On March 15, history records 46 notable events, 206 famous births and 94 deaths, spanning the years 220 to 1564.
Events on this day include: Cao Cao, Chinese warlord and penultimate Chancellor of the Han dynasty passes away. (220); Sun Hao of Eastern Wu surrenders to Sima Yan which began the Jin dynasty. (280).
Notable people born on March 15 include Saint Nicholas (270), Fujiwara no Tadamichi (1097), Margaret of England, Duchess of Brabant (1275).
Notable figures who died on this day include Cao Cao (220), Odoacer (493), Pope Zachary (752).
Events on 15 March 46
See all →Cao Cao, Chinese warlord and penultimate Chancellor of the Han dynasty passes away.
Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
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.
Michael III, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, overthrows the regency of his mother, empress Theodora (wife of Theophilos) with support of the Byzantine nobility.
After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
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.
Birthdays on 15 March 206
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Deaths on 15 March 94
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