What are the important events that happened on March 12? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 12: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 12 is the 71^st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 294 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 27, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,028,960 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 ‘heptacontahenagon’ 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 342 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 4,464 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 12 Historical Events

• 538 –
  Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius.
• 1811 –
  Peninsular War: A day after a successful rear guard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
• 1913 –
  Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remained temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)
• 1918 –
  Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
• 1922 –
  Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan formed The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
• 1938 –
  Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria.
• 1950 –
  The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world’s deadliest air disaster at the time.
• 1993 –
  North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
• 1993 –
  The Blizzard of 1993 – Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours.
• 2004 –
  The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its national assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation’s history.

Who were born on March 12?

• 1895 –
  William C. Lee, American Army general (d. 1948)
• 1908 –
  Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
• 1956 –
  Steve Harris, English musician
• 1963 –
  Ian Holloway, English football manager
• 1963 –
  Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner
• 1968 –
  Tammy Duckworth, American politician, military aviator
• 1970 –
  Dave Eggers, American writer, editor, and publisher
• 1976 –
  Zhao Wei, Chinese actress
• 1978 –
  Casey Mears, American auto racer
• 1978 –
  Christianne Klein, American journalist and television personality

Who died on March 12?

• 1316 –
  King Stephen Dragutin of Serbia (b. 1253)
• 1681 –
  Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch painter (b. 1635)
• 1908 –
  Edmondo De Amicis, Italian children’s writer (b. 1846)
• 1937 –
  Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist (b. 1858)
• 1945 –
  Friedrich Fromm, German Army Officer (b. 1861)
• 1955 –
  Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
• 1985 –
  Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (b. 1899)
• 1990 –
  Wallace Breem, British author (b. 1926)
• 2008 –
  Jorge Guinzburg, Argentine journalist, producer and media host (b. 1949)
• 2011 –
  Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (Dave Brubeck Quartet; b. 1923)