What are the important events that happened on March 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 16: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 16 is the 75^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 3, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,742,083,200 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 ‘heptacontapentagon’ 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 338 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 4,468 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 16 Historical Events

• 597 BC –
  Babylonians captured Jerusalem, replaced Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
• 1792 –
  King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he died on March 29.
• 1802 –
  The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
• 1812 –
  Battle of Badajoz (March 16 – April 6) – British and Portuguese forces besieged and defeated French garrison during Peninsular War.
• 1815 –
  Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
• 1818 –
  Second Battle of Cancha Rayada – Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
• 1916 –
  The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing crossed the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
• 1978 –
  Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors.
• 1978 –
  Supertanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.
• 1995 –
  Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment is officially ratified in 1865.

Who were born on March 16?

• 1581 –
  Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647)
• 1912 –
  Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
• 1928 –
  Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor
• 1929 –
  Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress
• 1935 –
  Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano
• 1949 –
  Erik Estrada, American actor
• 1953 –
  Óscar Ramírez, Peruvian revolutionary
• 1959 –
  Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
• 1970 –
  Joakim Berg, Swedish singer (Kent)
• 1981 –
  Danny Brown (rapper), American rapper

Who died on March 16?

• 1322 –
  Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276)
• 1457 –
  László Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (b. 1433)
• 1721 –
  James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657)
• 1892 –
  Samuel F. Miller, American politician (b. 1827)
• 1930 –
  Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator (b. 1870)
• 1945 –
  Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
• 1983 –
  Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (b. 1903)
• 2008 –
  Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
• 2008 –
  G. David Low, American astronaut (b. 1956)
• 2011 –
  Richard Wirthlin, American political strategist for Ronald Reagan. (b. 1931)