What happened on 15 March?

12 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 44 BCE Assassination of Julius Caesar Caesar is stabbed to death by Roman senators on the Ides of March, sparking the wars that ended the Republic.
2. 2011 Syrian Civil War Multi-sided civil war in Syria, beginning with Arab-Spring protests against Bashar al-Assad and drawing in Russia, Iran, Turkey, the US and ISIS. Assad fell in late 2024.
3. 2011 Syrian Civil War begins Conventional start of Syrian Civil War.
4. 1939 German occupation of Czechoslovakia Germany swallowed the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, exposing appeasement as failed.
5. 1917 Nicholas II abdicates Stranded in his train while Petrograd's garrison joins the bread rioters, the last Tsar of Russia abdicates for himself and his haemophiliac son; his brother Michael declines the c
6. 1848 Hungarian Revolution of 1848 Kossuth's Hungary wins de facto independence from Vienna until Russian intervention crushes it; the 13 executed generals of Arad become national martyrs.
7. 1907 Finland elects the world's first women MPs A year after winning full suffrage — the first in Europe — Finnish women do what no women anywhere have done: nineteen of them take seats in parliament. The Grand Duchy on Russia's
8. 2004 France banned headscarves in schools Law forbidding conspicuous religious symbols in state schools — flashpoint over laïcité.
9. 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings White supremacist gunman kills 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques.
10. 1918 Tampere assault Finnish Civil War The bloodiest battle of the Finnish Civil War and a decisive White victory (15 Mar-6 Apr 1918); the war itself ended 15 May 1918.
11. 1783 Washington defuses the Newburgh Conspiracy With Congress broke and the unpaid army muttering about marching on it, Washington confronts his officers — and disarms them by fumbling for his spectacles: 'I have grown grey in y
12. 1877 First cricket Test match Australia beat England by 45 runs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in what is retrospectively counted as the first Test match — the start of international cricket.