What are the important events that happened on March 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 16: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 16 is the 75th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 3, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,742,083,200 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 ‘heptacontapentagon’ day.
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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 338 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 4,468 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 16 Historical Events
- 597 BC –Babylonians captured Jerusalem, replaced Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
- 1660 –The Long Parliament dissolved.
- 1689 –The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
- 1865 –American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
- 1872 –The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
- 1926 –History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
- 1939 –From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
- 1939 –Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
- 1942 –The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
- 1977 –Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
Who were born on March 16?
- 1631 –René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
- 1911 –Dr. Josef Mengele, German physician and SS officer (d. 1979)
- 1940 –Keith Rowe, English painter and guitarist (AMM)
- 1954 –Jimmy Nail, British actor and singer
- 1963 –Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002)
- 1965 –Belén Rueda, Spanish actress
- 1968 –Ananya Khare, Indian actress and teacher
- 1970 –Reynolds Wolf, American TV meteorologist and journalist
- 1983 –Brandon League, American baseball player
- 1986 –Toney Douglas, American basketball player
Who died on March 16?
- 1037 –Robert I, Archbishop of Rouen
- 1649 –Saint Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
- 1679 –John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
- 1736 –Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (b. 1710)
- 1747 –Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)
- 1838 –Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician (b. 1773)
- 1914 –Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
- 1993 –Johnny Cymbal, American singer and producer (b. 1945)
- 2003 –Rachel Corrie, American political activist (b. 1979)
- 2006 –David Feintuch, American sci-fi author (b. 1944)
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