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.
• 1622 –
  Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
• 1664 –
  New Jersey becomes a colony of England.
• 1918 –
  Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
• 1930 –
  Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
• 1940 –
  Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
• 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 –
  Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
• 1994 –
  The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
• 2003 –
  Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.

Who were born on March 12?

• 1718 –
  Joseph Damer, English politician (d. 1798)
• 1838 –
  William Henry Perkin, English chemist (d. 1907)
• 1922 –
  Lane Kirkland, American labor leader (d. 1999)
• 1950 –
  Javier Clemente, Spanish football manager
• 1966 –
  John Thompson III, American basketball coach
• 1968 –
  Tammy Duckworth, American politician, military aviator
• 1972 –
  Hector Luis Bustamante, Colombian actor
• 1974 –
  Chris Parr, American basketball player
• 1980 –
  John-Paul Lavoisier, American actor
• 1994 –
  Christina Grimmie, American singer, songwriter, pianist

Who died on March 12?

• 1289 –
  King Demetre II of Georgia (b. 1259)
• 1316 –
  King Stephen Dragutin of Serbia (b. 1253)
• 1608 –
  Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
• 1628 –
  John Bull, English composer
• 1757 –
  Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (b. 1696)
• 1930 –
  William George Barker, Canadian fighter ace (b. 1894)
• 1984 –
  Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (b. 1896)
• 1989 –
  Maurice Evans, English-born actor (b. 1901)
• 2002 –
  Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
• 2003 –
  Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)