What are the important events that happened on March 18? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 18: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 18 is the 77^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 5, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 483,960 hours 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 ‘heptacontaheptagon’ 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 336 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 4,470 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

If the Gregorian calendar is not reformed, the March equinox will fall on this day for the first time in AD 4092.

March 18 Historical Events

• 235 –
  Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea are murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). The Severan dynasty ends.
• 1241 –
  Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
• 1865 –
  American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
• 1871 –
  Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
• 1874 –
  Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
• 1938 –
  Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
• 1945 –
  World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
• 1969 –
  The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
• 1974 –
  Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
• 1989 –
  In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.

Who were born on March 18?

• 1640 –
  Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
• 1842 –
  Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
• 1931 –
  John Mollo, British costume designer
• 1934 –
  Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
• 1939 –
  Ron Atkinson, English former footballer and manager
• 1941 –
  Wilson Pickett, American singer (d. 2006)
• 1959 –
  Luc Besson, French producer, writer, and director
• 1961 –
  Grant Hart, American musician (Hüsker Dü)
• 1975 –
  Tomas Žvirgždauskas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1996 –
  Madeline Carroll, American actress

Who died on March 18?

• 235 –
  Alexander Severus, Roman emperor (b. 208)
• 1227 –
  Pope Honorius III (b. 1148)
• 1746 –
  Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (b. 1718)
• 1768 –
  Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713)
• 1835 –
  Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)
• 1845 –
  Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (b. 1774)
• 1973 –
  Lauritz Melchior, Danish-born American opera singer (b. 1890)
• 1980 –
  Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
• 1986 –
  Bernard Malamud, American writer (b. 1914)
• 2009 –
  Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian blogger