About March 22

March 22, 2025 is the 81st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 284 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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Aries 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 332 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 22

  • 1621 –
    The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
  • 1638 –
    Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
  • 1739 –
    Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
  • 1809 –
    Charles XIII succeeds Gustav IV Adolf to the Swedish throne.
  • 1849 –
    The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
  • 1871 –
    In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
  • 1873 –
    A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
  • 1888 –
    In England, The Football League, the world’s oldest professional Association Football league, is founded.
  • 1894 –
    The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
  • 1906 –
    First Anglo-French rugby union match at Parc des Princes in Paris
  • 1916 –
    The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
  • 1923 –
    The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.
  • 1939 –
    World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
  • 1942 –
    World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy’s Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
  • 1960 –
    Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
  • 1982 –
    NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
  • 1984 –
    Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
  • 1995 –
    Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
  • 2006 –
    ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire.
  • 2009 –
    Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska begins erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.

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