About March 16
March 16, 2025 is the 75th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 338 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 16
- 597 BC –Babylonians captured Jerusalem, replaced Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
- 37 –Caligula became Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Tiberius.
- 1244 –Over 200 Cathars are burned after the Fall of Montségur
- 1322 –The Battle of Boroughbridge took place in the Despenser Wars.
- 1660 –The Long Parliament dissolved.
- 1802 –The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
- 1812 –Battle of Badajoz (March 16 – April 6) – British and Portuguese forces besieged and defeated French garrison during Peninsular War.
- 1815 –Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
- 1861 –Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
- 1865 –American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
- 1945 –Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
- 1950 –Communist Czechoslovakia’s ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country.
- 1958 –The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company’s founding.
- 1963 –Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000.
- 1966 –Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.
- 1968 –Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
- 1977 –Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
- 1978 –Supertanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history.
- 1988 –Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
- 2005 –Israel officially handed over Jericho to Palestinian control.
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