A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on March 15 throughout history.
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The Ides of March (Latin: Idus Martiae, Medieval Latin: Idus Martii) is the day on the Roman calendar marked as the Idus, roughly the midpoint of a month, of Martius, corresponding to 15 March on the...
Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself Emperor of Shu-Han, claiming legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty
Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World
In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy, preventing the threatened coup d'état
The last Russian Tsar Nicholas II, abdicates and nominates his brother, Grand Duke Michael to succeed him [OS Mar 2]
Five research groups announce the discovery of antimatter
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg is a Swedish activist best known for pressuring governments to address climate change and social issues.
"The Godfather," based on the book by Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premieres in NYC (Academy Award for Best Picture 1973)
Billboard published its first popular albums chart, at the time known as Best-Selling Popular Record Albums, in 1945.
The Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 were baseball's first all-professional team, with ten salaried players.
Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American actor and film producer. Ladd found success in film in the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in films noir and Westerns.
American actor Alan Alda (21) weds American classical clarinest and photographer Arlene Weiss (24)
English-American actress Elizabeth Taylor (32) marries for the 5th time to Welsh actor Richard Burton (38); divorce in 1974, remarry in 1975
Odoacer (433 – 15 March 493 AD), also spelled Odovacer or Odovacar, was a barbarian soldier and statesman from the Middle Danube who was an officer of the Roman army and deposed the Western Roman...
The Battle of Riade or Battle of Merseburg was fought between the troops of East Francia under King Henry I and the Magyars at an unidentified location in northern Thuringia along the river Unstrut...
Great Al-Andalus earthquake strikes the Umayyad Caliphate around Córdoba (modern southern Spain)
Battle of Halmyros: Catalan Company defeats the Frankish Duchy of Athens and its vassals led by Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece
Winchelsea () is a town in the county of East Sussex, England, located between the High Weald and the Romney Marsh, approximately two miles (three kilometres) southwest of Rye and seven miles (eleven...
Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence, Italy
Anti-Semite monk in Seville, Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
Second Diet of Speyer convenes, condemns and attempts to reverse 1526 Diet of Speyers relaxation of ban on Luther's teachings); official protest to attempted reversal on 25 April creates the term "Protestantism"
Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise, France
General Francois de Guise enters Paris
Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st American nun, takes her vows in New Orleans
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774.
1st Russian settlement in California at Russian River
The District of Maine was the governmental designation for what is now the U.S. state of Maine from October 25, 1780, to March 15, 1820, when it was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state.
The University of Toronto (U of T) is a public research university with three campuses in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada.
The Hungarian Revolution of 1848, also known in Hungary as Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–1849 (Hungarian: 1848–49-es forradalom és szabadságharc) was one of a number of...
Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
The Red River campaign, also known as the Red River expedition, was a major Union offensive campaign in the Trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War, the campaign taking place from March...
Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
Australian batsman Charles Bannerman completes first Test century in cricket history in 1st Test v England in Melbourne; retires hurt on 165 the following day
1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Lesson Djinns"
1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
6 US & German warships sunk by a typhoon in Apia harbour, Samoa, 200 die
1st escalator patented by American engineer Jesse Reno - first used at Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City [1]
1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
Carl Laemmle was a German-American film producer and the co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures. Laemmle, along with Adolph Zukor, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B.
Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea
The American Legion, commonly known as the Legion, is an organization of U.S. veterans headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. It comprises state, U.S.
1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
Belgium's "black monday", franc falls
A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water.
NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
US Information Service opens
1st state contraceptive clinic opens in Raleigh, North Carolina
Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151 people
Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
The Abbey of Monte Cassino (today usually spelled Montecassino) is a Benedictine monastery on a rocky hill about 130 kilometres (80 mi) southeast of Rome, in the Latin Valley.
John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
NYC hires Dr Wallace E. Howell as its official "rainmaker" to help end a crippling water shortage for the princely sum of $100 a day [1]
The nationalization of the Iranian oil industry resulted from a movement in the Iranian parliament (Majlis) to seize control of Iran's oil industry, which had been run by private companies, largely...
Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean
West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s
Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve, also known as John D. Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, established as 1st underwater park, off the coast of Florida
Donald Jackson of Canada is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, D.C. (IND) begins broadcasting
USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC
Allied Forces Central Europe (AFCENT)-headquarter moves from France to Brunssum, Netherlands
Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/4")
The Japan World Exposition, Osaka, 1970 (日本万国博覧会, Nihon Bankoku Hakuran-kai) or Expo '70 was a world's fair held in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, between 15 March and 13 September 1970.
Chatrooms make their debut on ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet
Brazilian president Garastazu Médici resigns
"That's the Way of the World" 6th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1975)
Failed coup in Niger
"Eight is Enough" premieres on ABC-TV
-21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon
The TRS-80 Micro Computer System (TRS-80, colloquially known as the "Trash-80", later renamed the TRS-80 Model I to distinguish it from its successors) is a desktop microcomputer developed by...
"Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
Cricket is the most popular sport in India. It is played almost everywhere in the country. The Board of Control for Cricket in India is the governing body of cricket in India.
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
This is a list of the oldest extant registered generic top-level domains used in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Until 1986, Domain Registration was limited to organizations with access to...
Funeral services held for murdered Swedish PM Olaf Palme
Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
Eugene Antonio Marino, SSJ (May 29, 1934 – November 12, 2000) was an American Catholic prelate who served as archbishop of Atlanta from 1988 until 1990.
The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City. The Rangers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern...
The president of Brazil (Portuguese: presidente do Brasil), officially the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: presidente da República Federativa do Brasil) or simply the...
UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
In a landmark case, Mohamed Tabet, police commissioner of Casablanca, is convicted of sexually abusing over 1,500 women and sentenced to death
Experts from AL certify the Cleveland Indians Jacobs Field is properly lit
Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran
Sources include: Dow Jones (DJ), New York Times (NYT), Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and the Washington Post (WP). January 10 The White House announces that President Clinton will not designate the...
The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006, were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held in Melbourne,...
16 people are killed by a fireworks accident in Tlaxcala, Mexico
Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence wins Go challenge against Lee Se-dol 4-1
Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 American musical romantic fantasy film. It is a live-action remake of the 1991 Disney animated film, itself an adaptation of the fairy tale.
More than 12,000 people flee Hamouria in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, after town bombarded
European countries impose restrictions on gatherings and borders as COVID-19 deaths rates rise dramatically - Italy 1,809, Spain 288, France 120
Armed attackers kill at least 58 people in the Tillabery region, southwest Niger, government declares three days of mourning
Diébédo Francis Kéré is a Burkinabé-German architect, recognized for creating innovative works that are often sustainable and collaborative in nature.
Another atmospheric river creates a storm across California, bringing widespread flooding and power outages, with Monterey County issuing a 25 mile evacuation order [1]
The Gaza Strip is experiencing a humanitarian crisis as a result of the Gaza war and genocide. The crisis includes both an ongoing famine and a healthcare collapse.
Serbia's largest-ever rally held in Belgrade with 325,000 protesting against the government, fueled by the deadly collapse of the Novi Sad railway station [1]
Andrew Jackson is born
John Snow, English epidemiologist and physician, known for english epidemiologist and physician, was born on 1813-03-15.
Reza Shah Pahlavi is born
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is born
Vaughan Gething is born
Philippe de Broca, French film director, known for french film director, was born on 1933-03-15. Philippe Claude Alex de Broca de Ferrussac was a French film director.
Judd Hirsch, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1936-03-15. Judd Seymore Hirsch is an American actor.
Eva Longoria, American actress and producer, known for american actress and producer, was born on 1976-03-15.
will.i.am musician, known for american rapper, was born on 1976-03-15. William James Adams Jr., known professionally as will.i.am (pronounced "will I am"), is an American rapper, singer, record…
Bobby Bonds, American athlete, known for american baseball player, was born on 1946-03-15.
Paul Pogba, French athlete, known for french footballer, was born on 1994-03-15. Paul Labile Pogba is a French professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Ligue 1 club Monaco.
William Lamb is born
Lionel Martin, English businessman, known for english businessman, was born on 1878-03-15.
Davidson Black dies
Dmitri Polyakov, Russian soviet major general and spy, known for soviet major general and spy, died on 1988-03-15.
Florence Chadwick, American swimmer, known for american swimmer, died on 1995-03-15.
Benjamin Spock pediatrician, political activist, and writer, known for american pediatrician, political activist, and writer, died on 1998-03-15.
Bowie Kuhn, American baseball commissioner, known for american baseball commissioner, died on 2007-03-15.
The Ides of March (Latin: Idus Martiae, Medieval Latin: Idus Martii) is the day on the Roman calendar marked as the Idus, roughly the midpoint of a month, of Martius, corresponding to 15 March on the...
Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself Emperor of Shu-Han, claiming legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty
Odoacer (433 – 15 March 493 AD), also spelled Odovacer or Odovacar, was a barbarian soldier and statesman from the Middle Danube who was an officer of the Roman army and deposed the Western Roman...
The Battle of Riade or Battle of Merseburg was fought between the troops of East Francia under King Henry I and the Magyars at an unidentified location in northern Thuringia along the river Unstrut...
Great Al-Andalus earthquake strikes the Umayyad Caliphate around Córdoba (modern southern Spain)
Battle of Halmyros: Catalan Company defeats the Frankish Duchy of Athens and its vassals led by Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece
Winchelsea () is a town in the county of East Sussex, England, located between the High Weald and the Romney Marsh, approximately two miles (three kilometres) southwest of Rye and seven miles (eleven...
Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence, Italy
Anti-Semite monk in Seville, Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World
Second Diet of Speyer convenes, condemns and attempts to reverse 1526 Diet of Speyers relaxation of ban on Luther's teachings); official protest to attempted reversal on 25 April creates the term "Protestantism"
Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise, France
General Francois de Guise enters Paris
Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st American nun, takes her vows in New Orleans
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774.
Andrew Jackson is born
William Lamb is born
In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy, preventing the threatened coup d'état
1st Russian settlement in California at Russian River
John Snow, English epidemiologist and physician, known for english epidemiologist and physician, was born on 1813-03-15.
The District of Maine was the governmental designation for what is now the U.S. state of Maine from October 25, 1780, to March 15, 1820, when it was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state.
The University of Toronto (U of T) is a public research university with three campuses in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada.
The Hungarian Revolution of 1848, also known in Hungary as Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence of 1848–1849 (Hungarian: 1848–49-es forradalom és szabadságharc) was one of a number of...
Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
The Red River campaign, also known as the Red River expedition, was a major Union offensive campaign in the Trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War, the campaign taking place from March...
Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
The Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 were baseball's first all-professional team, with ten salaried players.
1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
Australian batsman Charles Bannerman completes first Test century in cricket history in 1st Test v England in Melbourne; retires hurt on 165 the following day
Reza Shah Pahlavi is born
Lionel Martin, English businessman, known for english businessman, was born on 1878-03-15.
1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Lesson Djinns"
1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
6 US & German warships sunk by a typhoon in Apia harbour, Samoa, 200 die
1st escalator patented by American engineer Jesse Reno - first used at Old Iron Pier, Coney Island, New York City [1]
1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
Carl Laemmle was a German-American film producer and the co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures. Laemmle, along with Adolph Zukor, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B.
Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea
The last Russian Tsar Nicholas II, abdicates and nominates his brother, Grand Duke Michael to succeed him [OS Mar 2]
The American Legion, commonly known as the Legion, is an organization of U.S. veterans headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. It comprises state, U.S.
1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
Belgium's "black monday", franc falls
A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water.
NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is born
Philippe de Broca, French film director, known for french film director, was born on 1933-03-15. Philippe Claude Alex de Broca de Ferrussac was a French film director.
US Information Service opens
Davidson Black dies
Judd Hirsch, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1936-03-15. Judd Seymore Hirsch is an American actor.
1st state contraceptive clinic opens in Raleigh, North Carolina
Blizzard in North Dakota kills 151 people
Alan Walbridge Ladd (September 3, 1913 – January 29, 1964) was an American actor and film producer. Ladd found success in film in the 1940s and early 1950s, particularly in films noir and Westerns.
Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
The Abbey of Monte Cassino (today usually spelled Montecassino) is a Benedictine monastery on a rocky hill about 130 kilometres (80 mi) southeast of Rome, in the Latin Valley.
Billboard published its first popular albums chart, at the time known as Best-Selling Popular Record Albums, in 1945.
Bobby Bonds, American athlete, known for american baseball player, was born on 1946-03-15.
John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
NYC hires Dr Wallace E. Howell as its official "rainmaker" to help end a crippling water shortage for the princely sum of $100 a day [1]
The nationalization of the Iranian oil industry resulted from a movement in the Iranian parliament (Majlis) to seize control of Iran's oil industry, which had been run by private companies, largely...
Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean
West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
American actor Alan Alda (21) weds American classical clarinest and photographer Arlene Weiss (24)
KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s
Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve, also known as John D. Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, established as 1st underwater park, off the coast of Florida
Five research groups announce the discovery of antimatter
Donald Jackson of Canada is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, D.C. (IND) begins broadcasting
English-American actress Elizabeth Taylor (32) marries for the 5th time to Welsh actor Richard Burton (38); divorce in 1974, remarry in 1975
USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC
Allied Forces Central Europe (AFCENT)-headquarter moves from France to Brunssum, Netherlands
Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/4")
The Japan World Exposition, Osaka, 1970 (日本万国博覧会, Nihon Bankoku Hakuran-kai) or Expo '70 was a world's fair held in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, between 15 March and 13 September 1970.
Chatrooms make their debut on ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet
"The Godfather," based on the book by Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premieres in NYC (Academy Award for Best Picture 1973)
Brazilian president Garastazu Médici resigns
"That's the Way of the World" 6th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1975)
Vaughan Gething is born
Failed coup in Niger
Eva Longoria, American actress and producer, known for american actress and producer, was born on 1976-03-15.
will.i.am musician, known for american rapper, was born on 1976-03-15. William James Adams Jr., known professionally as will.i.am (pronounced "will I am"), is an American rapper, singer, record…
"Eight is Enough" premieres on ABC-TV
-21] operation Litani: Israeli offensive in South Lebanon
The TRS-80 Micro Computer System (TRS-80, colloquially known as the "Trash-80", later renamed the TRS-80 Model I to distinguish it from its successors) is a desktop microcomputer developed by...
"Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
Cricket is the most popular sport in India. It is played almost everywhere in the country. The Board of Control for Cricket in India is the governing body of cricket in India.
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
This is a list of the oldest extant registered generic top-level domains used in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Until 1986, Domain Registration was limited to organizations with access to...
Funeral services held for murdered Swedish PM Olaf Palme
Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
Eugene Antonio Marino, SSJ (May 29, 1934 – November 12, 2000) was an American Catholic prelate who served as archbishop of Atlanta from 1988 until 1990.
Dmitri Polyakov, Russian soviet major general and spy, known for soviet major general and spy, died on 1988-03-15.
The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City. The Rangers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern...
The president of Brazil (Portuguese: presidente do Brasil), officially the president of the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: presidente da República Federativa do Brasil) or simply the...
UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
In a landmark case, Mohamed Tabet, police commissioner of Casablanca, is convicted of sexually abusing over 1,500 women and sentenced to death
Experts from AL certify the Cleveland Indians Jacobs Field is properly lit
Paul Pogba, French athlete, known for french footballer, was born on 1994-03-15. Paul Labile Pogba is a French professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Ligue 1 club Monaco.
Florence Chadwick, American swimmer, known for american swimmer, died on 1995-03-15.
Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran
Benjamin Spock pediatrician, political activist, and writer, known for american pediatrician, political activist, and writer, died on 1998-03-15.
Sources include: Dow Jones (DJ), New York Times (NYT), Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and the Washington Post (WP). January 10 The White House announces that President Clinton will not designate the...
The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006, were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held in Melbourne,...
Bowie Kuhn, American baseball commissioner, known for american baseball commissioner, died on 2007-03-15.
16 people are killed by a fireworks accident in Tlaxcala, Mexico
Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence wins Go challenge against Lee Se-dol 4-1
Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 American musical romantic fantasy film. It is a live-action remake of the 1991 Disney animated film, itself an adaptation of the fairy tale.
More than 12,000 people flee Hamouria in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, after town bombarded
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg is a Swedish activist best known for pressuring governments to address climate change and social issues.
European countries impose restrictions on gatherings and borders as COVID-19 deaths rates rise dramatically - Italy 1,809, Spain 288, France 120
Armed attackers kill at least 58 people in the Tillabery region, southwest Niger, government declares three days of mourning
Diébédo Francis Kéré is a Burkinabé-German architect, recognized for creating innovative works that are often sustainable and collaborative in nature.
Another atmospheric river creates a storm across California, bringing widespread flooding and power outages, with Monterey County issuing a 25 mile evacuation order [1]
The Gaza Strip is experiencing a humanitarian crisis as a result of the Gaza war and genocide. The crisis includes both an ongoing famine and a healthcare collapse.
Serbia's largest-ever rally held in Belgrade with 325,000 protesting against the government, fueled by the deadly collapse of the Novi Sad railway station [1]