The 15t o Mairch is the 74t day o the year (75t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 291 days ti come.
1820: The state o Maine
- 44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator o the Roman Republic, is stabbed tae daith bi Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus an several ether Roman senators on the Ides o Mairch.
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus returns tae Spain efter his first trip tae the Americaes.
- 1776 – Sooth Carolina becomes the first colony on the east coast o North Americae tae declare its unthirldom frae Great Breetain.
- 1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd state o the Unitit States.
- 1867 – Hungary gains autonomy, as pairt o the dual monarchy o Austrick-Hungary.
- 1892 – Liverpool F.C. is foondit.
- 1917 – Tsar Nicholas II o Roushie abdicates.
- 1922 – Efter Egyp gains nominal unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick, Fuad I becomes Keeng o Egyp.
- 1952 – Cilaos, Réunion, breaks the record for 24-hour rainfall.
- 1985 – The period o militar govrenment in Brazil ends.
- 1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is electit as the first Preses o the Soviet Union.
- 2003 – Hu Jintao becomes Preses o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae.
- 2011 – Beginnin o the Sirian Ceevil War.
- 2013 – Xi Jinping becomes Preses o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae.
- 2019 – Christchurch mosque shuitins: A gunman cairies oot shuitin attacks on twa mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killin 50 fowk.
- 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Bahamas, Guam an Uzbekistan record thair first COVID-19 cases.
Emil Adolf von Behring
Zhores Alferov
- 1638 – Shunzhi Emperor o Cheenae (d. 1661)
- 1754 – Archibald Menzies, Scots surgeon (d. 1842)
- 1767 – Andrew Jackson, 7nt Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1845)
- 1779 – William Lamb, 2nt Viscoont Melbourne, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1848)
- 1809 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st Preses o Liberie (d. 1876)
- 1820 – Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming, Scots traiveller an sportsman (d. 1866)
- 1830 – Paul Heyse, German writer (d. 1914)
- 1854 – Emil Adolf von Behring, German pheesiologist (d. 1917)
- 1930 – Zhores Alferov, Belaroushie-born pheesicist (d. 2019)
- 1933 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Unitit States Supreme Coort Juistice (d. 2020)
- 1935 – Judd Hirsch, American actor
- 1942 – Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler
- 1943 – David Cronenberg, Canadian actor, director an screenwriter
- 1947 – Ry Cooder, American sangster an muisicker
- 1953 – Richard Bruton, Erse politeecian
- 1959 – Ben Okri, Nigerie novelist
- 1967 – Ian Ferguson, Scots fitbawer
- 1975 – Eva Longoria, American actress
- 1975 – will.i.am, American sangster, rapper an actor
- 1986 – Carlos Rivera, Mexican actor an sangster
- 1993 – Paul Pogba, French fitbawer
- 44 BC – Julius Caesar, Roman general an statesman (b. 100 BC)
- 1842 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian componer (b. 1760)
- 1936 – John Scott Haldane, Scots pheesiologist (b. 1860)
- 1937 – H. P. Lovecraft, American author (b. 1890)
- 1962 – Arthur Compton, American pheesicist (d. 1892)
- 1972 – Jimmy Simpson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1908)
- 1978 – Bobby McKean, Scots fitbawer (b. 1952)
- 1983 – Rebecca West, Inglis writer (b. 1892)
- 2007 – Adam Robson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1928)
- 2014 – Clarissa Dickson Wright, Inglis barrister, cookery writer an braidcaster (b. 1947)
- 15 Mairch is the eat day o the follaein saunts:
- St. Louise de Marillac
- St. Matrona
- St. Aristobulus
- Bl. William Hart
- St. Clement Maria Hofbauer
- St. Leocrita
- St. Mancius
- St. Raymond o Fitero
- St. Nicander
- St. Menignus
- St. Monaldus o Ancona
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