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.
- 1190 –Massacre of Jews at Clifford’s Tower, York.
- 1244 –Over 200 Cathars are burned after the Fall of Montségur
- 1660 –The Long Parliament dissolved.
- 1689 –The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
- 1782 –American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
- 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.
- 1865 –American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
- 1912 –Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: “I am just going outside and may be some time.”
- 1924 –In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume became annexed as part of Italy.
- 1926 –History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
- 1939 –From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
- 1939 –Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.
- 1942 –The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.
- 1945 –Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
- 1963 –Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000.
- 1976 –British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons.
- 1978 –Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors.
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