What are the important events that happened on March 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 19: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 19 is the 78^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 287 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 6, 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, 1,742,342,400 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 ‘heptacontaoctagon’ 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 335 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 4,471 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

It’s uncommon for the March equinox to fall on this day. The last time it did was in 1796 and the next will be in 2044.

March 19 Historical Events

• 1865 –
  American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
• 1915 –
  Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not recognized as a planet.
• 1916 –
  Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history.
• 1920 –
  The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
• 1921 –
  Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
• 1921 –
  Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled and three wounded.
• 1943 –
  Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
• 1946 –
  French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
• 1962 –
  Algerian War of Independence: A ceasefire takes effect.
• 2004 –
  3-19 Shooting Incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country’s presidential election on March 20.

Who were born on March 19?

• 1488 –
  Johannes Magnus, Swedish religious figure (d. 1544)
• 1742 –
  Túpac Amaru II, Incan revolutionary (d. 1781)
• 1865 –
  William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and myrmecologist (d. 1937)
• 1902 –
  Louisa Ghijs, Belgian stage actress and wife of Johannes Heesters (d. 1985)
• 1914 –
  Fred Clark, American film actor (d. 1968)
• 1924 –
  Joe Gaetjens, Haitian-American footballer (d. c. 1964)
• 1936 –
  Birthe Wilke, Danish singer
• 1937 –
  Egon Krenz, last President of Communist East Germany
• 1960 –
  Simo Aalto, Finnish magician
• 1975 –
  Matthew Richardson, Australian rules footballer

Who died on March 19?

• 1697 –
  Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665)
• 1871 –
  Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795)
• 1897 –
  Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (b. 1810)
• 1930 –
  Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• 1950 –
  Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (b. 1875)
• 1974 –
  Edward Platt, American actor (b. 1916)
• 1976 –
  Paul Kossoff, English guitarist (Free) (b. 1950)
• 1979 –
  Richard Beckinsale, English actor (b. 1947)
• 1987 –
  Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1892)
• 2008 –
  Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (b. 1929)