This Day In European History

15th March

Events
933: Battle of Riade; Henry I of Germany defeats a Magyar army.
1890: The International Congress for the Protection of Workers begins in Berlin.
1907: The first women MPs, anywhere in the world, are elected in Finland.
1917: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates.
1933 The Third Reich is proclaimed in Germany by Adolf Hitler.

Births
1854: Emil von Behring, German scientist.

Deaths
44 BCE Gaius Julius Caesar, assassinated.
1673: Salvator Rosa, Neapolitan artist.
1898: Henry Bessemer, British engineer and inventor of the Bessemer Process to make cheaper steel.

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