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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.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Julius Caesar
Portrait of George Washington in military uniform
John McCloskey
Two German infantrymen in Russia, 1941

Two German infantrymen in Russia, 1941
Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia
Pancho Villa
Blank map of Maine

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Hōnen Matsuri in Japan	essentially unreferenced stub
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 sections
1877 – Cricketers representing England and Australia began the first match in Test cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.	more footnotes, English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1876–77 article is tagged with {{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 tagged with {{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.	unreferenced sections

Eligible

933 – Franks led by German king Henry I defeated an invading Hungarian army in the Battle of Riade in northern Thuringia.
1783 – A potential uprising in Newburgh, New York, was defused when George Washington asked Continental Army officers to support the supremacy of Congress.
1820 – As part of the Missouri Compromise, the exclave of Massachusetts known as Maine (map pictured) was given its own U.S. statehood.
1892 – Liverpool F.C., one of England's most successful football clubs, was founded.
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 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.
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.
1972 – The Godfather, a gangster film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, was released.
1985 – The company Symbolics became the first ever entity, individual or party to register a .com top-level domain name: symbolics.com.
1986 – The building housing the Hotel New World in Singapore collapsed suddenly due to structural failure, killing 33 people.
1989 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs, a government-run military veteran benefit system, was established as a Cabinet-level position.
2011 – Arab Spring: Protests erupted across Syria against the authoritarian government.

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

March 15: Ides of March; Laetare Sunday (Western Christianity, 2015); National Day in Hungary (1848)

44 BC – Dictator Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic was stabbed to death (painting by Vincenzo Camuccini pictured) by Marcus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators.
1311 – The Catalan Company defeated Walter V, Count of Brienne in the Battle of Halmyros and took control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1875 – Archbishop of New York John McCloskey was named the first cardinal in the United States.
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.
1990 – Iraqi authorities hanged freelance Iranian reporter Farzad Bazoft for spying for Israel.

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