Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 15
July 15: 400th anniversary of birth of Dutch painter Rembrandt (pictured)
- 1410 - The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of Grunwald.
- 1685 - James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, was executed for his role in the Monmouth Rebellion.
- 1799 - French soldiers uncovered the Rosetta Stone in the Egyptian port city of Rashid.
- 1806 - The Pike expedition, led by Zebulon Pike to explore the Louisiana Territory, began near St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1955 - Eighteen Nobel laureates signed the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons.
- 1974 - Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, was overthrown in a coup d'état.