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 73^rd 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, 29,031,840 minutes 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.

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.

March 14 Historical Events

• 1381 –
  Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in Šibenik.
• 1647 –
  Thirty Years’ War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
• 1757 –
  Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
• 1780 –
  American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
• 1903 –
  The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
• 1943 –
  World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
• 1945 –
  World War II – The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
• 1964 –
  A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
• 1972 –
  Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
• 1979 –
  In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.

Who were born on March 14?

• 1638 –
  Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)
• 1844 –
  King Umberto I of Italy, (d. 1900)
• 1854 –
  Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1915)
• 1863 –
  Casey Jones, American railroad engineer (d. 1900)
• 1904 –
  Doris Eaton Travis, American actress, Ziegfeld girl (d. 2010)
• 1914 –
  Lee Elhardt Hays, American folk singer (d. 1981)
• 1933 –
  Sir Michael Caine, British actor
• 1947 –
  Jona Lewie, English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
• 1975 –
  Johan Paulik, Slovak porn star
• 1975 –
  Rico Yan, Filipino actor (d. 2002)

Who died on March 14?

• 1647 –
  Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
• 1698 –
  Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
• 1803 –
  Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German writer (b. 1724)
• 1884 –
  Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827)
• 1973 –
  Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
• 1983 –
  Maurice Ronet, French film actor (b. 1927)
• 1984 –
  Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet (b. 1915)
• 2006 –
  Ann Calvello, roller-derby queen (b. 1929)
• 2006 –
  Lennart Meri, former President of Estonia (b. 1929)
• 2007 –
  Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)