March 8th, 1526

Born on March 8th, 1526

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 182,000 days old!

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What happened on March 8th?

March 8th, 2014

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, with aircraft debris subsequently washing ashore a few years later in the Indian Ocean.

March 8th, 2017

The Azure Window, a limestone natural arch in Gozo, Malta, collapsed during a stor

March 8th, 1983

Cold War: In a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, U.S. president Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as an "evil empire".

March 8th, 1979

Images taken by Voyager 1 proved the existence of volcanoes on Io (pictured), a moon of Jupiter.

March 8th, 1978

BBC Radio 4 began broadcasting Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other formats.

March 8th, 1966

Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar topped by a statue of Lord Nelson in Dublin, Ireland, was severely damaged by a bomb.

March 8th, 1963

The Ba'ath Party came to power in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council for the Revolutionary Command.

March 8th, 1924

Three violent explosions at a coal mine near Castle Gate, Utah, killed all 171 miners working there.

March 8th, 1919

During the Egyptian Revolution, British authorities arrested rebel leader Saad Zaghloul and exiled him to Malta.

March 8th, 1910

French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot's licence.

March 8th, 1736

Nader Shah, the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, was crowned Shah of Iran.

March 8th, 1702

Anne (pictured) became the Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, succeeding her brother-in-law William III.

March 8th, 1658

After a devastating defeat in the Second Northern War, King Frederick III of Denmark–Norway was forced to give up nearly half his Danish territory to Sweden to save the remainder.

March 8th, 1655

The court of Northampton County, Virginia, issued a ruling that made John Casor the first person of African descent in the Thirteen Colonies to be declared a slave for life as a result of a civil suit.

March 8th, 1576

A Spanish colonial officer wrote a letter to King Philip II containing the first known mention of the Maya ruins of Copán in present-day Honduras.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 8th

Same year
Born in 1526

64

Luis de León

Spanish poet and Augustinian friar (1527-1591)

*November 30th, 1526, Belmonte †August 23rd, 1591, Madrigal de las Altas Torres

56

Catherine Jagellon

Queen of Sweden

*November 1st, 1526, Kraków †September 16th, 1583, Stockholm Palace

72

Heinrich Rantzau

German humanist writer, astrologer, and astrological writer

*March 11th, 1526, Steinburg †December 31st, 1598, Schloss Breitenburg

42

Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

*September 26th, 1526, Zweibrücken †June 11th, 1569, Nexon

80

Martin Crusius

German historian and classical philologist

*September 19th, 1526, Gräfenberg †February 14th, 1607, Tübingen

56

Akechi Mitsuhide

16th-century samurai; assassin of Oda Nobunaga

*January 1st, 1526, Mino Province †July 2nd, 1582, Settsu Province

66

Christian Schütz

German theologian

*January 1st, 1526, Waldkappel †January 10th, 1592, Dresden

59

Muretus

French philosopher

*April 22nd, 1526, Limoges †June 4th, 1585, Rome

18

Elizabeth of Austria

Austrian princess, Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania (1543-1545)

*July 9th, 1526, Linz †June 15th, 1545, Vilnius

77

Dorothy Stafford

English noblewoman and courtier (1526-1604)

*October 1st, 1526, England †September 22nd, 1604

81

Johann Stromer

*July 22nd, 1526, Auerbach in der Oberpfalz †October 11th, 1607, Jena

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 8th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, International Women's Day, and its related observances) which are celebrated on March 8th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1526 is a normal year and no leap year.

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