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This is a list of selected March 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Blurb Reason
Hōnen Matsuri in Japan essentially unreferenced stub
44 BCDictator Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic was stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators. neutrality tag
1311 – The Catalan Company defeated Walter V of Brienne in the Battle of the Cephissus and took control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece. needs more footnotes
1781American Revolutionary War: A British force under General Lord Cornwallis, numbering 1,900, fought 4,400 American troops under Rhode Island native General Nathanael Greene at the Battle of Guilford Court House inside present-day Greensboro, North Carolina. unreferenced sections
1877Cricketers representing England and Australia began the first match in Test cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. more footnotes, English cricket team in Australia in 1876–77 article is tagged with {{refimprove}}
1906Charles Rolls and Henry Royce founded the British automobile manufacturing company Rolls-Royce. unreferenced section
1939 – Nazi German troops began their occupation of Czechoslovakia and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. both tagged with {{refimprove}}
1972The Godfather, a gangster film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, was released. refimprove section
1989 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs, a government-run military veteran benefit system, was established as a Cabinet-level position. citations missing
2011Arab Spring: Protests erupted across Syria against the authoritarian government. unbalanced

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Notes

March 15: Ides of March; National Day in Hungary (1848)

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