About March 15
March 15, 2025 is the 74th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 291 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 339 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.
- 933 –After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
- 1514 –Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen’s Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.
- 1545 –First meeting of the Council of Trent.
- 1564 –Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes jizya (per capita tax) .
- 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.
- 1906 –Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
- 1922 –After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
- 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.
- 1933 –Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.
- 1939 –Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
- 1956 –My Fair Lady premiered on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
- 1965 –President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress “We shall overcome” while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
- 1985 –The end of the Brazilian military dictatorship.
- 1985 –The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
- 1990 –Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
- 2004 –French President Jacques Chirac signs the law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools, commonly known as the headscarf ban.
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