About March 1
March 1, 2024 is the 61st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 305 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 334 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 1
- 509 BC –Publius Valerius Publicola, Roman consul, celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
- 293 –Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus as Caesar to Maximian.
- 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.
- 1628 –Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
- 1811 –Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
- 1854 –German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
- 1867 –Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
- 1870 –Marshal F.S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the War of the Triple Alliance.
- 1872 –Yellowstone National Park is established as the world’s first national park.
- 1914 –The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
- 1941 –W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S.
- 1956 –Formation of the National People’s Army
- 1961 –Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
- 1966 –Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface.
- 1971 –A bomb explodes in a men’s room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
- 1981 –Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
- 2003 –The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
- 2004 –Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum becomes President of Iraq.
- 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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