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 74^th 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, 483,888 hours 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.

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.

March 15: This Day In History

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

March 15 Historical Events

• 221 –
  Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty.
• 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.
• 1493 –
  Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
• 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.
• 1783 –
  In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
• 1820 –
  Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
• 1906 –
  Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
• 1939 –
  World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
• 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.

Who were born on March 15?

• 1666 –
  George Bähr, German architect (d. 1738)
• 1713 –
  Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)
• 1851 –
  William Mitchell Ramsay, Scottish archaeologist (d. 1939)
• 1899 –
  George Brent, American film actor (d. 1979)
• 1923 –
  Charles Wheeler, British journalist (d. 2008)
• 1927 –
  Christian Marquand, French actor and director (d. 2000)
• 1978 –
  Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater
• 1981 –
  Veronica Maggio, Swedish singer
• 1982 –
  Jordan Hastings, Canadian drummer (Alexisonfire)
• 1985 –
  Curtis Davies, English footballer

Who died on March 15?

• 1536 –
  Pargalı İbrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier under Suleiman the Magnificent
• 1644 –
  Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (b. 1576)
• 1701 –
  Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
• 1891 –
  Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
• 1937 –
  H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
• 1962 –
  Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1969 –
  Miles Malleson, British actor and dramatist (b. 1888)
• 1977 –
  Hubert Aquin, Canadian novelist, political activist and editor (b. 1929)
• 1997 –
  Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (b. 1906)
• 2003 –
  Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)