What are the important events that happened on March 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 15: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 15 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 2, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,033,280 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘heptacontatetragon’ day.
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Pisces is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,467 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 15: This Day In History
In the Roman calendar, March 15 was known as the Ides of March.
March 15 Historical Events
- 933 –After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
- 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.
- 1493 –Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
- 1564 –Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes jizya (per capita tax) .
- 1672 –Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
- 1848 –A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
- 1906 –Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
- 1926 –The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
- 1939 –World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
- 1945 –World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
Who were born on March 15?
- 938 –Romanos II, Byzantine emperor (d. 963)
- 1666 –George Bähr, German architect (d. 1738)
- 1813 –John Snow, English epidemiologist (d. 1858)
- 1915 –Joe E. Ross, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)
- 1918 –Richard Ellmann, American biographer (d. 1987)
- 1920 –Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
- 1927 –Christian Marquand, French actor and director (d. 2000)
- 1939 –Jack Whyte, Scottish-Canadian author
- 1940 –Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
- 1969 –Elvir Laković Laka, Bosnian rock singer
Who died on March 15?
- 1416 –John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
- 1701 –Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
- 1891 –Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
- 1937 –H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
- 1959 –Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)
- 1969 –Miles Malleson, British actor and dramatist (b. 1888)
- 1989 –Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
- 1998 –Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
- 2005 –Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
- 2006 –Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
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