This Day in History
Today: March 15, 2026
-474
Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years truce.[1]
-44
The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place on the Ides of March.[2]
493
Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is slain by Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, while the two kings were feasting together.[3]
856
Michael III, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, overthrows the regency of his mother, empress Theodora (wife of Theophilos) with support of the Byzantine nobility.[4]
897
Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya enters Sa'dah and founds the Zaydi Imamate of Yemen.[5]
933
After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.[6]
1311
Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.[7]
1564
Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes the jizya tax on non-Muslim subjects.[8]
1672
King Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, granting limited religious freedom to all Christians.[9]
1783
In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful, and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.[10]
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