15 March in history

7 events that happened on 15 March, from 44 BCE to 2019.

  1. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    44 BCE 2,070 years ago

    Julius Caesar assassinated on the Ides of March

    A group of senators led by Brutus and Cassius stabbed Caesar to death in the Curia of Pompey. Meant to save the Republic, the murder led to civil war and the rule of Augustus.

    Ptolemaic EmpireJulius CaesarPompey

  2. 493 CE 1,533 years ago

    Theoderic the Great kills Odoacer at Ravenna

    After a long siege ended in a power-sharing agreement, Theoderic murdered Odoacer at a banquet. The Ostrogothic king then ruled Italy for over thirty years.

    Odoacer

  3. 1493 CE 533 years ago

    Columbus returns to Spain from his first voyage

    Columbus sailed into Palos, the port from which he had departed seven months earlier, with news of islands across the Atlantic. His voyages began lasting European contact with the Americas.

  4. 1564 CE 462 years ago

    Akbar abolishes the jizya tax on non-Muslims

    The Mughal emperor ended the poll tax on non-Muslim subjects, part of a policy of conciliating the Hindu majority of his empire. Aurangzeb reimposed it in 1679.

    Mughal EmpireAurangzebAkbar

  5. 1820 CE 206 years ago

    Maine becomes the 23rd US state

    Separated from Massachusetts, Maine entered the Union as a free state under the Missouri Compromise. Its admission balanced that of Missouri as a slave state.

  6. 1917 CE 109 years ago

    Tsar Nicholas II abdicates

    Facing revolution in Petrograd and mutiny in the army, Nicholas II gave up the throne for himself and his son. Over three centuries of Romanov rule ended, and a Provisional Government took power.

    Russian EmpireNicholas IIPetrograd

  7. 2019 CE 7 years ago

    Gunman kills 51 at two Christchurch mosques

    A white supremacist attacked worshippers at Friday prayers and livestreamed the killings. Within a month New Zealand's parliament banned most semi-automatic weapons.

    New Zealand

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