Holidays on this day
- International Customer Day
- Submariner's Day in Russia
- Syringe Day
- International Master's Day
- First day without a hat
- Chocolate Caramel Day
- Poultry Day
- Let's Laugh Day
- Absolutely Incredible Children's Day
Significant events in history
1474 Venice has adopted a law on the protection of copyright for inventions.
1899 The first ambulance station in St. Petersburg was opened.
1906 By decree of Emperor Nicholas II, the submarine forces of the Russian fleet were created.
1918 In the United States, the Standard Time Act was adopted and the division into time zones was approved.
1922 In Moscow, a radio transmitting tower was put into operation on Shabolovka.
Folk calendar
Constantine circles
Constantine is one of the 42 martyrs commemorated on this day. In Rus', on this day it was considered necessary to trample the snow around wells so that dirty water would not flow into them. To do this, they were walked around in circles. The first circle was trampled by the birthday boy – a boy named Konstantin.
The Russian people highly valued well water and wrote songs, proverbs, and sayings about it.
Birdwatching on Konstantin. They said that on this day a white stork always arrives. But the swallow could be delayed on its way – and therefore it was “lured” to the villages so that it would bring spring sooner. But the heat sometimes lingered—and the woodpecker reported this. If he started knocking on wood in March, it foreshadowed long cold weather.
Name day on this day
Arkady, Elena, Konstantin, Maxim, Marfa, Fedor, Julian.
Source: Calend.ru.
