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, 29,031,840 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 ‘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

• 313 –
  Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
• 1590 –
  Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
• 1647 –
  Thirty Years’ War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
• 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.
• 1939 –
  Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
• 1945 –
  World War II – The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
• 1964 –
  A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
• 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.

Who were born on March 14?

• 1790 –
  Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
• 1822 –
  Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (d. 1889)
• 1885 –
  Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
• 1903 –
  Adolph Gottlieb American painter (d. 1974)
• 1908 –
  Philip Conrad Vincent, British motorcycle pioneer (Vincent Black Shadow, Vincent Rapide and Vincent Black Lightning) (d. 1979)
• 1928 –
  Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish populariser environmentalist (d. 1980)
• 1948 –
  Tom Coburn, American politician, junior Senator from Oklahoma
• 1970 –
  Meredith Salenger, American actress
• 1979 –
  Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
• 1981 –
  George Wilson, American football player

Who died on March 14?

• 1647 –
  Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
• 1682 –
  Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, Dutch painter (b. 1628)
• 1748 –
  George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)
• 1823 –
  John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent Royal Navy, Admiral of the Fleet
• 1946 –
  Werner von Blomberg, field marshal (b. 1878)
• 1995 –
  William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
• 2002 –
  Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930)
• 2003 –
  Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (b. 1945)
• 2003 –
  Jean-Luc Lagardère, French publisher (b. 1928)
• 2006 –
  Ann Calvello, roller-derby queen (b. 1929)