Editing March 15 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[474 BC]] &ndash; [[Roman consul]] [[Aulus Manlius Vulso (decemvir)|Aulus Manlius Vulso]] celebrates an [[ovation]] for concluding the [[Roman–Etruscan Wars#Veii-Sabine alliance 475-474 BC|war]] against [[Veii]] and securing a forty years truce.<ref>''[[Fasti Triumphales]]''</ref> 
*[[44 BC]] &ndash; The [[assassination of Julius Caesar|assassination]] of [[Julius Caesar]], the [[Roman dictator|dictator]] of the [[Roman Republic]], by a group of senators takes place on the [[Ides of March]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Strauss|first=Barry|title=The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination|location=New York|publisher=Simon and Schuster|date=2015|isbn=9781451668797|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d3lZCwAAQBAJ|pages=129–137}}</ref>
* [[493]] &ndash; [[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.<ref>{{cite book|last=O'Donnell|first=James J.|title=The Ruin of the Roman Empire|location=New York|publisher=Ecco|date=2009|isbn=9780060787417|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7_20RbeAO5cC|page=66}}</ref>
* [[856]] &ndash; [[Michael III]], emperor of the [[Byzantine Empire]], overthrows the regency of his mother, empress [[Theodora (wife of Theophilos)|Theodora]] (wife of Theophilos) with support of the Byzantine [[nobility]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Tobias|first=Norman|title=Basil I, Founder of the Macedonian Dynasty: A Study of the Political and Military History of the Byzantine Empire in the Ninth Century|location=Lewiston, N.Y.|publisher=The Edwin Mellen Press|date=2007|isbn=9780773454057|page=287}}</ref>
* [[897]] &ndash;  [[Al-Hadi ila'l-Haqq Yahya]] enters [[Sa'dah]] and founds the [[Zaydi]] [[Imamate of Yemen]].<ref>{{EI2|volume=12|last=Madelung|first=W.|author-link=Wilferd Madelung|title=al-Ḥādī Ila 'l-Ḥaḳḳ|pages=334–335|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_8582}}</ref>
* [[933]] &ndash; After a ten-year truce, German King [[Henry the Fowler]] defeats a Hungarian army at the [[Battle of Riade]] near the [[Unstrut]] river.<ref>{{cite book|last=Browning|first=Oscar|title=A General History of the World|location=London|publisher=E. Arnold|date=1913|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W18yAQAAMAAJ|page=321}}</ref>
*[[1311]] &ndash; [[Battle of Halmyros]]: The [[Catalan Company]] defeats [[Walter V, Count of Brienne]] to take control of the [[Duchy of Athens]], a [[Crusader states|Crusader state]] in Greece.<ref>{{cite book|last=Laiou|first=Angeliki E.|author-link=Angeliki Laiou |title=Constantinople and the Latins: The Foreign Policy of Andronicus II, 1282-1328|location=Cambridge, Mass.|publisher=Harvard University Press|date=1972|isbn=9780674165359|pages=226–227}}</ref>
*[[1564]] &ndash; Mughal Emperor [[Akbar]] abolishes the ''[[jizya]]'' tax on [[Dhimmi|non-Muslim]] subjects.<ref>{{cite book|last=Srivastava|first=Ashirbadi Lal|title=Akbar the Great|location=Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India|publisher=Shiva Lal Agarwala|date=1962|oclc=837892|page=83}}</ref>