About March 18
March 18, 2025 is the 77th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 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 336 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
If the Gregorian calendar is not reformed, the March equinox will fall on this day for the first time in AD 4092.
What Happened On March 18
- 235 –Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea are murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). The Severan dynasty ends.
- 1314 –Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
- 1673 –John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
- 1793 –The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
- 1834 –Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
- 1850 –American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
- 1871 –Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
- 1921 –The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
- 1922 –In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
- 1937 –Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
- 1938 –Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
- 1942 –The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
- 1953 –An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.
- 1959 –President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
- 1968 –Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
- 1980 –At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
- 1992 –White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.
- 2003 –British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
- 2003 –FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company’s top executives.
- 2003 –In the House of Commons, British MPs vote in favour of military intervention in Iraq by 412 votes to 149.
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