March 27th, 1316

Born on March 27th, 1316

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 259,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 557 days, exactly on February 3rd, 2028, people who were born on March 27th, 1316 will be 260,000 days old!

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What happened on March 27th?

March 27th, 1993

Jiang Zemin succeeded Yang Shangkun to become President of the People's Republic of China.

March 27th, 1625

Charles I became King of England, Scotland and Ireland.

March 27th, 2015

Himeji Castle, the largest and most visited Japanese castle, re-opened after five years of restoration work.

March 27th, 2009

A failure of the dam holding Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Tangerang, Indonesia, caused floods that killed at least 100 people.

March 27th, 2020

North Macedonia became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

March 27th, 2002

Second Intifada: A suicide bomber killed around 30 Israeli civilians and injured about 140 others in Netanya, triggering Operation Defensive Shield, a large-scale counter-terrorist military incursion into the West Bank.

March 27th, 1999

NATO bombing of Yugoslavia: A U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth aircraft was shot down by a Yugoslav Army unit.

March 27th, 1998

The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug sildenafil (chemical structure pictured), better known by the trade name Viagra, as the first treatment approved in the United States for erectile dysfunction.

March 27th, 1981

The Solidarity movement in Poland staged a warning strike, the largest in the history of the Eastern Bloc, in which at least 12 million Poles walked off their jobs for four hours.

March 27th, 1980

Brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt failed in their attempt to corner the world silver market, causing panic in commodity and futures exchanges.

March 27th, 1977

Two Boeing 747 airliners collided on a foggy runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the island of Tenerife, killing 583 people in the worst aircraft accident in aviation history

March 27th, 1976

The Washington Metro (rolling stock pictured), the second-busiest rapid transit system in the U.S., opened to commuters.

March 27th, 1958

Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, assumed the office of premier.

March 27th, 1945

World War II: The United States Army Air Forces began Operation Starvation, laying naval mines in many of Japan's vital water routes and ports to disrupt enemy shipping.

March 27th, 1941

World War II: A group of Serbian-nationalist officers of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force carried out a coup d'état after Yugoslavia joined the Axis powers.

Public holidays on March 27th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on March 27th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1316 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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