About March 15
March 15, 2024 is the 75th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 291 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 320 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
March 15: More About This Day
In the Roman calendar, March 15 was known as the Ides of March.
What Happened On March 15
- 44 BC –Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
- 221 –Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty.
- 280 –Sun Hao of Eastern Wu surrenders to Sima Yan which began the Jin Dynasty.
- 933 –After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
- 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'état never takes place.
- 1888 –Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
- 1906 –Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
- 1917 –Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.
- 1926 –The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
- 1931 –SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
- 1939 –Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
- 1943 –World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
- 1945 –World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
- 1952 –In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24 hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
- 1965 –President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress “We shall overcome” while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
- 1990 –Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
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