March 1st, 1216

Born on March 1st, 1216

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 295,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 7 days, exactly on August 2nd, 2026, people who were born on March 1st, 1216 will be 296,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on March 1st?

March 1st, 1992

A Bosnian-Serb wedding procession was attacked in Sarajevo, resulting in what is widely considered the first casualty of the Bosnian War.

March 1st, 2014

A group of knife-wielding terrorists attacked passengers at Kunming railway station in Kunming, China, leaving 31 victims dead and more than 140 others injured.

March 1st, 2008

The Armenian military and national police attacked a crowd of people protesting the results of the recent election in Yerevan, leading to 10 deaths and over 100 arrests.

March 1st, 1973

Pink Floyd's critically acclaimed album The Dark Side of the Moon was released.

March 1st, 1958

Archbishop of Chicago Samuel Stritch was appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith, becoming the first American member of the Roman Curia.

March 1st, 1950

In a trial lasting less than 90 minutes, German–British physicist Klaus Fuchs was convicted of violating the Official Secrets Act by supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.

March 1st, 1944

World War II: American and Australian troops won the Battle of Sio against Japanese forces as part of the New Guinea campaign.

March 1st, 1936

Hoover Dam, straddling the Arizona–Nevada border on the Colorado River, was completed.

March 1st, 1921

The Australian cricket team, led by Warwick Armstrong, became the first team to complete a whitewash in the Ashes, an achievement that would not be repeated for 86 years.

March 1st, 1896

French physicist Henri Becquerel discovered the principle of radioactive decay when he exposed photographic plates to uranium salts.

March 1st, 1872

Yellowstone National Park (bison pictured), located mostly in the present-day U.S. state of Wyoming, was established by President Ulysses S. Grant.

March 1st, 1870

Paraguayan War: Marshal Francisco Solano López died at the Battle of Cerro Corá.

March 1st, 1869

The Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev (pictured) finished his design of the first periodic table.

March 1st, 1811

Muhammad Ali Pasha, governor of Ottoman Egypt, killed the Mamluk leaders of Cairo and seized power.

March 1st, 1805

Samuel Chase, the only Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to be impeached, was acquitted by the Senate.

Public holidays on March 1st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Southeastern Europe celebration of the beginning of spring) which are celebrated on March 1st.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1216 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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