Today
Wednesday March 4 2026
- Day of the year
- 63/ 365
- Week
- 102,026
- Days left
- 30217%
- Moon
- 98%Waning gibbous
Today is Wednesday, March 4, 2026. It is day 63 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 302 remain, and 17% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 10.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- March 8International Women's Day
- March 20International Day of Happiness
- March 21International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Lucius IPope and bishop of Rome from 253 to 254
- Saint CasimirPolish and Lithuanian prince (1458–1484)
- Yuri II of VladimirGrand Prince of Vladimir (1188-1238)
- Umberto III, Count of SavoyCount of Maurienne, Count of Savoy, Marquess in Italia and Blessed
- Adrian of Nicomediasaint martyred in 306
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Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 06:25
- Sunset
- 17:50
- Length of day
- 11h 26m+3 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 12:08
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Winter
began on December 21, 2025
Next season
Spring — 16 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 gibbous
Illumination : 98%
Moon age : 15.2 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
1152
Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany. Wikipedia
1461
Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV. Wikipedia
1665
English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands, marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Wikipedia
1789
In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect. Wikipedia
1790
France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility. Wikipedia
1848
Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia. Wikipedia
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1977
The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in Bucharest, Romania. Wikipedia
1980
Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister. Wikipedia
2009
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002. Wikipedia
2018
Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved. Wikipedia
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Births and deaths
Born on this day March 4
- 1634Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Polish philosopher (died 1689)
- 1678Antonio Vivaldi, Italian violinist and composer (died 1741)
- 1702Jack Sheppard, English criminal (died 1724)
- 1889Pearl White, American actress (died 1938)
- 1898Georges Dumézil, French philologist and academic (died 1986)
- 1913John Garfield, American actor and singer (died 1952)
- 1925Paul Mauriat, French conductor and composer (died 2006)
- 1954François Fillon, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Franceturns 72 years
Died on this day March 4
- 1371Jeanne d'Évreux, queen consort of France (born 1310)aged 61 years
- 1615Hans von Aachen, German painter and educator (born 1552)aged 63 years
- 1832Jean-François Champollion, French philologist and scholar (born 1790)aged 42 years
- 1852Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, novelist, and playwright (born 1809)aged 43 years
- 1941Ludwig Quidde, German activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)aged 83 years
- 1952Charles Scott Sherrington, English neurophysiologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1857)aged 95 years
- 2008Gary Gygax, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (born 1938)aged 70 years
- 2011Simon van der Meer, Dutch-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)aged 86 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 06:25 and sets at 17:50, giving 11h 26m of daylight — 3 minutes more than yesterday. It has been winter since December 21, 2025; spring opens in 16 days, on March 20, 2026 (March equinox).
The moon is waning gibbous, 98% illuminated. The next full moon falls on April 2, 2026 and the next new moon on March 19, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches March 4 to Lucius I, Saint Casimir and Yuri II of Vladimir.
No United Nations international day falls on March 4. The next one on the calendar is International Women's Day, on March 8.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany (1152); Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV (1461). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Kazimierz Łyszczyński was born on March 4, 1634; Jeanne d'Évreux died on March 4, 1371.
296 days remain until Christmas and 303 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — March 4 falls under the sign of Pisces.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 17%
- of the year elapsed
- 296
- until Christmas
- 303
- until New Year
- 727
- 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