On this day: 12 March
Events, births and deaths on 12 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Lloyd Shapley
100 years ago1926
- Births · George Ariyoshi
- Births · John Clellon Holmes
- Births · Arthur A. Hartman
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1022 · Deaths · Symeon the New Theologian
- 969 · Deaths · Emperor Muzong of Liao
Events · 15
- 1579Siege of Maastricht — siege and capture of Maastricht by Alexander Farnese during the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648)
- 1689Williamite War in Ireland — 1689–91 conflict between supporters of rival claimants to the British throne
- 1811Battle of Redinha — 1811 battle of the Peninsular War
- 1912Girl Scouts of the USA — non-profit organization in the USA
- 1913Canberra — capital city of Australia
- 1940Moscow Peace Treaty — peace treaty signed by Finland and the Soviet Union on 12 March 1940
- 1947Truman Doctrine — United States Cold War policy to contain communism in Europe and elsewhere
- 1950Llandow air disaster — 1950 Crash of an Avro Tudor V in Wales
- 1968Mauritius — island sovereign state off of East Africa in the Indian Ocean
- 19711971 Turkish military memorandum — 12 March 1971 government coup in Turkey
- 19931993 Bombay bombings — serial terrorist bombing
- 2003assassination of Zoran Đinđić — 2003 murder of the Prime Minister of Serbia
- 2006Mahmudiyah killings — gang-rape and killing of 14-year-old Iraqi girl Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi by US Army soldiers
- 20142014 East Harlem gas explosion — 2014 gas explosion in New York, New York, United States
- 2018US Bangla Airlines Flight 211 — scheduled international passenger flight by US-Bangla Airlines
Births · 60
- 1270(Julian date)Charles of Valois — French prince (1270-1325)
- 1607Paul Gerhardt — German Lutheran theologian and hymn writer (1607-1676)
- 1613André Le Nôtre — French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France (1613–1700)
- 1626(Julian date)John Aubrey — English writer and antiquarian (1626-1697)
- 1637Anne, Duchess of York — English Royal (1637-1671)
- 1685George Berkeley — Irish idealist philosopher and Anglican bishop (1685–1753)
- 1710Thomas Arne — 18th-century British composer
- 1781Frederica of Baden — Swedish Queen (1781-1826)
- 1784William Buckland — English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)
- 1806Jane Pierce — First Lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857
- 1815Louis Jules Trochu — French general, President of the National Defence Council (1815-1896)
- 1821John Abbott — 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (1821-1893)
- 1824Gustav Kirchhoff — German physicist (1824–1887)
- 1835Simon Newcomb — American astronomer (1835–1909)
- 1838William Henry Perkin — British chemist known for his accidental discovery of the first synthetic dye (1838–1907)
- 1843Gabriel Tarde — French sociologist (1843–1904)
- 1863Gabriele D'Annunzio — Italian writer, poet, playwright, soldier and politician (1863-1938)
- 1863Vladimir Vernadsky — Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist, one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and of radiogeology
- 1877Wilhelm Frick — German Nazi Party politician (1877–1946)
- 1878Gemma Galgani — Italian saint (1878-1903)
- 1881Väinö Tanner — Finnish politician, Prime Minister of Finland (1881–1966)
- 1889Vaslav Nijinsky — Polish-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
- 1905Takashi Shimura — Japanese actor (1905–1982)
- 1910Masayoshi Ōhira — Japanese politician (1910-1980)
- 1911Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz — 56th President of Mexico
Deaths · 57
- 417(Julian date)Innocent I — early medieval pope (???-417)
- 604(Julian date)Gregory I — 6th-century Roman Pope, theologian and Church Father, Catholic and Orthodox saint, 64th Bishop of Rome and Doctor of the Church
- 969Emperor Muzong of Liao — emperor of the Liao Dynasty
- 1022(Julian date)Symeon the New Theologian — Christian saint, monk, and theologian
- 1160(Julian date)Al-Muqtafi — Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad and poet
- 1316(Julian date)Stefan Dragutin — King of Serbia from 1276 to 1282 and King of Syrmia from 1282 to 1316
- 1374(Julian date)Go-Kōgon — Emperor of Japan
- 1539(Julian date)Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire — English diplomat and politician of the Tudor era (1477-1539)
- 1699Peder Griffenfeld — Danish politician (1635–1699)
- 1832Friedrich Kuhlau — Danish composer
- 1872Zeng Guofan — Chinese politician and military commander (1811–1872)
- 1885Próspero Fernández Oreamuno — Costa Rican politician (1834-1885)
- 1898Zachris Topelius — Finnish-Swedish author, poet, historian, professor and rector of Helsinki University (1818–1898)
- 1914George Westinghouse — American inventor and businessman (1846–1914)
- 1916Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach — Austrian writer (1830–1916)
- 1925Sun Yat-sen — Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
- 1929Asa Griggs Candler — American mayor and businessman (1851-1929)
- 1935Mihajlo Pupin — Serbian-American physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist (1858–1935)
- 1942William Henry Bragg — British scientist (1862–1942)
- 1943
- 1946Ferenc Szálasi — Hungarian fascist politician, executed for war crimes (1897-1946)
- 1946Bunji Suzuki — Japanese politician and labor activist
- 1955Charlie Parker — American jazz saxophonist (1920–1955)
- 1955Theodor Plievier — German writer (1892-1955)
- 1957Josephine Hull — American stage and film actress (1877-1957)
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