National Theater Day in Azerbaijan
National Theater Day in Azerbaijan is held on March 10. This event in the first decade of the month March is annual. 
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National Theatre in Azerbaijan was created in the 1870s. On March 10, 1873, Baku real school performed the comedy "Adventure-vizier-khan Lankaran" by Mirza Fatali Akhundov. With this performance which was also organized by Hasan bey Zardabi and Najaf bey Vazirov, the national theatre was founded in Azerbaijan.
Theatre development in Azerbaijani culture has a very long history. It begins with the theatrical elements of open-air folk performances, the zorkhana games performed by pehlevans (wrestlers and weightlifters), folk sketches, religious ceremonies and rites, from ashugs (Caucasian folk poets and singers) playing the saz (an Azerbaijani long-necked lute) and narrating folk epics, to traditional Islamic mystery plays, mythology and dervish dances.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Eid al-Fitr on March 9 (also called the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", is a religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan);
Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Day in Azerbaijan on March 23
National Security Officers Day in Azerbaijan on March 28
Genocide Memorial Day in Azerbaijan on March 31
Night of Destiny on April 6
Azerbaijan Builder Day on April 10
Hidirellez on May 6 (Turkey, Azerbaijan, is also celebrated in other Turkic-speaking countries as the day on which the prophets Khidr [al-Khidr] and Ilyas [Ilya] met on earth)