On this day: 3 March
Events, births and deaths on 3 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Lincoln Díaz-Balart
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Sarah Tait
- Deaths · Martin Crowe
- Deaths · Thanat Khoman
100 years ago1926
- Births · James Merrill
- Births · Den Fujita
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1111 · Deaths · Bohemond I of Antioch
- 1009 · Deaths · Abd al-Rahman Sanchuelo
Events · 25
- 1284(Julian date)Statute of Rhuddlan — treaty signed at Rhuddlan castle, dividing the former kingdom of Gwynedd into five Welsh counties attached to England
- 1575(Julian date)Battle of Tukaroi — 1575 battle in eastern India
- 1776Raid of Nassau — 1776 naval operation and amphibious assault by Colonial forces against the British port of Nassau, Bahamas, during the American Revolutionary War
- 1779Battle of Brier Creek — 1779 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1845Florida — state of the United States of America
- 1865The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited — banking services company based in Hong Kong
- 1878Tenth Russo-Turkish War — 1877–1878 conflict between the Ottoman and Russian Empires
- 1878Treaty of San Stefano — peace treaty
- 1913Woman Suffrage Procession — 1913 suffragist parade in Washington, D.C., United States
- 1915National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics — U.S. federal agency
- 1918Treaty of Brest-Litovsk — peace treaty between the Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (3 March 1918)
- 1923Time — American news magazine and website
- 1933Nohra concentration camp — 1933 temporary nazi concentration camp
- 1942Attack on Broome — 1942 airstrike
- 1944Order of Nakhimov — Soviet military decoration
- 1944Balvano train disaster — train wreck
- 1945Bombing of the Bezuidenhout — 1945 Aerial bombing operation during World War II
- 1945Pawłokoma massacre — World War II massacre
- 1972Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 — 1972 aviation accident in Albany, New York
- 1974Turkish Airlines Flight 981 — 1974 aviation accident in France
- 19851985 Santiago jimin — March 1985 earthquake in Chile
- 1991United Airlines Flight 585 — 1991 aviation accident in Colorado, USA
- 2005Mayerthorpe tragedy — gun shot murder of 4 police officers and suicide
- 20092009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team — Cricket team Attack in Pakistan by terrorist, which stopped the International Cricket events in Pakistan
- 2012Szczekociny rail crash — 2012 railroad accident in Poland
Births · 60
- 1455(Julian date)John II of Portugal — Portuguese king
- 1520(Julian date)Matthias Flacius — Croatian theologian (1520–1575)
- 1756William Godwin — English journalist, political philosopher and novelist (1756–1836)
- 1778Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz — Duchess of Mecklenburg, Princess of Prussia, Solms-Braunfels & Great Britain, Queen of Hanover (1778-1841)
- 1805Jonas Furrer — Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1805-1861)
- 1819Gustave de Molinari — Belgian political economist and classical liberal theorist (1819–1912)
- 1831George Pullman — engineer and businessman from the United States (1831-1897)
- 1839Jamsetji Tata — Indian industrialist, founder of the Tata Group (born 1839)
- 1845Georg Cantor — German mathematician, inventor of set theory (1845–1918)
- 1847Alexander Graham Bell — Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
- 1868Alain — French philosopher (1868–1951)
- 1869Henry Wood — English conductor (1869–1944)
- 1871Maurice Garin — French cyclist (1871–1957)
- 1882Charles Ponzi — Italian businessman and con artist (1882–1949)
- 1895Ragnar Frisch — Norwegian economist (1895–1973)
- 1898Emil Artin — Austrian-Armenian mathematician (1898–1962)
- 1911Jean Harlow — American film actress (1911–1937)
- 1916Paul Halmos — American mathematician (1916–2006)
- 1917Sameera Moussa — Egyptian nuclear physicist (1917-1952)
- 1918Arthur Kornberg — American biochemist
- 1920James Doohan — Canadian actor (1920–2005)
- 1922Nándor Hidegkuti — Hungarian football player and manager (1922–2002)
- 1924Tomiichi Murayama — 81st Prime Minister of Japan (1924–2025)
- 1930Ion Iliescu — President of Romania (1990–1996; 2000–2004)
- 1933Lee Radziwill — American socialite (1933–2019)
Deaths · 60
- 264(Julian date)Jiang Wei — Chinese Shu Han state general (202-264)
- 1111(Julian date)Bohemond I of Antioch — Prince of Taranto and Prince of Antioch
- 1459(Julian date)Ausiàs March — Valencian poet and knight
- 1554(Julian date)John Frederick I — Elector of Saxony and Head of the Protestant Confederation of Germany (1503-1554)
- 1578Sebastiano Venier — Doge of Venice
- 1592Michiel Coxie — Flemish painter (1499-1592)
- 1616Matthias de l'Obel — Flemish physician and botanist (1538-1616)
- 1700(Julian date)Rajaram I — Third Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire
- 1703(Julian date)Robert Hooke — English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
- 1706Johann Pachelbel — German composer, organist and teacher
- 1707Aurangzeb — the sixth Mughal Emperor from 1658 to 1707
- 1765William Stukeley — English antiquarian (1687–1765)
- 1768Nicola Porpora — Italian composer
- 1792Robert Adam — British neoclassical architect (1728–1792)
- 1797Yves Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec — French Navy officer of the 18th century
- 1870Friedrich Boie — German scientist
- 1916George Huntington — American physician (1850–1916); discoverer of Huntington's disease
- 1927Mikhail Artsybashev — Russian writer and playwright (1878–1927)
- 1932Eugen d'Albert — Scottish-born German pianist and composer (1864-1932)
- 1959Lou Costello — American actor and comedian (1906–1959)
- 1961Paul Wittgenstein — Austrian pianist of Jewish heritage, emigrant from Nazi Austria to USA (1887-1961)
- 1966William Frawley — American actor (1887–1966)
- 1966Alice Pearce — American actress (1917–1966)
- 1982Georges Perec — French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist (1936–1982)
- 1982Firaq Gorakhpuri — Urdu author (1896-1982)
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