About March 11
March 11, 2025 is the 70th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 295 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Pisces is the sun 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 343 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 11
- 222 –Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber.
- 1649 –The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil.
- 1702 –The Daily Courant, England’s first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
- 1784 –The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
- 1811 –During André Masséna’s retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Masséna time to escape.
- 1824 –The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- 1848 –Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
- 1861 –American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
- 1864 –The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
- 1872 –Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
- 1872 –The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
- 1888 –The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
- 1942 –World War II: General Douglas MacArthur leaves Corregidor.
- 1945 –World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
- 1977 –The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
- 1990 –Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
- 1993 –Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
- 2004 –Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
- 2006 –Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
- 2007 –Russian helicopters reportedly attack the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later.
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