15th March
44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 227 v Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
16th March
1527 Battle of Khanua: Mughal Emperor Babur defeats Rajput forces led by Rana Sanga consolidating Mughal power
1881 Barnum & Bailey Circus debuts
17th March
1905 Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his Quantum Theory of Light, one of the foundations of modern physics
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
18th March
1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience
1965 Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space
19th March
1958 Britain’s first planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud’s, London
1994 Largest omelet (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan
20th March
1602 United Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) forms
1739 Iranian ruler Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne
21th March
1975 Ethiopia abolishes its monarchy after 3,000 years
1979 Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel
