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 * Spartan-Jane is born along with many other SPARTAN-IIIs of Alpha Company.
 * Jake Courage begins his career as a photo journalist on Reach.
 * Commander Dmitri Zheng rams his UNSC Frigate into a Covenant destroyer. He avoids court-martial because the disabled destroyer was destroyed by MAC fire. Whilst he is away, his home world is glassed.
 * Spartan-II Soren-066 is assigned to a supposedly temporary desk job on Reach. It is here that he meets Partch, an Insurrectionist who will eventually change Soren's allegiances.
 * March 20: Benjamin M. Nunez is born on Mars