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On This Day · The 71st day of the year

March 12

March 12's record stretches 398 years, from 1622 to 2020. Its center of gravity is the 20th century, and politics and nation-building recur.

♓ZodiacPisces ◈BirthstoneAquamarine ❀Birth flowerDaffodil

Pisces is the sign for March 12 — read more on the Pisces page, or see March's birthstone & birth flower.

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on March 12?

March 12 is the 71st day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1622 and 2020. Famous people born on March 12 include Mitt Romney, Liza Minnelli and Takashi Shimura.

Released on March 12

Movies, games, albums & shows

2026

  • Game Solasta II
  • Game Timberborn
  • Game Collector's Cove
  • Game John Carpenter's Toxic Commando
  • Movie Accidental Partners
  • Movie Nawab Cafe

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1622

    Ignatius of Loyola

  2. 1913

    Australia

  3. 1928

    California

  4. 1930

    Mahatma Gandhi

  5. 1947

    Cold War

  6. 1967

    Suharto

  7. 1989

    Tim Berners-Lee

  8. 1993

    North Korea

  9. 2014

    2014 East Harlem gas explosion

  10. 2020

    United States

Famous birthday twins

Born on March 12

Mitt Romney

b. 1947

Liza Minnelli

b. 1946

Takashi Shimura

b. 1905

Hans Knappertsbusch

b. 1888

Gustav Kirchhoff

b. 1824

Peter Harry Carstensen

b. 1947

Sebastian Brendel

b. 1988

Tim Wieskötter

b. 1979

Deaths

  • 2015Terry Pratchett
  • 2014José Policarpo
  • 1957Josephine Hull
  • 1954Marianne Weber
  • 1925Sun Yat-sen
  • 604Pope Gregory I

Holidays & observances

  • —Arbor Day (China)
  • —Arbor Day (Taiwan)
  • —Aztec New Year
  • —Christian feast day: Alphege
  • —Christian feast day: Angela Salawa
  • —Christian feast day: Bernard of Carinola (or of Capua)
  • —Christian feast day: Gorgonius, Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus of Nicomedia
  • —Christian feast day: Mura (McFeredach)

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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