Today
Monday March 16 2026
- Day of the year
- 75/ 365
- Week
- 122,026
- Days left
- 29021%
- Moon
- 7%Waning crescent
Today is Monday, March 16, 2026. It is day 75 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 290 remain, and 21% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 12.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- March 20International Day of Happiness
- March 21International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- March 21World Poetry Day
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Jean de BrébeufJesuit missionary and martyr (1593-1649)
- Julian of Antioch4th-century Christian martyr and saint
- Heribert of CologneArchbishop of Cologne
- José Gabriel BrocheroArgentinian presbyter and saint (1840–1914)
- Abbánsaint
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Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 07:06
- Sunset
- 19:04
- Length of day
- 11h 58m+3 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 13:05
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Winter
began on December 21, 2025
Next season
Spring — 4 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
Waning crescent
Illumination : 7%
Moon age : 27.2 days
- Next full moon
- April 2, 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
1244
Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur. Wikipedia
1802
The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point. Wikipedia
1926
History of rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. Wikipedia
1935
Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm itself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht. Wikipedia
1966
Launch of Gemini 8 with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott. It would perform the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit. Wikipedia
1968
Vietnam War: My Lai massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers are killed by American troops. Wikipedia
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1978
Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time. Wikipedia
1988
Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people. Wikipedia
1995
Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. Wikipedia
2014
Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia. Wikipedia
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Births and deaths
Born on this day March 16
- 1473Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (died 1541)
- 1687Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Frederick William I (died 1757)
- 1750Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (died 1848)
- 1751James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (died 1836)
- 1839Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1907)
- 1911Josef Mengele, German physician, SS captain and mass-murderer (died 1979)
- 1918Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)
- 1959Jens Stoltenberg, Norwegian economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Norway, 13th Secretary General of NATOturns 67 years
Died on this day March 16
- 455Valentinian III, Roman emperor (assassinated; b. 419)aged 36 years
- 1185Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (born 1161)aged 24 years
- 1736Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (born 1710)aged 26 years
- 1914Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)aged 71 years
- 1930Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1870)aged 60 years
- 1935John Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)aged 59 years
- 1940Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)aged 82 years
- 1998Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)aged 80 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 07:06 and sets at 19:04, giving 11h 58m of daylight — 3 minutes more than yesterday. It has been winter since December 21, 2025; spring opens in 4 days, on March 20, 2026 (March equinox).
The moon is a waning crescent, 7% illuminated. The next full moon falls on April 2, 2026 and the next new moon on March 19, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches March 16 to Jean de Brébeuf, Julian of Antioch and Heribert of Cologne.
No United Nations international day falls on March 16. The next one on the calendar is International Day of Happiness, on March 20.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur (1244); The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point (1802). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Henry IV was born on March 16, 1473; Valentinian III died on March 16, 455.
284 days remain until Christmas and 291 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — March 16 falls under the sign of Pisces.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 21%
- of the year elapsed
- 284
- until Christmas
- 291
- until New Year
- 715
- 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