March 15

is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). There are 291 days remaining.

In the Roman calendar March 15 was known as the Ides of March.

Events

44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
221 AD - Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han, claiming his legitimate succession to the Han dynasty.
351 - Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
1311 - Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent.
1672 - Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
1781 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse - Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
1783 - In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat never takes place.
1820 - Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
1827 - The University of Toronto is chartered.
1848 - Revolution breaks out in Pest. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
1873 - Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity is founded at Massachusetts Agricultural College
1877 - The first Test cricket match begins, between England and Australia.
1892 - Liverpool Football Club founded by John Houlding
1906 - Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
1909 - Selfridges department store opens in London.
1916 - President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
1917 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates himself and his son from the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.
1919 - The American Legion forms in Paris.
1922 - After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
1939 - World War II: Nazi troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
1943 - World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov - the Germans retook the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino - Allied aircraft bomb the Nazi-held monastery and stage an assault.
1952 - In Cilaos, Réunion, 73 inches (1,870mm) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
1953 - World contact day
1956 - The Broadway musical My Fair Lady opens in New York City.
1961 - South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
1963 - Victor Feguer, a Federal prisoner, is put to death at the Fort Madison, Iowa prison. This would be the last execution of a Federal prisoner until the execution of Timothy McVeigh in 2001.
1970 - The Expo '70 world's fair opens in Osaka, Japan.
1988 - Publication of Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind theory.
1988 - The Halabja poison gas attack of the Iran-Iraq War begins.
1989 - The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.
1990 - Gulf War: Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
1990 - The Soviet Union announces that Lithuania's declaration of independence is invalid.
1990 - The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureş begin on the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
1991 - Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.
1998 - Titanic defeats Star Wars for the #1 place in the North American domestic box office, grossing $471 million.
2004 - Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed.

Births

1455 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1532)
1591 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1660)
1638 - Shunzhi Emperor of China
1666 - George Bähr, German architect (d. 1738)
1684 - Francesco Durante, Italian composer (d. 1755)
1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)
1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)
1779 - Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1848)
1813 - John Snow, English physician (d. 1858)
1830 - Paul Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914)
1830 - Élisée Reclus, French geographer and anarchist (d. 1905)
1835 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (d. 1916)
1854 - Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1917)
1865 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (d. 1935)
1882 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953)
1890 - Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
1897 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (d. 1986)
1905 - Berthold Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg, German lawyer and Nazi opponent (d. 1944)
1907 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
1912 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (d. 1982)
1913 - MacDonald Carey, American actor (d. 1994)
1913 - Lew Wasserman, American Hollywood agent and studio executive (d. 2002)
1914 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)
1915 - Joe E. Ross, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)
1916 - Harry James, American musician and band leader (d. 1983)
1918 - Richard Ellmann, American biographer (d. 1987)
1919 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (d. 2002)
1920 - Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
1920 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1924 - Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997)
1926 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (d. 1983)
1927 - Stanisław Kania, Polish politician
1927 - Carl Smith, American singer
1930 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Alan Bean, American astronaut
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1934 - Aldo Giorgini, Italian artist
1935 - Judd Hirsch, American actor
1935 - Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist
1936 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d. 1986)
1940 - Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
1941 - Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1943 - David Cronenberg, Canadian film director
1944 - Sly Stone, American musician
1945 - Mark J. Green, American lawyer, author, and public official
1946 - Bobby Bonds, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1947 - Ry Cooder, American guitarist
1948 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
1948 - Kate Bornstein (born Albert Bornstein), American transgender author and gender theorist
1950 - Jørgen Olsen, Danish singer and Eurovision Song Contest winner
1954 - Craig Wasson, American actor
1955 - Dee Snider, American singer
1956 - Clay Matthews, American football player
1957 - Park Overall, American actress
1957 - David Silverman, American animator (The Simpsons)
1959 - Harold Baines, American baseball player
1959 - Fabio Lanzoni, Italian model
1961 - Ervin Nemeth, Hungarian educator, author, and translator
1962 - Sananda Maitreya (formerly Terence Trent D'Arby), American-born singer
1963 - Bret Michaels, American musician (Poison)
1967 - Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist
1968 - Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar Ray)
1968 - Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer
1971 - Penny Lancaster, English model and celebrity
1972 - Mark Hoppus, American musician ((+44), blink-182)
1974 - Robert Fick, American baseball player
1975 - Eva Longoria, American actress
1975 - Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
1975 - Darcy Tucker, Canadian Hockey Player
1976 - Jennifer 8. Lee, American journalist
1977 - Joe Hahn, American musician (Linkin Park)
1978 - Sid Wilson, American musician (Slipknot)
1981 - Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer
1981 - Young Buck, American rapper
1982 - Emily Kennard, American actress
1983 - Sean Biggerstaff, Scottish actor
1985 - Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
1989 - Caitlin Wachs, American actress
1992 - Sosie Bacon, American actress

Deaths

44 BC - Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)
220 - Cao Cao, King of Wei
493 - Odoacer, King of Italy (murdered) (b. 435)
1311 - Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens
1416 - John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
1575 - Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)
1670 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597)
1673 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (b. 1615)
1701 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
1711 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
1820 - St Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751
1842 - Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760)
1849 - Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
1891 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
1891 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
1898 - Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)
1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
1941 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
1957 - Ernst Nobs, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1886)
1959 - Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)
1962 - Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1966 - Abe Saperstein, American basketball executive (b. 1902)
1970 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (b. 1897)
1972 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)
1975 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1900)
1977 - Antonino Rocca, Professional wrestler
1983 - Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)
1990 - Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)
1990 - Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
1994 - Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (b. 1925)
1997 - Gail Davis, American actress (b. 1925)
1997 - Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (b. 1906)
1998 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
2001 - Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
2003 - Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)
2004 - Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)
2004 - John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
2005 - Bob Bellear, the first Indigenous Australian judge (b. 1944)
2006 - George Rallis, former Greek Prime Minister (b. 1918)

Fictional events

44 BC - Deaths of Xena and Gabrielle by Crucifixion
1972 - Worst day ever in The Fairly Oddparents
1973 - In an alternate timeline in Back to the Future Part II, George McFly murdered by Biff Tannen.
1986 - Beginning of The Pushcart War
2337 - Discovery of Yuggoth
3019 T.A. - Battle of the Pelennor Fields (The Lord of the Rings)
C.E. 56 - Birth of Fllay Allster, daughter of Earth Alliance Vice-Minister George Allster, from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.

Saints of the day

St.Longinus, Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus on the cross. ^*

Holidays and observances

In the Roman calendar, the Ides of March.
Turkey buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio.
International Day Against Police Brutality
For corporations in the United States that use the calendar year as their fiscal year, the date on which the corporation must file its corporate income tax return
Constitution Day in Belarus
National holiday in Hungary celebrating the 1848 Revolution. (See also Public holidays in Hungary)
World Consumer Rights Day ^*
In Japan, Hounen Matsuri

Liturgical feasts

External links

March 14 - March 16 - February 15 - April 15 -- listing of all days

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Events

Births

Deaths

Fictional events

Saints of the day

Holidays and observances

Liturgical feasts

External links