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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1820 –Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
- 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.
- 1931 –SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1990 –Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
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