Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 15
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March 15: Dhulandi (Holi) in Hinduism (2006)
- 44 BC - Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic was stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
- 1877 - History of cricket: Cricketers representing England and Australia played the first Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1906 - Charles Rolls and Henry Royce founded the automobile manufacturing company Rolls-Royce.
- 1917 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (pictured) was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.
- 1939 - German troops began the occupation of Czechoslovakia; the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed the following day.
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