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, 1,741,996,800 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 ‘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
- 1514 –Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen’s Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.
- 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.
- 1939 –Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
- 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.
- 1956 –My Fair Lady premiered on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
- 1986 –Hotel New World Disaster a 1 star hotel collapses in Singapore’s Little India’s district killing 33 people
- 1990 –Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
- 2004 –French President Jacques Chirac signs the law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools, commonly known as the headscarf ban.
Who were born on March 15?
- 1907 –Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
- 1915 –Joe E. Ross, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)
- 1936 –David Andrews, Irish politician
- 1959 –Lisa Holton, American writer
- 1979 –Kevin Youkilis, American baseball player
- 1983 –Sean Biggerstaff, Scottish actor
- 1985 –Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
- 1985 –Curtis Davies, English footballer
- 1985 –Kellan Lutz, American model and actor
- 1985 –Tom Chilton, British racing driver
Who died on March 15?
- 44 BC –Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)
- 493 –Odoacer, King of Italy (b. 435)
- 1416 –John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
- 1701 –Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
- 1985 –Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921)
- 1990 –Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
- 2004 –John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
- 2004 –Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)
- 2008 –Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
- 2011 –Smiley Culture, British reggae singer (b. 1963)
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