What are the important events that happened on March 18? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 18: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 18 is the 77^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 5, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,037,600 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 ‘heptacontaheptagon’ 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 336 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 4,470 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

If the Gregorian calendar is not reformed, the March equinox will fall on this day for the first time in AD 4092.

March 18 Historical Events

• 235 –
  Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea are murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). The Severan dynasty ends.
• 1673 –
  John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
• 1793 –
  The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
• 1871 –
  Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
• 1921 –
  The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
• 1937 –
  The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 km outside Milan.
• 1942 –
  The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
• 1962 –
  The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.
• 1967 –
  The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
• 1997 –
  The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.

Who were born on March 18?

• 1555 –
  François, Duke of Anjou (d. 1584)
• 1602 –
  Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)
• 1813 –
  Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer (d. 1864)
• 1928 –
  Fidel V. Ramos, Philippine politician
• 1931 –
  John Mollo, British costume designer
• 1946 –
  Martyn Griffiths, British racing driver
• 1947 –
  Heather Ryan, American model
• 1978 –
  Antonio Margarito, Mexican boxer
• 1980 –
  Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
• 1981 –
  Kasib Powell, American basketball player

Who died on March 18?

• 1314 –
  Jacques DeMolay, Frankish noble, the 23rd Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. 1244)
• 1583 –
  King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
• 1845 –
  Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (b. 1774)
• 1962 –
  Walter W. Bacon, American politician (b. 1880)
• 1965 –
  King Farouk I of Egypt (b. 1920)
• 1978 –
  Leigh Brackett, American author (b. 1915)
• 1980 –
  Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
• 1983 –
  King Umberto II of Italy, (b. 1904)
• 2001 –
  John Phillips, American musician (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1935)
• 2007 –
  Bob Woolmer, South African cricketer (b. 1948)