SomeFacts | March 15

On this day - March 15

Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding ...

The assassination of Julius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman ...

493 — Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of ...

856 — Michael III, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, overthrows the ...

897 — Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya enters Sa'dah and founds the ...

933 — After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a ...

1311 — Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, ...

1412 — Treaty of Lublowa: After the Peace of Thorn, Grand Master ...

1564 — Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes the jizya tax on non-Muslim ...

1626 — A dam failure causes the sudden flooding of the mining city of ...

1672 — King Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of ...

1783 — In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George ...

1820 — Maine is admitted as the twenty-third U.S. state.

1823 — Sailor Benjamin Morrell erroneously reported the existence of ...

1848 — A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers ...

1874 — France and Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further ...

1875 — Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first ...

1877 — First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs ...

1888 — Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.

1892 — The Lobau bombing is one of the first attacks of the Ère des ...

1894 — Madeleine bombing by Désiré Pauwels during the Ère des ...

1907 — The first parliamentary elections of Finland (at the time the ...

1917 — Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne, ...

1918 — Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere begins.

1919 — The American Legion is founded.

1919 — Ukrainian War of Independence: The Kontrrazvedka is ...

1921 — Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and ...

1922 — After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United ...

1927 — The first Women's Boat Race between the University of ...

1939 — Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but ...

1939 — Germany occupies Czechoslovakia.

1943 — World War II: Third Battle of Kharkiv: The Germans retake the ...

1951 — Iranian oil industry is nationalized.

1961 — At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, ...

1965 — President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, ...

1974 — Fifteen people are killed when Sterling Airways Flight 901, a ...

1978 — Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali ...

1986 — Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the ...

1990 — Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the ...

1991 — Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to ...

2008 — Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ...

2011 — Beginning of the Syrian revolution.

2019 — Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on ...

2019 — Beginning of the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.

2019 — Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque ...

2022 — The 2022 Sri Lankan protests begins amidst Sri Lanka's ...