12 March: the main events of this day

March 12 - for someone ordinary everyday day, and for some - a big holiday: birthday, birthday, professional worker day and some other significant date. Let's figure out why we can have fun on this day. Or maybe some of you have a birthday party today, but you do not know?

Birthday

The man, born on March 12, by the sign of the Zodiac - Pisces. The stars say that people born on this day have a mysterious character, are distinguished by hospitality and excellent intuition. Negative features of people of this sign are unreliability, susceptibility to excessive depressive states, excessive anxiety. In general, the stars promise a quiet happy life with a small blotch of sadness.

Name days

On March 12, the holiday can be celebrated by people named by the following names: Makar, Stepan, Timothy, Julian, Julius, Jacob, Cassian. Relying on the Orthodox calendar, the Day of the Angel can also be celebrated by Peter, Victoria and Michael. According to the old tradition, it is with these names that babies born on this day should be called. It is believed that if you give the child the name of the patron, then the angel will always be there, protecting from evil throughout his life.

On March 12, the Orthodox Church honors the Monk Procopius of Decapolis, so people with this name also have a name day.

Citizens born in this day are endowed with such traits of character as reasonableness, charisma, thoroughness in everything and the ability to see the essence of things.

March 12 - a holiday of prison officials

In Russia, this day is considered a professional holiday of professionals working in the penal system. March 12, 1879 the Russian Emperor Alexander II signed a decree on the establishment of the prison department. This document laid the foundation for the formation of a unified state system for the enforcement of punishments in our state.

People working in the penitentiary system celebrate a professional holiday throughout the country. On this day they are dedicated to various gala concerts and events. State and departmental awards are handed to distinguished workers, congratulations to veterans. Also on March 12, with grief, they recollect the employees of the penitentiary system who died while performing their official duties.

Famous people born on this day

Who was born on March 12 from celebrities? You can mention many famous people. March 12 were born:

• World-famous academician, public figure and thinker, naturalist Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky;
• Famous German director, producer and film actor Alfred Abel;
• Georgian opera singer Zurab Sotkilava;
• Writer-playwright, humorist, screenwriter, TV host and actor Grigory Gorin;
• Soviet director Andrei Smirnov;
• Actress and singer from Los Angeles Lisa Minnelli;
• Armenian jazz pianist and composer David Azaryan;
• Soviet and Russian singer Irina Ponarovskaya;
• Russian actor Sergei Selin;
• Russian actress Tatyana Lutaeva;
• Russian choreographer and actor Yegor Druzhinin;
• Russian actress Natalia Antonova;
• Russian actor Kirill Ivanchenko;
• Russian pop singer Alexei Chumakov.

Significant events of this day

March 12 in the history of Russia was marked by the following events:

• 1714: Peter is the first to issue a decree on the establishment of tsifirnyh schools for training;
• 1770: the creation of the English Assembly in St. Petersburg;
• 1798: a decree is issued according to which Old Believers can build churches in all dioceses;
• 1854: France, Turkey and Great Britain concluded the Treaty of Constantinople against Russia;
• 1896: using the device invented by A. Popov , the first radiogram was sent in the world;
• 1899: the first international ice hockey tournament held in our country, held in St. Petersburg;
• 1917: 20 thousandth demonstration of representatives of the Ukrainian public under national flags, held in St. Petersburg;
• 1917: the February Revolution took place in Russia;
• 1918: Moscow becomes the capital of the USSR;
• 1922: the Union of the Transcaucasian Republics is being created;
• 1922: Chechnya declares its independence from the USSR;
• 1940: The Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940. Ends with the signing of a peace treaty between Finland and the USSR;
• 1951: the armed forces of the USSR adopt the Law on the Protection of Peace.

And what events happened on March 12 in the world?

• 1609: Bermuda became a colony of Great Britain;
• 1881: Tunisia becomes the protector of France;
• 1904: the first branch of electric trains in Britain was launched;
• 1912: The Scouting movement is based in the USA;
• 1968: Independence Day of the African Republic of Mauritius;
• 1974: on this day, the apparatus of an automatic space station makes its first landing on the surface of the planet Mars;
• 1999: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join the NATO bloc.

The National Calendar

On March 12, according to the folk calendar, the confessor Prokopius Decapolit, who lived in the 8th century, is remembered. It was believed that from this day on spring comes into its own, the snow begins to melt, the winter roads become deformed and become difficult to pass. On this day, people watched the drop: if she was strong, then they were afraid to go on a long journey and tried to stay at home. A weak drop foreshadows a successful hunt for hunters.

Holidays celebrated on this day abroad

March 12 in China and Taiwan, there is an official holiday - Day of planting trees (Arbor Dey). This is the day of the death of the famous Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen. In his honor in these countries on March 12, activities are held to plant green spaces, as he led the propaganda of greening the territory of the state.