March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of seven months that are 31 days long. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the Northern Hemisphere for March.
March symbols: The birthstones of March are aquamarine and bloodstone. These stones symbolize courage. Its birth flower is the daffodil. The zodiac signs for the month of March are Pisces (until March 20) and Aries (March 21 onwards).
Historical Events for March, 1881
Day of Week 13th » Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
Day of Week 26th » Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
Day of Week 27th » Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of Teetotalism by the Salvation Army.
Famous Birthdays on March in 1881
4th » Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian activist (d. 1924)
4th » Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American lawyer and author (d. 1965)
4th » Richard C. Tolman, American physicist and chemist (d. 1948)
10th » Thomas Quinlan (impresario) known as Thomas Quinlan, English businessman (d. 1951)
12th » Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist (d. 1923)
17th » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
19th » Edith Nourse Rogers, American politician (d. 1960)