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Ides simply referred to first new moon, 
which usually fell between 
the thirteenth and fifteenth day
of a given month.

Smithsonian Magazine history buff
Tom A. Frail
posted March 4, 2010 issue
url = https://www.smithsonianmag.com/
history/top-ten-reasons-to-beware-
the-ides-of-march-8664107/
top ten reasons to 
beware the ides of march.

The following events all occurred
fifteenth of March 
across span of millenniums.

One: Assassination of fifty five year old 
Julius Caesar, 44 Before Common Era
Two thousand and sixty six years ago
conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus 
stab dictator-for-life Julius Caesar 
to death before the Roman senate. 

Two: A Raid on Southern England, 
1360 Anno Domini.
A French raiding party begins 
a 48-hour spree of rape, pillage and murder 
in southern England. 

King Edward III interrupts 
his own pillaging spree in France 
to launch reprisals, 
writes historian Barbara Tuchman, 
“on discovering that the French 
could act as viciously in his realm 
as the English did in France.”

Three: Samoan Cyclone, 1889
A cyclone wrecks six warships—
three U.S., three German—
in the harbor at Apia, Samoa, 
leaving more than 200 sailors dead. 

(On the other hand, 
the ships represented 
each nation’s show of force 
in a competition to see 
who would annex Samoan islands; 
the disaster averted a likely war.)

Four: Czar Nicholas II 
abdicates his throne, 1917
Czar Nicholas II of Russia 
signs his abdication papers, 
ending a 304-year-old royal dynasty 
and ushering in Bolshevik rule. 

He and his family taken captive 
and, in July 1918, executed 
before a firing squad.

Five: Germany Occupies Czechoslovakia, 1939
Just six months after 
Czechoslovak leaders ceded Sudetenland, 
Nazi troops seize provinces 
of Bohemia and Moravia, 
effectively wiping Czechoslovakia 
off the map.

Six: A Deadly Blizzard 
on the Great Plains, 1941
A Saturday-night blizzard 
strikes northern Great Plains, 
leaving at least 60 people dead 
in North Dakota and Minnesota 
and six more 
in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. 

A light evening snow 
did not deter people from going out—
“after all, Saturday night 
meant time for socializing,” 
Diane Boit of Hendrum, Minnesota, 
would recall—but “suddenly 
the wind switched, 
and a rumbling sound 
could be heard as 
60 mile-an-hour winds 
swept down out of the north.”

Seven: World Record Rainfall, 1952
Rain falls on Indian Ocean island 
of La Réunion—and keeps falling, 
hard enough to register world’s 
most voluminous 24-hour rainfall: 73.62 inches.

Eight: CBS Cancels 
the “Ed Sullivan Show,” 1971
Word leaks that CBS-TV  
cancelled “The Ed Sullivan Show” 
after 23 years on the network, 
which also dumped Red Skelton 
and Jackie Gleason 
in the preceding month. 

A generation mourns.
Nine: Disappearing Ozone Layer, 1988
NASA reports the ozone layer 
over Northern Hemisphere   
depleted three times faster than predicted.
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