1 Mairch

The 1st o Mairch is the 60t day o the year (61st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 305 days ti come.

 Events 
 1565 - The ceety o Rio de Janeiro is foondit.
 1803 - Ohio becomes the 17t state o the Unitit States.
 1809 - The Illinois territory is separatit frae the Indiana territory.
 1815 - Napoleon returns tae Fraunce frae exile on Elba.
 1867 - Nebraska becomes the 37t state o the Unitit States.
 1872 - Yellowstone Naitional Pairk is creatit in the Northwastren Unitit States.
 1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
 1910 - An avalanche buries a Great Northern Railwey train in Wellington, Washington, Unitit States, killin 96 fowk.
 1919 - The Mairch 1 Movement in Korea stairts.
 1925 - The shillin becomes the currency o Austrick.
 1936 - The Hoover Dam, on the mairch o Arizona an Californie, is completit.
 1950 - Chiang Kai-shek declares the Republic o Cheenae on Taiwan.
 1954 - The Unitit States tests a Hydrogen Bomb on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.
 1979 - In a referendum in Scotland, maist voters support devolution, but it is rejectit acause o a law turn-oot. A seemilar proposal in Wales is defeatit.
 1989 - Beer becomes legal in Iceland.
 1994 - Walvis Bay is gien tae Namibie bi Sooth Africae.
 2000 - Tarja Halonen becomes the first female Preses o Finland.
 2006 - The 1,000,000t airticle o the Inglis Wikipaedia is published, on Jordanhill Railway Station in Scotland.
 2006 - The Senedd biggin, for the Welsh Assembly in Cairdiff, is opened bi Queen Elizabeth II.
 2017 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Finland.
 2018 - Carles Puigdemont ends his bid tae be reinstatit as Preses o Catalonie.
 2020 - Chynges o leadership: Muhyiddin Yassin replaces Mahathir Mohamad as Prime meenister o Malaysie; Luis Lacalle Pou becomes Preses o Uruguay.
 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Scotland's first recordit case o COVID-19 is confirmed.
 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Armenie, the Czech Republic an the Dominican Republic record thair first cases o COVID-19.

 Births 
 40 - Martial, Roman writer (d. 102)
 1445 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian penter (d. 1510)
 1683 - Caroline o Ansbach, Queen Consort o Great Breetain an Ireland (d. 1737)
 1810 - Frédéric Chopin, Pols componer (d. 1849)
 1892 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (d. 1927)
 1904 - Glenn Miller, American muisicker (d. 1944)
 1910 - David Niven, Inglis actor (d. 1983)
 1922 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime meenister o Israel (d. 1995) 
 1927 - Harry Belafonte, American sangster an actor
 1934 - Tommy McCulloch, Scots fitbawer (d. 2016)
 1939 - Tommy Bryceland, Scots fitbawer (d. 2016)
 1944 - Roger Daltrey, Inglis muisicker (The Who)
 1947 - Alan Thicke, Canadian actor an sangwriter (d. 2016)
 1949 - George Connelly, Scots fitbawer
 1952 - Martin O'Neill, Northren Erse fitbaw manager
 1954 - Ron Howard, American film director
 1955 - Denis Mukwege, Congolese gynaecologist an Nobel Peace Prize laureate
 1956 - Dalia Grybauskaite, Preses o Lithuanie
 1959 - Nick Griffin, Inglis politeecian
 1969 - Javier Bardem, Spainyie actor
 1978 - Jensen Ackles, American actor an director
 1983 - Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress
 1987 - Kesha, American sangster
 1993 - David Smith, Scots fitbawer
 1994 - Justin Bieber, Canadian sangster
 1996 - Ye Shiwen, Cheenese soummer

 Daiths 
 589 - Saunt Dauvit, Patron Saunt o Wales
 1546 - George Wishart, Scots releegious reformer an Protestant mairtyr (b. 1513)
 1672 - Marie Thérèse o Fraunce (b. 1667)
 1792 - Leopold II, Haly Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
 1911 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist (b. 1852)
 1938 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian jurnalist an politeecian (b. 1863)
 2014 - Alain Resnais, French film director (b. 1922)
 2019 - Zhores Alferov, Belaroushie-Roushie pheesicist (b. 1930)

 Halidays 
 Whuppity Scoorie
 St. David's Day, Naitional Day o Wales
 Mairch 1 Movement Day (Sooth Korea)
 Independence Day (Bosnie an Herzegovinae)
 Balearic Islands Day

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Category:Days o the year