Daily Calendar – March 19
3/19/2026
The 79th day of the year. 287 days remain until the end of the year.
Ecclesiastical Calendar
Hieromartyr Dositheos, Metropolitan of Kutaisi (Tsereteli, 1820); the 42 Martyrs of Amorium: Constantine, Aetios, Theophilos, Theodoros, Melissenes, Callistos, Bassos, Patrick and others with them (845); the Finding of the Precious Cross and the Holy Nails by Queen Helen in Jerusalem (326); Venerable Martyrs Konon and his son Konon (270–275); Venerable Arkadios of Cyprus (361).
Born:
1593 — Georges de La Tour, French painter.
1776 — Vasily Tropinin, Russian painter (d. 1857).
1812 — David Livingstone, Scottish explorer of Africa and missionary (d. 1893).
1816 — Ekaterine Dadiani, the last queen of the Principality of Samegrelo (d. 1882).
1901 — Shota Managadze, film director (d. 1977).
1909 — Kote Daushvili, film actor (d. 1980).
1929 — Lennart Meri, former President of Estonia.
1943 — Nodar Managadze, film director.
1963 — Nino Ananiashvili, ballerina.
Died:
1916 — Vasily Surikov, painter.
1930 — Arthur Balfour, British Prime Minister.
1962 — Vasily Stalin, son of Joseph Stalin, pilot and general.
Events:
721 BC — A solar eclipse was recorded for the first time in Babylon.
1898 — The museum named after Emperor Alexander III was opened in St. Petersburg.
1913 — The opera Boris Godunov by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky was performed in full for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Notable Days:
Submariners’ Day.
Italy — Feast of Saint Joseph.