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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 2, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,710,460,800 seconds 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 ‘heptacontapentagon’ day.
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 320 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 4,102 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
- 280 –Sun Hao of Eastern Wu surrenders to Sima Yan which began the Jin Dynasty.
- 1514 –Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen’s Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.
- 1564 –Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes jizya (per capita tax) .
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on March 15?
- 1684 –Francesco Durante, Italian composer (d. 1755)
- 1835 –Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (d. 1916)
- 1916 –Fadil Hoxha, Yugoslav politician (d. 2001)
- 1940 –Mel Phillips, American radio programmer
- 1948 –Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
- 1959 –Fabio Lanzoni, Italian model
- 1961 –Terry Cummings, American basketball player
- 1968 –Terje Riis-Johansen, Norwegian politician
- 1982 –Emily Tyndall, American actress
- 1989 –Caitlin Wachs, American actress
Who died on March 15?
- 44 BC –Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)
- 1536 –Pargalı İbrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier under Suleiman the Magnificent
- 1701 –Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
- 1951 –John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889)
- 1966 –Abe Saperstein, American basketball executive (b. 1902)
- 1969 –Miles Malleson, British actor and dramatist (b. 1888)
- 1988 –Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet double-agent (b. 1926)
- 2004 –Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)
- 2005 –Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
- 2007 –Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)
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