Editing March 15 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1907]] &ndash; The [[1907 Finnish parliamentary election|first parliamentary elections]] of [[Finland]] (at the time the [[Grand Duchy of Finland]]) are held.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://yle.fi/news/3-5778358|title=A Century On, Finns Head Back to Ballot Booths|work=[[Yle News]]|date=March 15, 2007|access-date=March 14, 2022}}</ref>
*[[1917]] &ndash; [[Tsar]] [[Nicholas II of Russia]] abdicates the Russian throne, ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nicholas II {{!}} Biography, Wife, Abdication, Death, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicholas-II-tsar-of-Russia |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=11 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Romanov rumors are put to rest |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-mar-11-sci-romanov11-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=11 August 2022 |date=11 March 2009}}</ref>
*[[1918]] &ndash; [[Finnish Civil War]]: The [[battle of Tampere]] begins.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/100_years_ago_today_reds_take_tampere_finnish_civil_war_begins/10044586 |title=100 years ago today: Reds take Tampere, Finnish Civil War begins |work=[[Yle]] |date=27 January 2018 |access-date=6 October 2021}}</ref>
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[Ukrainian War of Independence]]: The [[Kontrrazvedka]] is established as the [[counterintelligence]] division of the [[Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Azarov|first=Vyacheslav|year=2008|title=Kontrrazvedka - The Story of the Makhnovist Intelligence Service|translator-first=Malcolm|translator-last=Archibald|location=[[Edmonton]]|publisher=Black Cat Press|isbn=978-0-9737827-2-1|oclc=233786926|pages=13–14}}</ref>
*1919 – The [[American Legion]] is founded.
*[[1921]] &ndash; [[Talaat Pasha]], former Grand Vizir of the [[Ottoman Empire]] and chief architect of the [[Armenian genocide]] is [[Assassination of Talat Pasha|assassinated in Berlin]] by a 23-year-old Armenian, [[Soghomon Tehlirian]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hofmann |first1=Tessa |title=A Hundred Years Ago: The Assassination of Mehmet Talaat (15 March 1921) and the Berlin Criminal Proceedings against Soghomon Tehlirian (2/3 June 1921): Background, Context, Effect |journal=International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies |date=2020 |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=67–90 |doi=10.51442/ijags.0009 |url=http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/pdf/IJAGS-5.1-2020-Text-05.03.2021.pdf |issn=1829-4405|doi-access=free }}</ref>
*[[1922]] &ndash; After [[Egypt]] gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, [[Fuad I of Egypt|Fuad I]] becomes [[King of Egypt]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hussain |first1=Majid Salman |title=British Policy and the Nationalist Movement in Egypt, 1914-1924: A political study |date=10 August 2020 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-11-220916-5 |page=188 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4rT8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA188 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1927]] &ndash; The first [[Women's Boat Race]] between the [[University of Oxford]] and the [[University of Cambridge]] takes place on [[The Isis]] in [[Oxford]].<ref>{{cite magazine | magazine= Homertonian | title=Rowing Into The History Books | date=Aug 3, 2015 | pages= 8–9 | issue= 19 | url=https://issuu.com/homerton/docs/homertonian_19_proof_final_web/8}}</ref>
*[[1939]] &ndash; [[German occupation of Czechoslovakia|Germany occupies Czechoslovakia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radio.cz/en/section/czech-history/march-15-1939-the-day-czechoslovakia-ceased-to-exist|title=March 15, 1939 - The day Czechoslovakia ceased to exist|date=March 15, 2019|access-date=March 3, 2020}}</ref>
*  1939   &ndash; [[Carpatho-Ukraine]] declares itself an independent republic,<ref>{{cite web |title=Ukraine - Transcarpathia in Czechoslovakia {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/Transcarpathia-in-Czechoslovakia |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=11 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref> but is annexed by Hungary the next day.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Halemba |first1=Agnieszka |title=Negotiating Marian Apparitions: The Politics of Religion in Transcarpathian Ukraine |date=1 October 2015 |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=978-963-386-145-5 |page=106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_4OEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA106 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Third Battle of Kharkov|Third Battle of Kharkiv]]: The Germans retake the city of [[Kharkiv]] from the Soviet armies.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Zabecki |first1=David T. |title=The German War Machine in World War II: An Encyclopedia |date=2 December 2019 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-4408-6918-1 |page=130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uD_BDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA130 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1951]] &ndash; Iranian oil industry is [[Nationalization of the Iranian oil industry|nationalized]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Goode |first1=James F. |title=The United States and Iran: In the Shadow of Musaddiq |date=27 July 2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-349-25596-2 |page=191 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QCq_DAAAQBAJ&dq==&pg=PA191 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1961]] &ndash; At the [[1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference]], South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the [[South African Constitution of 1961]] comes into effect.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harrison |first1=David |title=The White Tribe of Africa |date=1 October 1983 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-05066-2 |page=166 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LgwWMUbyNVUC&pg=PA166 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1965]] &ndash; President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], responding to the [[Selma, Alabama|Selma]] crisis, tells [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] "We shall overcome" while advocating the [[Voting Rights Act]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Selma March - "We Shall Overcome": LBJ and the 1965 Voting Rights Act {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Selma-March/We-Shall-Overcome-LBJ-and-the-1965-Voting-Rights-Act |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=11 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1974]] &ndash; Fifteen people are killed when [[Sterling Airways Flight 901]], a [[Sud Aviation Caravelle]], catches fire following a [[landing gear]] collapse at [[Mehrabad International Airport]] in [[Tehran]], Iran.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle 10B3 OY-STK Tehran-Mehrabad Airport (THR)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19740315-0|access-date=2021-03-14|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1978]] &ndash; [[Somalia]] and [[Ethiopia]] signed a truce to end the [[Ethio-Somali War]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Spencer C. |title=A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East [6 volumes]: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East |date=23 December 2009 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-672-5 |page=2513 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h5_tSnygvbIC&pg=PA2513 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1986]] &ndash; [[Collapse of Hotel New World]]: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Neale |first1=Brian S. |title=Forensic Engineering: The Investigation of Failures : Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Forensic Engineering Organized by the Institution of Civil Engineers and Held in London, UK, on 12-13 November, 2001 |date=2001 |publisher=Thomas Telford |isbn=978-0-7277-3094-7 |page=127 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PjiniwA--rsC&pg=PA127 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] is elected as the first [[President of the Soviet Union]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Remnick |first1=David |title=GORBACHEV ELECTED PRESIDENT |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/03/15/gorbachev-elected-president/a0e4b785-dad1-45bc-a2cc-308424e4e454/ |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=11 August 2022 |date=15 March 1990}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: The [[Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany]] comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the [[Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dörr |first1=Oliver |last2=Schmalenbach |first2=Kirsten |title=Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: A Commentary |date=22 November 2011 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-3-642-19291-3 |page=995 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GJ0fxh7GNB8C&pg=PA995 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[2008]] &ndash; Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition [[2008 Gërdec explosions|explode]] at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of [[Gërdec]], Albania, killing 26 people.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kulish |first1=Nicholas |title=After Munitions Explosion, Albanians Ask Why Danger Was Placed So Near |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/19/world/europe/19albania.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=11 August 2022 |date=19 April 2008}}</ref>
*[[2011]] &ndash; Beginning of the [[Syrian revolution]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Syrian Civil War - Uprising in Syria, 2011– |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Syrian-Civil-War/Uprising-in-Syria-2011 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=8 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[2019]] &ndash; Fifty-one people are killed in the [[Christchurch mosque shootings]].<ref>{{cite web |title=New Zealand mosque shooter considers appealing life sentence |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealand-mosque-shooter-considers-appealing-life-sentence-2021-11-08/ |website=Reuters |access-date=11 August 2022 |language=en |date=8 November 2021}}</ref>
*  2019   &ndash; Beginning of the [[2019–20 Hong Kong protests]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Protesters arrested in Hong Kong over proposed China extradition law |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-politics-extradition-idUSKCN1QW1AC |website=Reuters |access-date=8 October 2021 |language=en |date=15 March 2019}}</ref>
*  2019   &ndash; Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries [[School strike for climate|go on strike]] to protest climate change.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/3/15/18267156/youth-climate-strike-march-15-photos|title=Photos: kids in 123 countries went on strike to protect the climate|last1=Barclay|first1=Eliza|last2=Amaria|first2=Kainaz|publisher=Vox|date=March 17, 2019|access-date=March 17, 2019}}</ref>
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*[[2022]] &ndash; The [[2022 Sri Lankan protests]] begins amidst [[2019–present Sri Lankan economic crisis|Sri Lanka's economic collapse]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://thediplomat.com/2022/04/sri-lankas-leaderless-protests/ | title=Sri Lanka's Leaderless Protests }}</ref>