What are the important events that happened on March 4? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 4: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 4 is the 63^rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 19, 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, 1,741,046,400 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 ‘hexacontatrigon’ 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 350 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 4,456 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 4 Historical Events

• 306 –
  Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
• 1152 –
  Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
• 1351 –
  Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
• 1461 –
  Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
• 1791 –
  A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
• 1848 –
  Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
• 1917 –
  Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
• 1921 –
  Warren Harding becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio, via KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh.
• 1933 –
  The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
• 2001 –
  Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.

Who were born on March 4?

• 1935 –
  Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010)
• 1939 –
  Zvi Mazel, Israeli diplomat
• 1940 –
  Volodymyr Morozov, Ukrainian flatwater canoer
• 1941 –
  Bobby Shew, American jazz musician
• 1944 –
  Harvey Postlethwaite, English automotive engineer (d. 1999)
• 1944 –
  Len Walker, former English footballer and manager
• 1949 –
  Cookie Mueller, American actress and writer (d. 1989)
• 1962 –
  Greg Kragen, American footballer
• 1965 –
  Viktor Shapovalov, Russian auto racing driver
• 1977 –
  Grégory Le Corvec, French rugby union footballer

Who died on March 4?

• 1762 –
  Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
• 1853 –
  Thomas Bladen Capel Royal Navy admiral (b. 1776)
• 1866 –
  Alexander Campbell, Irish founder of the Disciples of Christ (b. 1788)
• 1925 –
  James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
• 1977 –
  Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian modernist poet, essayist, translator, novelist, publisher, literary and art critic (b. 1925)
• 1984 –
  Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
• 1986 –
  Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (b. 1913)
• 1994 –
  Chris Seydou, Malian fashion designer (b. 1949)
• 2007 –
  Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (b. 1932)
• 2011 –
  Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Indian politician and former Nepali Prime Minister (b. 1924)