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On March 15, -474: Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.

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Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.

The consuls were the two highest elected public officials of the Roman Republic. Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the cursus honorum—an ascending sequence of public offices to which politicians aspired—after that of the censor, which was reserved for former consuls. Each year, the centuriate assembly elected two consuls to serve jointly for a one-year term.

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Born on March 15

Rodri Mendoza 2005– Spanish footballer
Isaiah Bond 2004– American football player (born 2004)
Quinn Ewers 2003– American football player (born 2003)
Ellie Leach 2001– English actress (born 2001)
Kristian Kostov 2000– Bulgarian-Russian singer (born 2000)
Maxwell Jacob Friedman 1996– American professional wrestler (born 1996)
Seonaid McIntosh 1996– British sport shooter (born 1996)
Jinjin 1996– South Korean rapper (born 1996)
Jabari Parker 1995– American basketball player (born 1995)
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Matt Gay 1994– American football player (born 1994)
Scott Seiss 1994– American comedian and TikTok personality
Alia Bhatt 1993– British actress (born 1993)
Michael Fulmer 1993– American baseball player (born 1993)
Taylor Heinicke 1993– American football player (born 1993)
Aleksandra Krunić 1993– Serbian tennis player (born 1993)
Paul Pogba 1993– French footballer (born 1993)
Mark Scheifele 1993– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1993)
Devonta Freeman 1992– American football player (born 1992)

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Died on March 15

Wings Hauser American actor (1947–2025)
Nita Lowey American politician (1937–2025)
Rajnikumar Pandya Indian Gujarati-language writer
Barbara Maier Gustern American vocal coach (1935–2022)
Vittorio Gregotti Italian architect (1927–2020)
Larry DiTillio American writer and game designer
Sylvia Anderson British producer (1927–2016)
Asa Briggs English historian (1921–2016)
Seru Rabeni Fiji international rugby union player
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Collins Chabane South African politician (1960–2015)
Robert Clatworthy British sculptor and art teacher (1928–2015)
Sally Forrest American actress (1928–2015)
Curtis Gans American activist and writer (1937-2015)
Mike Porcaro American bassist (1955–2015)
Scott Asheton American drummer (1949–2014)
David Brenner American comedian and actor (1936–2014)
Bo Callaway American businessman and politician (1927–2014)
Clarissa Dickson Wright English television cook (1947–2014)

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  1. -474 Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.

    Political office in ancient Rome

    The consuls were the two highest elected public officials of the Roman Republic. Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the cursus honorum—an ascending sequence of public offices to which politicians aspired—after that of the censor, which was reserved for former consuls. Each year, the centuriate assembly elected two consuls to serve jointly for a one-year term.

  2. -200 The Roman Republic under its new consuls Publius Sulpicius Galba and Gaius Aurelius Cotta declares war on Philip V of Macedon, starting the Second Macedonian War.

    Period of Roman history (c. 509 – 27 BC)

    The Roman Republic was the era of classical Roman civilisation beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium. During this period, Rome's control expanded from the city's immediate surroundings to hegemony over the entire Mediterranean world.

  3. -44 The assassination of Julius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman Republic, by a group of senators takes place on the Ides of March.

    44 BC murder in Rome

    Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, was assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BC, by a group of senators during a Senate session at the Curia of Pompey, located within the Theatre of Pompey in Rome. The conspirators, numbering 60 individuals and led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, stabbed Caesar approximately 23 times. They justified the act as a preemptive defense of the Roman Republic, asserting that Caesar's accumulation of lifelong political authority—including his perpetual dictatorship and other honors—threatened republican traditions.

  4. 351 Constantius Gallus is elevated as Caesar and then sent to Antioch to govern the Roman East.

    Roman caesar from 351 to 354

    Flavius Claudius Constantius Gallus was a statesman and ruler in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire from 351 to 354, as Caesar under emperor Constantius II, his cousin. A grandson of emperor Constantius Chlorus and empress Flavia Maximiana Theodora, and a son of Julius Constantius and Galla, he belonged to the Constantinian dynasty. Born during the reign of his uncle Constantine the Great, he was among the few male members of the imperial family to survive the purge that followed Constantine's death.

  5. 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.

    Ruler of Italy (c. 433 – 493)

    Odoacer, also spelled Odovacer or Odovacar, was a barbarian soldier and statesman from the Middle Danube who was an officer of the Roman army and deposed the Western Roman child emperor Romulus Augustulus to become the ruler of Italy (476–493). Odoacer's overthrow of Romulus Augustulus is traditionally understood as marking the end of the Western Roman Empire.

  6. 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.
  7. 897 Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya enters Sa'dah and founds the Zaydi Imamate of Yemen.
  8. 933 After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
  9. 1147 Afonso I of Portugal captures in a surprise attack the city of Santarem from the Almoravids.
  10. 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.
  11. 1412 Treaty of Lublowa: After the Peace of Thorn, Grand Master Heinrich von Plauen asks Sigismund of Hungary for economic aid. Sigismund agrees to mediate reduction to the third installment, demarcation of the Samogitian border, and other matters with a grand tournament. Hunts and lavish feasts were also organized. Sigismund invited, among others, polish king Wladyslaw Jagiello, Heinrich von Plauen and bosnian king Tvrtko II. There were people from 17 countries and languages - 40.000 nobles and 2000 knights were present from all over Europe, even England.
  12. 1564 Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes the jizya tax on non-Muslim subjects.
  13. 1626 A dam failure causes the sudden flooding of the mining city of Potosí in present-day Bolivia leading to the death of thousands and the massive release of toxic mercury into the environment.
  14. 1672 King Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, granting limited religious freedom to all Christians.
  15. 1781 The British under Charles Cornwallis defeat American forces under Nathanael Greene in the battle of Guilford Court House.
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  1. 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.
  2. 1820 Maine is admitted as the twenty-third U.S. state.
  3. 1823 Sailor Benjamin Morrell erroneously reports the existence of the island of New South Greenland near Antarctica.
  4. 1848 A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the reform party.
  5. 1874 France and Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
  6. 1875 Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
  7. 1877 First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
  8. 1888 Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
  9. 1892 The Lobau bombing is one of the first attacks of the Ère des attentats (1892-1894).
  10. 1894 Madeleine bombing by Désiré Pauwels during the Ère des attentats.
  11. 1907 The first parliamentary elections of Finland (at the time the Grand Duchy of Finland) are held.
  12. 1917 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne, ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
  13. 1918 Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere begins.
  14. 1919 Ukrainian War of Independence: The Kontrrazvedka is established as the counterintelligence division of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine.
  15. 1919 The American Legion is founded.

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