Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 15
March 15: National Day in Hungary, Hōnen Matsuri in Japan.
- 44 BC - Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic was stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
- 1311 - The Catalan Company defeated Walter V of Brienne in the Battle of Halmyros and took control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
- 1877 - History of cricket: Cricketers representing England and Australia began the first match in Test cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (pictured) was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.
- 1939 - German troops began the occupation of Czechoslovakia; the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed the following day.
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