What are the important events that happened on March 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 14: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 14 is the 73rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 292 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 1, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,741,910,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontatrigon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 340 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,466 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 14 Historical Events
- 44 BC –Casca, Cicero and Cassius decided, in the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
- 313 –Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
- 1381 –Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
- 1590 –Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
- 1757 –Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
- 1794 –Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
- 1900 –The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
- 1967 –The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1979 –In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
- 1994 –Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
Who were born on March 14?
- 1844 –King Umberto I of Italy, (d. 1900)
- 1866 –Alexey Troitsky, Russian chess problemist (d. 1942)
- 1879 –Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1916 –Horton Foote, American author, playwright and screenwriter (d. 2009)
- 1944 –Bobby Smith, English professional footballer and manager
- 1950 –Rick Dees, American disc jockey
- 1960 –Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1975 –Rico Yan, Filipino actor (d. 2002)
- 1980 –Mercedes McNab, Canadian-born actress
- 1982 –Carlos Marinelli, Argentine footballer
Who died on March 14?
- 1682 –Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, Dutch painter (b. 1628)
- 1933 –Balto, Siberian Husky noted for his role in the 1925 serum run to Nome (b. 1919)
- 1946 –Werner von Blomberg, field marshal (b. 1878)
- 1949 –John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873)
- 1957 –Evagoras Pallikarides, Greek-Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938)
- 1984 –Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet (b. 1915)
- 1991 –Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925)
- 2003 –Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (b. 1945)
- 2006 –Ann Calvello, roller-derby queen (b. 1929)
- 2010 –Janet Simpson, British track and field athlete (b. 1944)
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