About March 1
March 1, 2022 is the 60th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 305 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 327 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 1
- 317 –Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares
- 1562 –23 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
- 1593 –The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.
- 1633 –Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
- 1642 –Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
- 1700 –Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian Calendar on this date in 1753.
- 1790 –The first United States census is authorized.
- 1836 –A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
- 1870 –Marshal F.S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the War of the Triple Alliance.
- 1901 –The Australian Army was formed.
- 1921 –The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
- 1932 –The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
- 1936 –The Hoover Dam is completed.
- 1946 –The Bank of England is nationalised.
- 1962 –American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on take off in New York.
- 1973 –Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
- 1989 –The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
- 1990 –Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- 2003 –The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
- 2007 –Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
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