About March 15
March 15, 2023 is the 74th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 291 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 332 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.
- 351 –Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
- 933 –After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
- 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.
- 1820 –Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
- 1848 –A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
- 1888 –Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
- 1906 –Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
- 1916 –President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
- 1917 –Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1956 –My Fair Lady premiered on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
- 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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