March 1 facts for kids

March 1 is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 305 days remain until the end of the year.

This page tells you about important events, famous birthdays, and special days that happen on March 1st!

Events

History from Ancient Times to 1600

• 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrated a big victory parade in ancient Rome after winning a battle.
• 293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian chose Constantius Chlorus and Galerius to be their helpers, starting a system of "Four Rulers of the World."
• 350 – Vetranio declared himself a ruler after being encouraged by Constantina, the sister of Emperor Constantius II.
• 834 – Emperor Louis the Pious became the only ruler of the Frankish Empire again.
• 1476 – Armies from Spain fought against armies from Portugal and Castile in the Battle of Toro.
• 1562 – Many Huguenots (French Protestants) were killed in Wassy, France. This event started the French Wars of Religion.

History from 1601 to 1900

• 1628 – King Charles I of England made a rule that every county in England had to pay a special tax for ships by this date.
• 1633 – Samuel de Champlain took back his role as the leader of New France.
• 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba were brought to court in Salem Village, Massachusetts. This was the start of the famous Salem Witch Trials.
• 1781 – The Articles of Confederation, which was the first constitution of the United States, officially began.
• 1796 – The Dutch East India Company was taken over by the government of the Batavian Republic.
• 1805 – Justice Samuel Chase was found not guilty at the end of his trial in the U.S. Senate.
• 1815 – Napoleon returned to France after being sent away to the island of Elba.
• 1836 – People from 57 communities in Texas met to discuss becoming independent from Mexico.
• 1845 – U.S. President John Tyler signed a bill that allowed the United States to add the Republic of Texas to its territory.
• 1867 – Nebraska became the 37th U.S. state.
• 1870 – Marshal Francisco Solano López died during the Battle of Cerro Corá, ending the Paraguayan War.
• 1871 – The winning Prussian Army marched through Paris, France, after the Siege of Paris ended during the Franco-Prussian War.
• 1872 – Yellowstone National Park was created as the world's first national park.
• 1893 – Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla showed the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1896 – In the Battle of Adwa, an Ethiopian army defeated an Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
• 1896 – Henri Becquerel discovered radioactive decay, which is when atoms break down and release energy.

History from 1901 to Today

• 1901 – The Australian Army was officially formed.
• 1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buried a train in Washington, killing 96 people.
• 1914 – China joined the Universal Postal Union, which helps countries send mail to each other.
• 1917 – The Zimmermann Telegram, a secret message, was printed in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government released its unencrypted text.
• 1919 – The March 1st Movement began in Korea under Japanese rule, where people protested for independence.
• 1921 – The Australian cricket team won every game in The Ashes series, a rare achievement in cricket.
• 1921 – The Kronstadt rebellion began in Russia, where sailors and citizens fought against the government.
• 1932 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son was taken from his home in New Jersey.
• 1941 – World War II: Bulgaria signed the Tripartite Pact, joining the Axis powers.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces landed on Java, a main island of the Dutch East Indies.
• 1946 – The Bank of England was taken over by the government.
• 1947 – The International Monetary Fund, an organization that helps countries with money problems, started its work.
• 1950 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs was found guilty of sharing top secret atomic bomb information with the Soviet Union.
• 1953 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin became very ill and died four days later.
• 1954 – Nuclear weapons testing: A very powerful hydrogen bomb called Castle Bravo was exploded on Bikini Atoll. This caused the worst radioactive contamination ever by the United States.
• 1956 – A special alphabet for radio communication was finalized for use in air travel.
• 1956 – The East German army was formed.
• 1958 – Samuel Alphonsus Stritch became the first U.S. member of an important group in the Roman Curia, the government of the Catholic Church.
• 1961 – Uganda started ruling itself and held its first elections.
• 1962 – American Airlines Flight 1 crashed in Jamaica Bay in New York, killing 95 people.
• 1964 – Villarrica Volcano erupted, causing mudslides that destroyed half of the town of Coñaripe.
• 1964 – Paradise Airlines Flight 901A crashed near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, killing 85 people.
• 1966 – The Venera 3 Soviet space probe landed on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
• 1966 – The Ba'ath Party took power in Syria.
• 1971 – The President of Pakistan postponed a meeting, which led to big protests in East Pakistan.
• 1973 – The Black September group took over the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan.
• 1974 – Watergate scandal: Seven people were charged with trying to stop justice in the Watergate break-in.
• 1981 – Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands started a hunger strike in prison.
• 1990 – Steve Jackson Games was raided by the United States Secret Service, which later led to the creation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• 1991 – Protests against Saddam Hussein began in Iraq, leading to many deaths.
• 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina declared its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 1998 – The movie Titanic became the first film to earn over $1 billion worldwide.
• 2002 – U.S. forces began Operation Anaconda in eastern Afghanistan.
• 2002 – The Envisat environmental satellite was successfully launched into space to study Earth.
• 2003 – Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service moved to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
• 2005 – In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is against the constitution to execute young people who have committed crimes.
• 2006 – English-language Wikipedia reached its one millionth article, about Jordanhill railway station.
• 2007 – Tornadoes hit the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including some at Enterprise High School.

Births

Famous People Born Before 1900

• 1389 – Antoninus of Florence, an Italian archbishop and saint.
• 1456 – Vladislaus II of Hungary, a king.
• 1547 – Rudolph Goclenius, a German philosopher.
• 1597 – Jean-Charles della Faille, a Flemish priest and mathematician.
• 1611 – John Pell, an English mathematician.
• 1683 – Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth Dalai Lama.
• 1683 – Caroline of Ansbach, a British queen.
• 1732 – William Cushing, an American lawyer and judge.
• 1807 – Wilford Woodruff, an American religious leader.
• 1810 – Frédéric Chopin, a famous Polish pianist and composer.
• 1812 – Augustus Pugin, an English architect who helped design the Palace of Westminster.
• 1837 – William Dean Howells, an American novelist and critic.
• 1848 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, an Irish-American sculptor.
• 1863 – Alexander Golovin, a Russian painter.
• 1872 – Henri Becquerel, a French physicist who discovered radioactivity.
• 1880 – Lytton Strachey, a British writer.
• 1886 – Oskar Kokoschka, an Austrian-Swiss painter and poet.
• 1892 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, a Japanese author.
• 1896 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, a Greek conductor and composer.

Famous People Born After 1900

• 1904 – Glenn Miller, a famous American trombonist and bandleader.
• 1910 – Archer John Porter Martin, an English chemist who won a Nobel Prize.
• 1910 – David Niven, an English actor.
• 1914 – Ralph Ellison, an American novelist.
• 1917 – Dinah Shore, an American singer and actress.
• 1922 – Yitzhak Rabin, an Israeli general and politician who became Prime Minister and won the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1924 – Deke Slayton, an American astronaut.
• 1927 – Harry Belafonte, an American singer-songwriter and actor.
• 1935 – Robert Conrad, an American actor.
• 1944 – Roger Daltrey, an English singer from The Who.
• 1945 – Dirk Benedict, an American actor.
• 1947 – Alan Thicke, a Canadian-American actor.
• 1952 – Martin O'Neill, a Northern Irish footballer and manager.
• 1953 – M. K. Stalin, an Indian politician.
• 1954 – Catherine Bach, an American actress.
• 1954 – Ron Howard, a famous American actor, director, and producer.
• 1956 – Tim Daly, an American actor.
• 1956 – Dalia Grybauskaitė, a Lithuanian politician who became President.
• 1958 – Nik Kershaw, an English singer-songwriter.
• 1958 – Bertrand Piccard, a Swiss aviator who flew around the world in a balloon.
• 1965 – Booker T, an American professional wrestler.
• 1966 – Zack Snyder, an American film director.
• 1969 – Javier Bardem, a Spanish actor.
• 1971 – Ma Dong-seok, a South Korean-American actor.
• 1973 – Jack Davenport, an English actor.
• 1973 – Chris Webber, an American basketball player.
• 1974 – Mark-Paul Gosselaar, an American actor.
• 1978 – Jensen Ackles, an American actor.
• 1980 – Shahid Afridi, a Pakistani cricketer.
• 1983 – Lupita Nyong'o, a Kenyan-Mexican actress.
• 1987 – Kesha, an American singer-songwriter.
• 1994 – Justin Bieber, a Canadian singer-songwriter.
• 1994 – Tyreek Hill, an American football player.

Deaths

Notable People Who Died Before 1900

• 492 – Felix III, a pope of the Catholic Church.
• 589 – David, a Welsh bishop and saint.
• 965 – Leo VIII, a pope of the Catholic Church.
• 991 – En'yū, a Japanese emperor.
• 1058 – Ermesinde of Carcassonne, a countess and regent.
• 1131 – Stephen II, a king of Hungary and Croatia.
• 1510 – Francisco de Almeida, a Portuguese soldier and explorer.
• 1546 – George Wishart, a Scottish minister.
• 1633 – George Herbert, an English poet.
• 1643 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, an Italian musician and composer.
• 1697 – Francesco Redi, an Italian physician and poet.
• 1792 – Leopold II, a Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1862 – Peter Barlow, an English mathematician and physicist.
• 1875 – Tristan Corbière, a French poet.
• 1889 – William Henry Monk, an English organist and composer.

Notable People Who Died After 1900

• 1911 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, a Dutch-German chemist who won a Nobel Prize.
• 1914 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, a British soldier and politician who was Governor General of Canada.
• 1925 – Homer Plessy, an American political activist known for a famous civil rights case.
• 1938 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, an Italian journalist and politician.
• 1943 – Alexandre Yersin, a Swiss-French physician who helped discover the bacteria that causes the plague.
• 1966 – Fritz Houtermans, a Polish-German physicist.
• 1978 – Paul Scott, an English author.
• 1980 – Dixie Dean, a famous English footballer.
• 1983 – Arthur Koestler, a Hungarian-English journalist and author.
• 1984 – Jackie Coogan, an American actor who started as a child star.
• 1991 – Edwin H. Land, an American scientist who co-founded the Polaroid Corporation.
• 1995 – Georges J. F. Köhler, a German biologist who won a Nobel Prize.
• 2006 – Peter Osgood, an English footballer.
• 2006 – Jack Wild, an English actor.
• 2014 – Alain Resnais, a French film director.
• 2015 – Minnie Miñoso, a Cuban-American baseball player.
• 2023 – Just Fontaine, a French footballer.
• 2024 – Iris Apfel, an American businesswoman and designer.
• 2024 – Akira Toriyama, a Japanese manga artist, creator of Dragon Ball.

Holidays and Observances

• Beer Day in Iceland, celebrating when beer was allowed again in 1989.
• Saint David's Day or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi in Wales, honoring their patron saint.
• Heroes' Day in Paraguay.
• Independence Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina, celebrating their independence from Yugoslavia in 1992.
• National Pig Day in the United States.
• Samiljeol in South Korea, remembering a protest for independence.
• Self-injury Awareness Day around the world.
• Southeastern Europe celebrates the start of spring with:
  • Baba Marta Day in Bulgaria.
  • Mărțișor in Romania and Moldova.
• The final day of Ayyám-i-Há for the Baháʼí Faith.
• World Seagrass Day, celebrating important ocean plants.
• Yap Day in Yap State.
• Zero Discrimination Day, promoting fairness for everyone.

See also

In Spanish: 1 de marzo para niños