On This Day, 15 March (Beware the Ides of March!)

 15 March AD 2024

1st Indiction

Id. Márt. MMDCCLXXVII AUC

Id. Márt. MMXXIV AD

Our Lady of the Underground, Chartres, France

• 44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
• 351 – Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
• 856 – Michael III, Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, overthrows the regency of his mother, Empress Theodora (wife of Theophilos) with the support of the Eastern Roman nobility.
• 933 – After a ten-year truce, King of the Germans Henry the Fowler, husband of St Matilda, whose Feast Day was yesterday, defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
• 1672 – King Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, granting limited religious freedom to Catholics.
• 1875 – Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
• 1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne, ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
• 1921 – Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.