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March 15 is the 74th day of the year of the Gregorian calendar in which there are then 291 others, including when it is a leap year when it becomes 75th.
It was usually the 25th day of the month of Ventôse in the French Republican/Revolutionary calendar officially referred to as Tuna Day.
March 14 - March 15 - March 16
Events
1st century BC.
44 BC J.-C.: assassination of Julius Caesar on the Roman forum in the middle of the ides of March (see celebrations below in fine).
4th century
351: Constantius Gallus becomes Caesar.
5th century
493: after a difficult war (489-493) and the siege of Ravenna (491-493), Theodoric executes King Odoacer who had capitulated. The Ostrogoths are the masters of Italy and Dalmatia.
12th century
1190: Isabelle de Hainaut dies in childbirth after having given three children to Philippe Auguste, including Louis (father of the future Saint-Louis).
13th century
1232: Count Thomas I of Savoy buys the city of Chambéry from Count Berlion, for 32,000 sous forts de Suse, to make it his capital.
1270: Eudes Rigaud, Archbishop of Rouen from 1248 to 1275, leaves Rouen to join the Crusader army.
15th century
1493: Christopher Columbus, returning from the New World, completes his first voyage by landing at Palos de la Frontera.
17th century
1603: in Honfleur, Samuel de Champlain, in the company of a merchant from Saint-Malo, Gravé du Pont, set sail for Canada.
18th century
1714: Hagopdjan de Deritchan, the richest Armenian merchant, leaves Yerevan with the Persian ambassador and takes the road to Europe to transport presents from the Shah of Persia Hussein I to King Louis XIV of France.
1763: Joseph Morel, General of the First Empire († April 28, 1834)
1783: George Washington calms the situation and avoids the Newburgh conspiracy.
1793: Combat of Pontivy and combat of La Roche-Bernard, during the peasant revolts against the levy en masse.
19th century
1820: Maine becomes a state of the United States.
1847: opening of the Amiens-Abbeville section of the line from Longueau to Boulogne-Ville.
1848: Beginning of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
1850: vote of the Falloux law, French law on public education.
1874: in Southeast Asia, France signs a treaty with Annam in Saigon, which recognizes the presence of France in Lower Cochinchina and grants it freedom of navigation.
1890:
Emperor William II withdraws his support for Chancellor Bismarck, his official dismissal will take place a few days later.
the International Labor Conference, meeting in Berlin from the 15th to the 26th, provides for the creation of international labor legislation.
1894: France ceded the "duckbill" to Germany for the benefit of German Cameroon.
20th century
1907: first legislative elections in the Grand Duchy of Finland. Women are elected to a parliament for the first time.
1917: in Pskov, under pressure from the general staff, Tsar Nicolas II abdicates after appointing a liberal, Gueorgui Lvov, as head of government. Seeing no possibility of restoring order, the Grand Duke Michael, chosen by the Tsar to succeed him, renounced the throne the next day.
1922: Fouad I changes his title from sultan to king of Egypt.
1939: Czechoslovakia is invaded by Nazi Germany, which forms the protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia.
1943: activation of the United States Third Fleet.
1944:
during Operation Margarethe, Germany invaded Hungary, which wanted to get closer to the Allies.
in France, the National Resistance Council adopted his program.
1954: the Việt Minh takes the Gabrielle post from the French colonials, during the first wave of the battle of Ðiện Biên Phủ.
1962:
clash between American military advisers
