What are the important events that happened on March 28? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 28: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 28 is the 87^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 278 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 15, 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, 1,743,120,000 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 ‘octacontaheptagon’ day.

Aries 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 326 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 4,480 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 28 Historical Events

• 364 –
  Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
• 1794 –
  Allies under the prince of Coburg defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
• 1795 –
  Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
• 1809 –
  Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medelin.
• 1860 –
  First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
• 1862 –
  American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass – in New Mexico, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
• 1871 –
  The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
• 1941 –
  World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
• 1968 –
  Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship.
• 2005 –
  The 2005 Sumatra earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the fourth strongest earthquake since 1965.

Who were born on March 28?

• 1819 –
  Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (d. 1891)
• 1868 –
  Maxim Gorky, Russian author (d. 1936)
• 1899 –
  Harold B. Lee, American religious figure (d. 1973)
• 1900 –
  Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic (d. 2004)
• 1903 –
  Rudolf Serkin, Austrian pianist (d. 1991)
• 1911 –
  John Langshaw Austin, British language philosopher (d. 1960)
• 1965 –
  Steve Bull, English footballer
• 1970 –
  Aiga Zagorska, Lithuanian track and road cyclist
• 1972 –
  Eby J. Jose, Indian journalist
• 1988 –
  Lacey Turner, British actress

Who died on March 28?

• 193 –
  Pertinax, Roman Emperor (b. 126)
• 1566 –
  Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486)
• 1928 –
  Nathan Stubblefield, American inventor (b. 1860)
• 1941 –
  Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)
• 1947 –
  Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
• 1965 –
  Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
• 1965 –
  Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885)
• 1993 –
  Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
• 1995 –
  Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962)
• 2006 –
  Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)