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On March 6, -12: The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.

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The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.

The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC. The title of imperator, originally a military honorific, was usually used alongside caesar, originally a cognomen. When a given Roman is described as becoming emperor in English, it generally reflects his accession as augustus, and later as basileus.

People

Born on March 6

Milo Manheim 2001– American actor (born 2001)
Armando Bacot 2000– American basketball player (born 2000)
Jacob Bertrand 2000– American actor (born 2000)
Ylena In-Albon 1999– Swiss tennis player (born 1999)
Kyle Trask 1998– American football player (born 1998)
Lee Lu-da 1997– South Korean singer and actress (born 1997)
Christian Coleman 1996– American sprinter (born 1996)
Mohamed Magdy 1996– Egyptian footballer (born 1996)
Timo Werner 1996– German footballer (born 1996)
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Josh Hart 1995– American basketball player (born 1995)
Georgi Kitanov 1995– Bulgarian footballer
Marcus Smart 1994– American basketball player (born 1994)
Nicklas Jensen 1993– Danish ice hockey player (born 1993)
Andrés Rentería 1993– Colombian footballer (born 1993)
John Jenkins 1991– American basketball player (born 1991)
Derek Drouin 1990– Canadian track and field athlete
Dwight Buycks 1989– American basketball player (born 1989)
Ray Chen 1989– Taiwanese-Australian violinist (born 1989)

People

Died on March 6

Australian Suicide Australian professional wrestler (1992–2025)
Brian James British guitarist (1951–2025)
Lou Ottens Dutch engineer (1926–2021)
Graham Pink Nurse and whistleblower (1929–2021)
Peter Nicholls Australian literary scholar and critic (1939–2018)
Robert Osborne American film historian and actor (1932–2017)
Nancy Reagan First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989
Sheila Varian American horse breeder (1937–2016)
Fred Craddock American preacher and academic (1928–2015)
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Ram Sundar Das Indian politician (1921–2015)
Enrique "Coco" Vicéns Puerto Rican politician and professional basketball player
Alemayehu Atomsa Ethiopian politician (1964–2014)
Frank Jobe American orthopedic surgeon and co-founder of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic
Sheila MacRae American actress, singer, dancer (1921 - 2014)
Martin Nesbitt American politician from North Carolina (1946–2014)
Manlio Sgalambro Italian philosopher, writer and poet (1924-2014)
Chorão Brazilian singer-songwriter (1970–2013)
Stompin' Tom Connors Canadian singer-songwriter (1936–2013)

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Every March 6 on record

  1. -12 The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.

    Ruler of the Roman Empire

    The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchical head of state of the Roman Empire, starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC. The title of imperator, originally a military honorific, was usually used alongside caesar, originally a cognomen. When a given Roman is described as becoming emperor in English, it generally reflects his accession as augustus, and later as basileus.

  2. 845 The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam.

    Byzantine officials executed by the Abbasids

    The 42 Martyrs of Amorium were a group of Byzantine senior officials taken prisoner by the Abbasid Caliphate in the Sack of Amorium in 838 and executed in 845, after they refused to convert to Islam. They are commemorated by the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church on March 6. Amorium is located at Hisar, Turkey.

  3. 1204 The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.

    1204 battle during the French invasion of Normandy

    The siege of Château Gaillard was a part of Philip II's campaign to conquer John, King of England's continental territories. The French king besieged Château Gaillard, a Norman fortress, for six months. The Anglo-Normans were beaten in the battle and the consequence was the fall of Normandy.

  4. 1323 Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed.

    Agreement resolving disputes between the counties of Zeeland and Flanders

    The Treaty of Paris was signed on March 6, 1323. It established clarity over the following: Count Louis I of Flanders relinquished Flemish claims over the County of Zeeland and acknowledged the Count of Holland, William I, as the Count of Zeeland. William, in turn, agreed to renounce all claims on Flanders.

  5. 1447 Election of Pope Nicholas V following the death of Pope Eugene IV on 23 February 1447.

    The 1447 papal conclave, meeting in the Roman basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, elected Pope Nicholas V to succeed Pope Eugene IV.

  6. 1651 The town of Kajaani, known at the time as Cajanaburg, is founded by Count Per Brahe, the Governor-General of Finland.
  7. 1788 The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
  8. 1820 The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
  9. 1836 Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
  10. 1857 The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7–2 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people.
  11. 1901 An anarchist assassin tries to kill German Emperor Wilhelm II.
  12. 1904 Scottish National Antarctic Expedition: Led by William Speirs Bruce, the Antarctic region of Coats Land is discovered from the Scotia.
  13. 1912 Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 1,800 m.
  14. 1930 International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.
  15. 1943 World War II: Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel launches the Battle of Medenine in an attempt to slow down the British Eighth Army. It fails, and he leaves Africa three days later.
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  1. 1943 World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos, one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army, ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena, leading to its liberation a fortnight later.
  2. 1944 World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb the evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia, destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town.
  3. 1945 World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops. On the same day, Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins.
  4. 1946 Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
  5. 1951 Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
  6. 1953 Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  7. 1957 Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
  8. 1964 Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
  9. 1964 Constantine II becomes the last King of Greece.
  10. 1965 Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
  11. 1967 Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
  12. 1970 An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
  13. 1975 The Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience for the first time by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
  14. 1975 Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
  15. 1984 In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners.

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