On this day: 1 March
Events, births and deaths on 1 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Angie Stone
- Events · Kai Tak Sports Park
- Deaths · Monta Mino
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Cesare Danova
- Births · Allan Stanley
- Births · Pete Rozelle
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 965 · Deaths · Leo VIII
- 1105 · Births · Alfonso VII of Castile
- 991 · Deaths · En'yū
Events · 23
- 1476(Julian date)Battle of Toro — 1476 battle during the War of the Castilian Succession
- 1562(Julian date)massacre of Vassy — mass killing of Huguenots by Francis, Duke of Guise, in Wassy, France, on 1 March 1562
- 1803Ohio — state of the United States of America
- 1867Nebraska — state of the United States of America
- 1870Battle of Cerro Corá — 1870 last battle of the Paraguayan War
- 1872Yellowstone National Park — first national park in the world, located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho in the United States
- 1896Battle of Adwa — battle between the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy near the town of Adwa, the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War, securing Ethiopian sovereignty
- 1901Australian Army — land warfare branch of Australia's defence forces
- 1919March First Movement — Korean national movement against Japanese occupation
- 1921Kronstadt rebellion — uprising against the Bolsheviks in March 1921
- 1932Manchukuo — Japanese puppet state in Manchuria (1932–1945)
- 1932Lindbergh kidnapping — Kidnapping and murder of 20 month old Charles Lindbergh Jr
- 19541954 United States Capitol shooting — attack on the US capitol by Puerto Rican nationalists
- 1956National People's Army — Army of the German Democratic Republic
- 1961Peace Corps — independent agency and volunteer program run by the United States Government
- 1962American Airlines Flight 1 — 1962 aviation accident
- 1964Paradise Airlines Flight 901A — 1964 aviation accident
- 1973Attack on the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum — carried out by the Black September Organization on March 01, 1973
- 19811981 Irish hunger strike — hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland
- 1992Sarajevo wedding attack — 1992 attack on a Bosnian Serb wedding in Sarajevo
- 2002Operation Anaconda — 2002 military operation
- 20142014 Kunming attack — knife attack at Kunming Railway Station in the city of Kunming, Yunnan
- 2025Kai Tak Sports Park — multi-purpose sports venue being built at the site of the original Kai Tak Airport
Births · 60
- 1105(Julian date)Alfonso VII of Castile — Castilian monarch
- 1456(Julian date)Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary — King of Bohemia and Hungary
- 1683Caroline of Ansbach — Queen consort of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 to 1737
- 1683Tsangyang Gyatso — sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet (1683-1706)
- 1810Frédéric Chopin — Polish composer and pianist (1810–1849)
- 1837William Dean Howells — American author, critic, and playwright (1837–1920)
- 1842Nikolaos Gyzis — Greek artist (1842-1901)
- 1868Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg — wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1868–1914)
- 1870E. M. Antoniadi — Greek astronomer
- 1876Henri de Baillet-Latour — Belgian sports executive (1876-1942)
- 1880Lytton Strachey — English writer (1880–1932)
- 1886Oskar Kokoschka — Austrian dramatic, painter and writer (1886–1980)
- 1892Ryūnosuke Akutagawa — Japanese writer (1892–1927)
- 1896Dimitri Mitropoulos — Greek and American conductor (1896–1960)
- 1899Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski — German politician and SS functionary (1899–1972)
- 1904Glenn Miller — American band leader, arranger, and composer (1904–1944)
- 1906Phạm Văn Đồng — First Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, diplomat (1906–2000)
- 1910David Niven — British actor and novelist (1910–1983)
- 1910Archer John Porter Martin — British chemist (1910–2002)
- 1914Ralph Ellison — American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994)
- 1917Robert Lowell — American poet (1917–1977)
- 1918João Goulart — President of Brazil from 1961 to 1964
- 1922Yitzhak Rabin — Israeli politician, statesman and general (1922–1995)
- 1924Deke Slayton — American astronaut (1924–1993)
- 1927Harry Belafonte — American singer, actor and civil rights activist (1927–2023)
Deaths · 60
- 492(Julian date)Felix III — pope (483-492)
- 965(Julian date)Leo VIII — pope
- 977(Julian date)Rudesind — Galician bishop and abbot
- 991(Julian date)En'yū — Emperor of Japan
- 1058Ermesinde of Carcassonne — Countess consort of Barcelona, Girona and Osona (c.975/8-1058)
- 1131(Julian date)Stephen II of Hungary — King of Hungary from 1116 to 1131
- 1233(Julian date)Thomas I, Count of Savoy — Count of Maurienne and Savoy, Marquess in Italia
- 1320(Julian date)Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan — emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (1285-1320)
- 1383Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy — Count of Savoy 1343-1383
- 1510(Julian date)Francisco de Almeida — Portuguese nobleman and soldier
- 1620Thomas Campion — English composer, poet and physician
- 1633George Herbert — Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
- 1643Girolamo Frescobaldi — Italian composer (1583–1643)
- 1697Francesco Redi — Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet (1626–1697)
- 1768Hermann Samuel Reimarus — German philosopher
- 1773Luigi Vanvitelli — Italian architect (1700-1773)
- 1792Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor — Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792
- 1792Angelo Emo — Venetian noble and admiral (1731-1792)
- 1841Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno — French soldier and military commander (1764-1841)
- 1857Johann Jakob Heckel — Austrian taxidermist, zoologist, and ichthyologist (1790-1857)
- 1862Peter Barlow — British mathematician and physicist
- 1875Tristan Corbière — French poet
- 1882Theodor Kullak — German musician (1818-1882)
- 1884Isaac Todhunter — English mathematician (1820-1884)
- 1906José María de Pereda — Spanish writer (1833–1906)
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