March 15

44 BC – Fearing his concentration of political power as permanent dictator and his personal popularity with the masses would result in him declaring himself King, Julius Caesar is assassinated by a group of Senators

1564 – Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes the jizya tax on non moslem subjects in India.

1783 – At Newburgh, New York, George Washington publicly speaks to his officers to not support a purported conspiracy to stage a military takeover of the government, due to the army not being paid.

1916 – President Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the border into Mexico to pursue Pancho Villa, after his attack on Columbus, New Mexico.

1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first, and the last, President of the Soviet Union.

1991 – The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, restoring full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany and beginning the process for the reunification with the German Democratic Republic

2019 – Brenton Harrison Tarrant murders 51 people and wounds 40 more in an attack at a moslem mosque and islamic center in Christchurch, New Zealand.