Template:On this day - March 15

Nuño de Guzmán

• 44 BC (Ides of March) – Julius Caesar is assassinated by a group of Roman senators nicknamed the Liberatores, led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus (b. 100 BC).
• 859 – Leocritia, a Muslim woman converted to Christianity, is beheaded under the emirate of Muhammad I of Córdoba (present-day Spain) (b. 9th century).
• 1493 – In Spain, Christopher Columbus, with the Pinzón brothers and their men, lands at the port of Palos de la Frontera after his first voyage to America.
• 1530 – In Jalisco (New Spain, present-day Mexico), the Spanish soldier Nuño de Guzmán conquers the chiefdom of Ocotlán.
• 1552 – In Puebla (New Spain, present-day Mexico), the village of Teziutlán is refounded.
• 1720 – In the Viceroyalty of Peru, the town of Saña is destroyed by a flood.
• 1750 – In New Spain, the Oidor of the Real Audiencia of Mexico and former governor of the province of Sonora and Sinaloa, José Rafael Rodríguez Gallardo, presents his report.
• 1863 – Spain recognizes the independence of Honduras.
• 1878 – At Mangos de Baraguá, the Cuban major general Antonio Maceo y Grajales holds an interview (known as the Protest of Baraguá) with the Spanish general Arsenio Martínez Campos.
• 1915 – Death of Fernando Tarrida del Mármol, Cuban anarchist activist and writer of Spanish origin (b. 1861).
• 1916 – The President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, sends 12,000 U.S. soldiers across the Mexican border in search of Pancho Villa.
• 1918 – Death of Rogelio Fernández Güell, Costa Rican politician, writer and journalist, murdered by the Tinoco dictatorship (b. 1883).
• 1936 – In the Argentine town of Oberá (Misiones Province), hundreds of Ukrainian, Polish and Russian settlers with their families are shot at by the police and local merchants while demonstrating peacefully to demand a fair price for agricultural products.
• 1941 – Death of Abigaíl Mejía, Dominican feminist, suffragist, educator and photographer (b. 1895).
• 1945 – In Guatemala City, the pedagogue and philosopher Juan José Arévalo takes office as president.
• 1951 – In Guatemala City, the soldier and nationalist Jacobo Árbenz takes office as president; he will be overthrown by the U.S. CIA.
• 1957 – In Santo Domingo, the statutes of the Ibero-American Education Office (OEI) are approved.
• 1975 – Death of Leónidas Barletta, Argentine writer, journalist and playwright (b. 1902).
• 1996 – In Equatorial Guinea, President Teodoro Obiang is invested as Head of State.
• 2020 – In Spain, the state of alarm due to the pandemic of COVID-19 comes into force, and the population is confined.
• 2020 – In Argentina, President Alberto Fernández decreed the "National Quarantine" to try to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. Classes were therefore suspended, risk groups were given leave, and the borders were closed.
• 2020 – In Guatemala, a national quarantine is decreed to try to prevent the transmission of COVID-19.
• 2020 – In Peru, President Martín Vizcarra decrees a national quarantine to try to prevent the transmission of COVID-19.
• 2018 – Death of Alicia Bustamante, Cuban actress and teacher (b. 1908).
• 2021 – Death of Emiliano González, Mexican writer and poet (b. 1955).