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 75^th 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.

March 15: This Day In History

In the Roman calendar, March 15 was known as the Ides of March.

March 15 Historical Events

• 351 –
  Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
• 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.
• 1888 –
  Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
• 1916 –
  President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
• 1931 –
  SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
• 1939 –
  World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
• 1986 –
  Hotel New World Disaster a 1 star hotel collapses in Singapore’s Little India’s district killing 33 people
• 1990 –
  Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
• 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?

• 1809 –
  Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (d. 1876)
• 1818 –
  Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924)
• 1854 –
  Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
• 1916 –
  Harry James, American musician and band leader (d. 1983)
• 1932 –
  Alan Bean, American astronaut
• 1934 –
  Richard Layard, Baron Layard, British economist
• 1950 –
  Jørgen Olsen, Danish singer
• 1962 –
  Jimmy Baio, American actor
• 1975 –
  Darcy Tucker, Canadian hockey player
• 1981 –
  Veronica Maggio, Swedish singer

Who died on March 15?

• 44 BC –
  Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)
• 1536 –
  Pargalı İbrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier under Suleiman the Magnificent
• 1673 –
  Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (b. 1615)
• 1898 –
  Sir Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)
• 1983 –
  Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)
• 1989 –
  Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
• 1998 –
  Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
• 2005 –
  Bob Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944)
• 2006 –
  Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
• 2011 –
  Nate Dogg, American rapper (b. 1969)