as President since 1995 formally announced that he will not candidate for the third term on March 11, 2007. Chirac's political career was launched in 1962 when he was appointed head of the personal staff of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou. On Pompidou suggestion Chirac candidated for a seat in the French National Assembly in 1967 and was elected deputy for Corrèze département. From 1968 to 1971 he worked as state secretary of economy and in 1972 became minister of agriculture and rural development. In 1974 was Chirac was appointed Minister of the Interior but when Giscard d'Estaing succeeded Pompidou, Jaques Chirac became the Prime Minister of France in the same year. At the end of 1974 he became also the leader of the Gaullist party Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR). However, in 1976 Chirac resigned as the Prime Minister of France but won the elections for the Mayor of Paris one year later, 1977. Jaques Chirac held the office of the Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995 when he was elected President of France.

Timeline of March 2007 events

March 4
- Estonian Reform Party (Eesti Reformierakond) won the Estonian Parliamentary Elections.

March 5
- The space shuttle Atlantis is moved back to its hangar to repair hailstorm damage.
- Blind British adventurer Miles Hilton-Barber began his flight from London to Sydney in a micro-light.

March 6
- Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, Lewis Libby found guilty of obstructing the course of justice in the Valerie Plame case.

March 7
- The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) won the Northern Ireland Assembly election.

March 8
- The UN's nuclear agency, the IAEA approved cuts in technical aid to Iran.

March 11
- President of France, Jacques Chirac formally announced that he will not candidate for the third term.

March 12
- The British military's Skynet 5A satellite was successfully launched into space from Kourou in French Guiana.

March 15
- About 200,000 people demonstrated against the Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány in Budapest.

March 17
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov proposed continuation of negotiations on the future status of Kosovo.

March 19
- Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo, who was taken hostage in Afghanistan was released.
- American R&B soul singer and songwriter Luther Ingram died aged 69.
- My Birthday

March 21
- President of France, Jacques Chirac supported Nicolas Sarkozy in his candidacy for the President of France.

March 22
- A bomb exploded in Baghdad during the press conference of Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki and General-Secretary of the UN Ban Ki-moon but none of both politicians was injured.

March 23
- Naval forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guard seized 15 British Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters.

March 26
- The Liberal Party won a National Assembly election in the Canadian province of Québec.

March 30
- EU Foreign Ministers failed adopt to a common position about the Ahtisaari's plan of the future status of Kosovo on an informal meeting in Bremen, Germany.