About March 1

March 1, 2025 is the 60th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 305 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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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 353 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 1

  • 752 BC –
    Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.
  • 1457 –
    The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.
  • 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.
  • 1781 –
    The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
  • 1790 –
    The first United States census is authorized.
  • 1852 –
    Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
  • 1873 –
    E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
  • 1886 –
    The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
  • 1912 –
    Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
  • 1919 –
    March 1st Movement begins in Korea.
  • 1936 –
    A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen’s Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
  • 1941 –
    World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
  • 1946 –
    The Bank of England is nationalised.
  • 1954 –
    Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
  • 1966 –
    Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface.
  • 1971 –
    President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
  • 1981 –
    Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
  • 1992 –
    Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
  • 1995 –
    Prime Minister of Poland Waldemar Pawlak resigns from parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Józef Oleksy.
  • 2002 –
    U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.

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