| 28771 | March 15 | Event | 1877 – First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia. |
| 28772 | March 15 | Event | 1888 – Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888. |
| 28773 | March 15 | Event | 1892 – Liverpool F.C. is founded. |
| 28774 | March 15 | Event | 1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated. |
| 28775 | March 15 | Event | 1916 – United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa. |
| 28776 | March 15 | Event | 1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar. |
| 28777 | March 15 | Event | 1921 – Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian. |
| 28778 | March 15 | Event | 1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt. |
| 28779 | March 15 | Event | 1926 – The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition. |
| 28780 | March 15 | Event | 1927 – The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford. |
| 28781 | March 15 | Event | 1931 – SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board. |
| 28782 | March 15 | Event | 1933 – Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the Austrofascist dictatorship. |
| 28783 | March 15 | Event | 1935 – Percy Shaw founded his company Reflecting Roadstuds Limited to make cat's eyes. |
| 28784 | March 15 | Event | 1939 – World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. |
| 28785 | March 15 | Event | 1939 – Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day. |
| 28786 | March 15 | Event | 1941 – Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its ori |
| 28787 | March 15 | Event | 1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting. |
| 28788 | March 15 | Event | 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia. |
| 28789 | March 15 | Event | 1952 – In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16). |
| 28790 | March 15 | Event | 1956 – My Fair Lady debuts on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. |
| 28791 | March 15 | Event | 1961 – South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 28792 | March 15 | Event | 1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act. |
| 28793 | March 15 | Event | 1978 – Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War. |
| 28794 | March 15 | Event | 1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com). |
| 28795 | March 15 | Event | 1985 – Brazilian military government ends. |
| 28796 | March 15 | Event | 1986 – Collapse of the Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses. |
| 28797 | March 15 | Event | 1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union. |
| 28798 | March 15 | Event | 1991 – The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany. |
| 28799 | March 15 | Event | 2011 – Beginning of the Syrian Civil War. |
| 28800 | March 15 | Birth | 270 – Saint Nicholas, Greek bishop (d. 343) |