Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 15
This is a list of selected March 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Hōnen Matsuri in Japan | unreferenced |
| ; National Day in Hungary (1848) | refimprove section |
| 933 – Franks led by German king Henry I defeated an invading Hungarian army in the Battle of Riade in northern Thuringia. | refimprove section |
| 1781 – American Revolutionary War: A British force under General Lord Cornwallis, numbering 1,900, fought 4,400 American troops under Rhode Island native General Nathanael Greene at the Battle of Guilford Court House inside present-day Greensboro, North Carolina. | unreferenced section |
| 1820 – As part of the Missouri Compromise, the exclave of Massachusetts known as Maine was given its own U.S. statehood. | refimprove section |
| 1877 – Cricketers representing England and Australia began the first match in Test cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. | needs more footnotes, English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1876–77: refimprove |
| 1906 – Charles Rolls and Henry Royce founded the British automobile manufacturing company Rolls-Royce. | unreferenced section |
| 1939 – Nazi German troops began their occupation of Czechoslovakia and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. | both: refimprove |
| 1941 – Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took its first flight, making it the oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name. | outdated; unreferenced section |
| 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army began the Upper Silesian Offensive aimed at capturing the industrial and raw materials resources located in Upper Silesia. | refimprove section |
| 1985 – The company Symbolics became the first entity, individual or party to register a .com top-level domain name: symbolics.com. | refimprove section |
| 1986 – The building housing the Hotel New World in Singapore collapsed suddenly due to structural failure, killing 33 people. | multiple issues |
| 1989 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs, a government-run military veteran benefit system, was established as a Cabinet-level position. | refimprove |
| 2011 – Arab Spring: Protests erupted across Syria against the authoritarian government, marking the start of the Syrian civil war. | outdated |
| 2022 – Russia withdrew from the Council of Europe after expulsion procedures were brought following its invasion of Ukraine. | Uncited section |
| Archibald Menzies |b|1754| | uncited birthdate |
| Christian Michelsen |b|1857| | uncited birthdate |
| Grace Chisholm Young |b|1868| | uncited birthdate |
Eligible
- 856 – Byzantine emperor Michael III (pictured) overthrew the regency of his mother Theodora to assume power for himself.
- 1147 – Reconquista: Portuguese troops under King Afonso I captured the city of Santarém from the Almoravids.
- 1311 – In the Battle of Halmyros, the Catalan Company defeated the forces of Walter V, Count of Brienne, taking control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in present-day Greece.
- 1783 – George Washington delivered a speech to Continental Army officers in Newburgh, New York, asking them to support the supremacy of the Congress of the Confederation, defusing a potential coup.
- 1875 – John McCloskey, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, was created the first cardinal from the United States.
- 1910 – Prospectors drilled into a pressurized deposit within the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in California, resulting in the largest accidental oil spill in history, which eventually released 9 million barrels (1.4 million m3) of crude oil over 18 months.
- 1921 – Talaat Pasha, the main perpetrator of the Armenian genocide, was assassinated by Soghomon Tehlirian.
- 1927 – In rowing, Oxford defeated Cambridge in the inaugural edition of the Women's Boat Race.
- 1943 – World War II: German forces recaptured Kharkov after four days of house-to-house fighting against Soviet troops, ending the month-long Third Battle of Kharkov.
- 1956 – The musical My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, debuted at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City.
- 1960 – Students from Atlanta University Center, inspired by similar actions in Greensboro, North Carolina, began occupying lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1974 – Transvestism and Transsexuality in Modern Society, the UK's first trans-rights conference, opened with an evening reception in Leeds.
- 1990 – Iraqi authorities hanged Iranian freelance reporter Farzad Bazoft on charges of spying for Israel.
- Born/died: | Ernulf |d|1124| Eusebio Kino |d|1711| Daniele Comboni |b|1831| Johan Vaaler |b|1866| Arthur Compton |d|1962| Robin Hunicke |b|1973| Lauren Ebsary |b|1983| Paul Pogba |b|1993
Notes
- FC Bayern Munich appears on February 27, so Liverpool FC should not appear in the same year
- Missouri Compromise appears on March 3, so Maine should not appear in the same year
Julius Caesar
- 44 BC – Julius Caesar (bust pictured), the dictator of the Roman Republic, was stabbed to death by a group of senators led by Marcus Junius Brutus.
- 1823 – Sailor Benjamin Morrell erroneously reported the existence of the island of New South Greenland near Antarctica.
- 1916 – Six days after Pancho Villa and his cross-border raiders attacked Columbus, New Mexico, U.S. General John J. Pershing led a punitive expedition into Mexico to pursue Villa.
- 1917 – Russian Revolution: Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.
- 1943 – The deportation of 50,000 Jews from the Greek city of Thessaloniki began.
- 1951 – The Iranian oil industry was nationalized in a movement led by Mohammad Mosaddegh.
- Albert of Schwarzburg (d. 1327)
- Matthew Charlton (b. 1866)
- Ignace Tonené (d. 1916)
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg (b. 1933)