What are the important events that happened on March 14? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 14: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 14 is the 73^rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 292 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 1, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,741,910,400 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 ‘heptacontatrigon’ 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 340 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 4,466 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 14 Historical Events

• 44 BC –
  Casca, Cicero and Cassius decided, in the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
• 313 –
  Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
• 1780 –
  American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
• 1782 –
  Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
• 1931 –
  Alam Ara, India’s first talkie film, is released.
• 1967 –
  The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
• 1978 –
  The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
• 1995 –
  Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
• 2007 –
  The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.
• 2008 –
  A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupted in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.

Who were born on March 14?

• 1638 –
  Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)
• 1854 –
  Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1920)
• 1887 –
  Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (d. 1962)
• 1912 –
  Charles Van Acker, Belgian racing driver (d. 1998)
• 1923 –
  Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)
• 1939 –
  Raymond J. Barry, American actor
• 1958 –
  Albert II, Prince of Monaco
• 1959 –
  Tamara Tunie, American actress
• 1961 –
  Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress
• 1986 –
  Andy Taylor, British/English footballer

Who died on March 14?

• 1647 –
  Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
• 1696 –
  Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
• 1823 –
  Charles François Dumouriez, French general (b. 1739)
• 1823 –
  John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent Royal Navy, Admiral of the Fleet
• 1932 –
  George Eastman, American inventor, and founder of Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
• 1973 –
  Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
• 1995 –
  William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
• 1997 –
  Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born director (b. 1907)
• 1999 –
  Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
• 2006 –
  Ann Calvello, roller-derby queen (b. 1929)