Today
Sunday March 1 2026
- Day of the year
- 60/ 365
- Week
- 92,026
- Days left
- 30516%
- Moon
- 96%Waxing gibbous
Today is Sunday, March 1, 2026. It is day 60 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 305 remain, and 16% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 9.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- March 3World Wildlife Day
- March 8International Women's Day
- March 20International Day of Happiness
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Saint Davidpatron saint of Wales
- Eudokia of HeliopolisSamarian martyr
- Albinus of AngersFrench abbot and bishop
- Senán mac GeirrcinnIrish saint
- RudesindGalician bishop and abbot
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Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 06:29
- Sunset
- 17:47
- Length of day
- 11h 18m+3 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 12:08
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Winter
began on December 21, 2025
Next season
Spring — 19 days, March 20, 2026 (March equinox)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Memorial Day — May 25, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Waxing gibbous
Illumination : 96%
Moon age : 12.2 days
- Next full moon
- March 3, 2026
- Next new moon
- March 19, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Pisces
until March 21, 2026 — Aries
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
293
Emperor Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesars. This is considered the beginning of the Tetrarchy, known as the Quattuor Principes Mundi ("Four Rulers of the World"). Wikipedia
1815
Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba. Wikipedia
1872
Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park. Wikipedia
1896
Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War. Wikipedia
1919
March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule. Wikipedia
1932
Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son Charles Jr is kidnapped from his home in East Amwell, New Jersey. His body would not be found until May 12. Wikipedia
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1941
World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers. Wikipedia
1950
Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data. Wikipedia
1954
Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States. Wikipedia
1966
Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface. Wikipedia
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Births and deaths
Born on this day March 1
- 1456Vladislaus II of Hungary (died 1516)
- 1547Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher and lexicographer (died 1628)
- 1760François Buzot, French lawyer and politician (died 1794)
- 1769François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (died 1796)
- 1810Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (died 1849)
- 1876Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman (died 1942)
- 1922Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
- 1956Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuanian politician, 8th President of Lithuaniaturns 70 years
Died on this day March 1
- 965Leo VIII, pope of the Catholic Churchaged 50 years
- 1383Amadeus VI, count of Savoy (born 1334)aged 49 years
- 1510Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (born 1450)aged 60 years
- 1773Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect, designed the Palace of Caserta (born 1700)aged 73 years
- 1841Claude-Victor Perrin, Duc de Belluno, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (born 1764)aged 77 years
- 1911Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)aged 59 years
- 1991Edwin H. Land, American scientist and businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (born 1909)aged 82 years
- 1995Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1946)aged 49 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 06:29 and sets at 17:47, giving 11h 18m of daylight — 3 minutes more than yesterday. It has been winter since December 21, 2025; spring opens in 19 days, on March 20, 2026 (March equinox).
The moon is waxing gibbous, 96% illuminated. The next full moon falls on March 3, 2026 and the next new moon on March 19, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches March 1 to Saint David, Eudokia of Heliopolis and Albinus of Angers.
No United Nations international day falls on March 1. The next one on the calendar is World Wildlife Day, on March 3.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Emperor Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesars (293); Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba (1815). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Vladislaus II of Hungary was born on March 1, 1456; Leo VIII died on March 1, 965.
299 days remain until Christmas and 306 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — March 1 falls under the sign of Pisces.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 16%
- of the year elapsed
- 299
- until Christmas
- 306
- until New Year
- 730
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26