March 15

Today in History
• 0933 - Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren
• 1360 - France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
• 1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
• 1580 - Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold bounty on prince Willem of Orange
• 1672 - King Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
• 1729 - Sister St. Stanislas Hachard, 1st U.S. nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
• 1744 - French King Louis XV declares war on England
• 1827 - Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• 1848 Revolution Memorial Day
• Belarus Constitution Day
• Honen Matsuri
• Ides of March
• National Peanut Lovers Day
• Ramakrishna Jayanti
• World Essential Workers Day
• Artes Mundi

Birthdays
• 0270 - Saint Nicholas, Greek Bishop who became the model for Santa Claus
• 0938 - Romanos II, Byzantine emperor
• 1493 - Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France
• 1638 - Shunzhi Emperor of China (1644-1661)
• 1767 - Andrew Jackson, General and 7th President, 1829-37
• 1779 - William Lamb, Whig, Viscount Melbourne, British Prime Minister
• 1801 - Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer
• 1809 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st President of Liberia