Holidays on March 12, 2025: name days, signs

Today, March 12, 2025, is World Pineapple Day. There are 294 days left until the New Year.

March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 294 days left in the year.

What are the holidays in Ukraine and the world

• • World Pineapple Day

 

• • World Day Against Cyber ​​Censorship

 

• • World Glaucoma Day

 

What events took place on March 12?

• • 1169 - the capture and plunder of Kyiv by a coalition of 11 princes.

 

• • 1229 - the end of the Sixth Crusade: according to the peace treaty between the Sultan of Egypt al-Kamil and the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem were handed over to the Crusaders in exchange for peace.

 

• • 1241 - Mongol troops led by Khan Subedei storm the fortified Veretsky Pass in the Carpathians.

 

• • 1365 - Duke Rudolf IV founds the University of Vienna.

 

• • 1496 - Jews are expelled from Syria.

 

• • 1633 - King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Władysław IV, confirms Petro Mohyla as Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus'.

 

• • 1812 - An earthquake strikes Caracas, destroying the city and killing 20 people.

 

• • 1913 - Canberra becomes the capital of Australia.

 

• • 1930 - Mahatma Gandhi and his supporters embark on the Salt March, demonstratively and nonviolently breaking the colonial salt monopoly of the Raj.

 

• • 1934 - as a result of a coup d'état in the Republic of Estonia, an authoritarian regime led by Konstantin Päts is introduced in the country.

 

• • 1938 - Hitler's troops cross the German-Austrian border. The "Anschluss" of both states is declared.

 

• • 1947 - US President Harry Truman puts forward a foreign policy program according to which America is ready to provide assistance to all "free peoples" against the threat of communism. Turkey and Greece received urgent assistance.

 

• • 1968 - Mauritius gains independence.

 

• • 1989 - Tim Berners-Lee proposes a global hypertext project, now known as the World Wide Web.

 

• • 1992 - Ukraine establishes diplomatic relations with Cuba.

 

• • 1994 - The first 32 women were ordained as priests of the Church of England at Bristol Cathedral.

 

• • 1999 - The Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary join NATO.

 

• • 2000 - Pope John Paul II publicly apologizes for the sins of the Catholic Church before humanity.

 

• • 2003 - WHO issues a global alert about the SARS-CoV coronavirus outbreak.

 

Who was born on March 12?

• • 1945 — Oleksandr Skipalsky, general, director of the Institute of Geopolitics and Economic Research.

 

• • 1949 — Valery Matyukhin, artistic director of the Kyiv Camerata ensemble.

 

What are today's birthdays: Vladimir, Grigory, Dmitry, Ivan, Konstantin, Alexander, Semen, Sergey.

Folk signs and traditions for March 12

• • There is a lot of frost on the trees - June will be rainy.

 

• • The real spring warmth has already set in - summer will be miserable.

 

• • The fog descends - it will be sunny, it rises - it will rain.

 

• • A horse neighs loudly in the barn - expect happiness.