What are the important events that happened on March 29? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 29: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 29 is the 88^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 277 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 16, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,053,440 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 ‘octacontaoctagon’ 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 325 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 4,481 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 29 Historical Events

• 1461 –
  Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
• 1632 –
  Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
• 1792 –
  King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm’s Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
• 1831 –
  Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.
• 1930 –
  Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
• 1951 –
  Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
• 1993 –
  Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
• 1999 –
  A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
• 2004 –
  The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
• 2010 –
  Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.

Who were born on March 29?

• 1553 –
  Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek Renaissance poet
• 1815 –
  Costache Caragiale,Romanian actor,writer 1st director of Craiova’s National Teather
• 1869 –
  Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist living in the United States (d. 1943)
• 1870 –
  Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (d. 1904)
• 1885 –
  Dezső Kosztolányi, Hungarian poet and writer (d. 1936)
• 1895 –
  Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
• 1943 –
  Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer
• 1959 –
  Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
• 1973 –
  Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer
• 1994 –
  Sulli Choi, South korean singer and dancer

Who died on March 29?

• 1683 –
  Yaoya Oshichi, young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)
• 1803 –
  Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch/Austrian patron of music (b. 1733)
• 1877 –
  Inazuma Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 7th Yokozuna (b. 1802)
• 1959 –
  Barthélemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
• 1980 –
  Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)
• 1989 –
  Bernard Blier, French actor (b. 1916)
• 1991 –
  Lee Atwater, American political consultant (b. 1951)
• 1996 –
  Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer and teacher (b. 1926)
• 2001 –
  Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)
• 2009 –
  Maurice Jarre, French composer (b. 1924)