What are the important events that happened on March 31? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 31: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 31 is the 90^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 275 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 18, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 484,272 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 ‘enneacontagon’ 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 323 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 4,483 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 31 Historical Events

• 1822 –
  The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
• 1910 –
  Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
• 1917 –
  The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
• 1918 –
  Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
• 1930 –
  The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years.
• 1942 –
  World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
• 1966 –
  The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
• 1980 –
  The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
• 1991 –
  Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country’s independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1994 –
  Human evolution: The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.

Who were born on March 31?

• 1425 –
  Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (d. 1468)
• 1730 –
  Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (d. 1783)
• 1819 –
  Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German statesman (d. 1901)
• 1871 –
  Arthur Griffith, Irish politician (d. 1922)
• 1933 –
  Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)
• 1940 –
  Barney Frank, American politician
• 1980 –
  Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player
• 1981 –
  Ryan Bingham, American singer/songwriter
• 1988 –
  Louis van der Westhuizen, Namibian cricketer
• 1989 –
  Liu Zige, Chinese swimmer

Who died on March 31?

• 1074 –
  Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (b. 992)
• 1671 –
  Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
• 1837 –
  John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
• 1855 –
  Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
• 1880 –
  Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)
• 1944 –
  Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
• 1978 –
  Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899)
• 1983 –
  Christina Stead, Australian writer (b. 1902)
• 1993 –
  Chichay, Filipino actress (b. 1918)
• 2002 –
  Moturu Udayam, Indian women’s activist (b. 1924)