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March 7 in history

192 sourced entries recorded on March 7, from 150 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 321Constantine I signs legislation directing urban residents to refrain from work, and businesses to be closed, on the "venerable day of the Sun". An exception is made for agriculture.source
  • 1025Count Herbert I of Maine, is imprisoned at Saintes after being lured there by Count Fulk III of Anjou, who had promised to reward Herbert with control of Saintes. Herbert is held captive for two years before other nobles force his release.source
  • 1138Conrad III is elected as King of Germany, in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin at Koblenz. He is crowned at Aachen six days later (on March 13), and acknowledged in Bamberg by several German princes of southern Germany. Henry X (the Proud), son-in-law and heir of the late King Lothair III, refuses his allegiance to Conrad. He is deprived of all his Saxon territories, which are given to Leopold IV (the Generous).source
  • 1148King Conrad III recovers from his wounds and leaves Constantinople with his household. He is well supplied with money by Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and uses these funds to recruit pilgrims to augment the forces that remain to him. Conrad and his re-equipped Crusaders sail with a Byzantine fleet to Palestine. The fleet is scattered by storms and lands in different ports.source
  • 1277Condemnation of 1277: Pope John XXI instructs Étienne Tempier, bishop of Paris, to investigate the complaints of theologians in France. By order 219 propositions of philosophical and theological doctrines such as Averroism are prohibited from discussion in the University of Paris, under a decree promulgated by Tempier.source
  • 1286The Catholicon, a religious Latin dictionary, is completed by John of Genoa.source
  • 1368Mamluk raid on Cyprus (1368): Acting at the orders of Egypt's Mamluk Sultan al-Ashraf Sha'ban, General Ibrahim al-Tazi lands with 500 troops at Cyprus and begins a 23-day raid.source
  • 1368The new Ōan era is proclaimed in Japan, ending the Jōji era because of problems in 1367 with an epidemic and natural disasters.source
  • 1407At 12 years old, Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga becomes the new Marquis of Mantua, and area encompassing much of the Lombardy region of Italy, upon the death of his father, Francesco I Gonzaga.source
  • 1423After failing to defeat Hushang Shah in a siege of Salangpur, the Gujarat Sultan Ahmad Shah I is attacked by Hushang's army while on his way back to Ahmedabad. He wins the battle and resumes his trip home.source
  • 1432The seventh Ming Chinese overseas expedition fleet, led by Admiral Zheng He, arrives at the port of Surabaya on the island of Java (now in Indonesia). The Chinese do trading until leaving on July 13source
  • 1524Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado destroys the Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj, taking the capital, Quiché.source
  • 1526In Switzerland, the Canton of Zurich enacts a law directed against the Anabaptist movement, specifically outlawing a second baptism of an adult who was previously baptized as an infant, and makes the crime punishable by drowning. The penalty is enforced for the first time on January 5, 1527, when Felix Manz is executed.source
  • 1543Abu Abdallah Muhammad VI is installed as the new ruler of the Kingdom of Tlemcen in modern-day Algeria, succeeding his brother Abu Zayyan III.source
  • 1543Massive flooding of the Mississippi River and the Arkansas River begins in southeastern North America over a 40 day period while Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and his team are passing through. The event is noted by the chronicler of the DeSoto Expedition, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.source
  • 1560A Spanish-led expedition, commanded by Juan de la Cerda, 4th Duke of Medinaceli, overruns the Tunisian island of Djerba.source
  • 1573The Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573) is ended by a peace treaty, confirming the transfer of control of Cyprus from the Republic of Venice to the Ottoman Empire, and also confirming Turkish occupation of the more fertile region of Dalmatia.source
  • 1593March 7 (February 25 Old Style) – The Uppsala Synod discontinues; the Liturgical Struggle between the Swedish Reformation and Counter-Reformation ends in Sweden.source
  • 1601In India, Mughal Empire Prince Daniyal Mirza, son of the Emperor Akbar, is named the ruler of Khandesh, after having completed the conquest of the sultanate of Ahmednagar.source
  • 1617Francis Bacon is appointed as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and is designated by King James I to serve as regent during the time that the King of England is away from Westminster to travel to Scotland.source
  • 1623Charles, Prince of Wales, the future King Charles I of England, travelling incognito with royal favourite George Villiers, arrives in Madrid to pursue negotiations over the "Spanish match", the Protestant Charles's proposed marriage with the Catholic Habsburg Infanta Maria Anna of Spain.source
  • 1626Ambrósio I Nimi a Nkanga becomes the new monarch of Kongo (in what is now Angola) after the overthrow of Garcia I Mvemba a Nkanga, restoring the Kwilu dynasty to power.source
  • 1641King Charles I of England decrees that all Roman Catholic priests must leave England by April 7 or face being arrested and treated as traitors.source
  • 1656The First War of Villmergen in the Confederation of Switzerland ends with a peace agreement, mediated by France and the Duchy of Savoy, between the Protestant and Roman Catholic cantons.source
  • 1665HMS London accidentally explodes in the Thames Estuary killing 300 with only 24 survivors.source
  • 1670Oliver Plunkett, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh since 1669, is allowed to return to Ireland for the first time in more than 22 years, after a new policy of tolerance of Catholicism is enacted in England. Plunkett had departed for Rome in 1647 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Executed in 1681 on false charges of plotting an invasion of Ireland, Plunkett is canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in 1975.source
  • 1670Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, sets foot on Irish soil for the first time in 23 years.source
  • 1695John Trevor, Speaker of the English House of Commons, is expelled from the House by vote of the members, after being found guilty of accepting a bribe of 1000 pounds sterling from the City of London Corporation.source
  • 1695Sir John Trevor, Speaker of the House of Commons, is found guilty of taking a bribe and expelled from the Commons.source
  • 1696King William III of England departs from the Netherlands.source
  • 1704War of the Spanish Succession: Prince Karl of Habsburg, brother of Joseph I, the Holy Roman Emperor and a pretender to the throne of Spain, arrives in Portugal on the English warship HMS Royal Katherine as part of George Rooke's English fleet sailing into Lisbon.source
  • 1714The Treaty of Rastatt is signed between Austria and France, concluding the War of the Spanish Succession between them. Austria receives the Spanish territories in Italy (the Kingdom of Naples, Duchy of Milan and Kingdom of Sardinia), as well as the Southern Netherlands; and from France, Freiburg and Landau. The Austrian Habsburg Empire reaches its largest territorial extent yet, with Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor succeeding Philip V of Spain, as ruler in the ceded territories.source
  • 1714The Treaty of Rastatt, between France and Austriasource
  • 1727Ending of Battle of Halidzor and victory for the Armenian soldiers of Syunik.source
  • 1747Juan de Arechederra the Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines, combines his forces with those of Sultan Azim ud-Din I of Sulu to suppress the rebellion of the Moros in the Visayas.source
  • 1760HDMS Amack and HDMS Falster are launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.source
  • 1785Scottish geologist James Hutton first presents his landmark work, Theory of the Earth; or an Investigation of the Laws observable in the Composition, Dissolution, and Restoration of Land upon the Globe to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.source
  • 1785geologist James Hutton proposes the theory of uniformitarianism to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.source
  • 1785James Hutton proposes the theory of uniformitarianism to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.source
  • 1792A settlement is formed in Sierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.source
  • 1792a settlement is formed in Sierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.source
  • 1798French forces invade the Papal States and establish the Roman Republic.source
  • 1799War of the Second Coalition: Siege of Jaffa – Napoleon captures Jaffa in Palestine from the Ottomans and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.source
  • 1804Thomas Charles is instrumental in founding the British and Foreign Bible Society.source
  • 1804Thomas Charles is instrumental in founding the Bible Society.source
  • 1804Inauguration of the British and Foreign Bible Society, largely at the instigation of Thomas Charles.source
  • 1804John Wedgwood founds the Royal Horticultural Society.source
  • 1804John Wedgwood founds the Royal Horticultural Society as the Horticultural Society of London. Another founding member, William Forsyth, dies on 25 July.source
  • 1808Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil: The Portuguese royal court arrives in Rio de Janeiro, making it the centre of the Portuguese Empire.source
  • 1814Francisco de la Lastra is elected as the first Supreme Director of Chile.source
  • 1817Bible Society of New South Wales is formed.source
  • 1821The Battle of Rieti is fought in Italy between intervening Austrian forces and Neapolitan rebels.source
  • 1824In the Florida Territory, the announcement is made from St. Augustine that the capital will be moved to Tallahassee.source
  • 1826Ellen Turner, a wealthy 15-year-old heiress from Cheshire in England, is kidnapped by Edward Gibbon Wakefield. On May 14, Wakefield, his brother and a servant are sentenced to three years' imprisonment for the crime. Wakefield later becomes politically active in the colonisation of New Zealand.source
  • 1827Brazilian marines sail up the Rio Negro and attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina; they are defeated by the local citizens.source
  • 1827Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy 15-year-old heiress from Cheshire, is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield. On 14 May Wakefield, his brother and a servant are sentenced to three years' imprisonment for the crime. Wakefield later becomes a colonial politician.source
  • 1831Royal Astronomical Society receives its Royal Charter.source
  • 1838Jenny Lind as her breakthrough in Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.source
  • 1839Baltimore City College, the third public high school in the United States, is established in Baltimore, Maryland.source
  • 1848Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris, predecessor of European bank BNP Paribas, is founded by decree of the French Provisional Government.source
  • 1848The Provisional government establishes the Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris, a national bank which is the earliest predecessor of BNP Paribas.source
  • 1850United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech, in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850, in order to prevent a possible civil war.source
  • 1860HMS Howe, the Royal Navy’s last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line, is launched at Pembroke Dockyard but never completed for sea service.source
  • 1865New Brunswick rejects a Confederation scheme.source
  • 1876Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for the telephone.source
  • 1880Reception in the winter garden at Royal Palace of Laken to celebrate the engagement of Princess Stéphanie of Belgium to Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria.source
  • 1884Eugène Poubelle introduces the dustbin to Paris.source
  • 1885The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madrid is founded.source
  • 1885founding of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madridsource
  • 18877 March–18 April – The Times publishes a series of articles on "Parnellism and Crime" quoting letters, subsequently confessed to be forgeries, intended to discredit Charles Stewart Parnell by appearing to show him as implicated in illegal activities, in particular, support for the 1882 Phoenix Park Murders.source
  • 1887North Carolina State University is established, as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.source
  • 18917 March England 6–1 Ireland (in Wolverhampton)source
  • 1892March 6–8 – Exclusive Agreement: Rulers of six Trucial States (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras al-Khaimah and Umm al-Quwain) and Bahrain sign an agreement, by which they become de facto British protectorates.source
  • 1902Second Boer War: Battle of Tweebosch – South African Boers win their last battle over the British Army, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men.source
  • 1912Roald Amundsen, in Hobart, Tasmania, announces his success in reaching the South Pole the previous December.source
  • 1912Roald Amundsen announced his success in reaching the South Polesource
  • 1913Alum Chine explosion: British freighter Alum Chine, carrying 343 tons of dynamite, explodes in the harbour of Baltimore, Maryland.source
  • 1913The British freighter Alum Chine, carrying 343 tons of dynamite, explodes in Baltimore harbor.source
  • 1917"Livery Stable Blues", recorded with "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" on February 26, by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in the United States, becomes the first jazz recording commercially released. On August 17 the band records "Tiger Rag".source
  • 1917"Livery Stable Blues", recorded with "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" on February 26 by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, becomes the first jazz recording commercially released. On August 17 the band records "Tiger Rag".source
  • 1921Francis Edward Mostyn is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff.source
  • 1921The Commonwealth Department of Health is formed.source
  • 19241924 Argentine legislative electionsource
  • 1925The Public Security Preservation Law of 1925 (治安維持法, Chian Iji Hō) is passed in the diet. It forbade conspiracy and revolt, and it criminalized socialism and communism. It was one of the most significant laws of pre-war Japan.source
  • 1927End of the Independence Tribunalssource
  • 19271927 Kita Tango earthquake: A 7.0 Mw earthquake kills at least 2,925 in the Toyooka and Mineyama areas of western Honshu, in Japan.source
  • 1927Kita Tango earthquake: with a moment magnitude of 7.0. Up to 2,956 people were killed 7,806 were injured. Almost all the houses in Mineyama (now part of Kyōtango) were destroyed as a result. The earthquake was felt as far away as Tokyo and Kagoshima.source
  • 1931The Finnish Parliament House opens in Helsinki, Finland.source
  • 1936In violation of the Treaty of Versailles and Locarno Treaties, Nazi Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. Hitler and other Nazis later admit that the French army alone could have destroyed the Wehrmacht.source
  • 1936In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.source
  • 1936March 2–8. Strike action at Polish-Swiss Chocolate Factory Philippe Suchard in Kraków,source
  • 1939Harland and Wolff's Belfast shipyard launched the ocean liner RMS Andes for Royal Mail Lines.source
  • 1939Nationalist transport ship SS Castillo de Olite sunk by Republican shore batteries while entering the port of Cartagena.source
  • 1945WWII: At the end of Operation Lumberjack, American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine at Remagen, Germany and begin to cross; in the next 10 days, 25,000 troops with equipment are able to cross.source
  • 1946The 18th Academy Awards Ceremony is held. Best Picture goes to The Lost Weekend.source
  • 1949Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan presented Objectives Resolution in the assembly.source
  • 1956Several avalanche kill 21 people and causing heavy damage in Nordland and Troms.source
  • 1962Ash Wednesday Storm: A snow storm batters the Mid-Atlantic.source
  • 1965"Bloody Sunday": Some 200 Alabama State Troopers attack 525 civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama, as they attempt to march to the state capitol of Montgomery.source
  • 1965Mass in the Catholic Church worldwide is said in local languages (rather than Latin) for the first time.source
  • 1965Canadian Roman Catholic churches celebrate mass in the vernacular for the first time due to the reforms of Vatican IIsource
  • 1970A total solar eclipse affects the Maritimessource
  • 1971The British postal workers' strike, led by UPW General Secretary Tom Jackson, ends after 47 days.source
  • 1971Die Sendung mit der Maus airs its first episode on Das Erste.source
  • 1977Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's political party Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) wins elections. PPP wins 155, PNA 35 seats out of 200. Soon afterwards riots erupt over allegations of vote-rigging by the PPP.source
  • 1979The largest Magnetar (Soft gamma repeater) event is recorded.source
  • 1980An attack on a logging convoy north of Zamboanga City kills at least 13 lumberjacks and security men, and injures 14 others.source
  • 19871987 Lieyu massacre: The Republic of China Army execute 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees on Donggang beach, Lieyu, Kinmen off Mainland China.source
  • 1987Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first man to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket.source
  • 1989Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.source
  • 1990The Mongolian Democratic Union launched a hunger strike in order for the communists to resign.source
  • 1993A CIS peacekeeping force was deployed to Tajikistan.source
  • 1997In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers overrun a military base and kill over 100 Sri Lankan troops.source
  • 19991999 North Korean local electionssource
  • 2000February 23–March 7 – Mayon volcano in Albay erupts, with the most violent occurred, February 28 – March 1; its status is raised to the highest, Alert Level 5, on February 24 due to its hazardous explosions with pyroclastic and lahar flows that affected parts of the province, with several thousands evacuated even outside identified danger zones.source
  • 2002March 2–10 – Afghan and coalition troops carry out Operation Anaconda in the Shah-i-Kot Valley, the largest combat operation against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban to that point.source
  • 2004The White House reports that all of Libya's remaining nuclear weapons-related equipment has been sent to the United States.source
  • 2005Three members of the former military government, Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, go on trial accused of crimes against humanity during the civil war.source
  • 2009NASA's Kepler Mission, a space photometer that will search for extrasolar planets in the Milky Way galaxy, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA.source
  • 2012Sweden is reported to be helping Saudi Arabia construct plans for a weapons factory.source
  • 2014A statue of Iset, daughter of King Amenhotep III who was the grandfather of Tutankhamun and ruler of Ancient Egypt around 3,350 years ago, has been unearthed by a team of Egyptian and European archaeologists. The statue, which depicts Iset alone without her father, is the first of its kind ever discovered.source
  • 2015A suspected terrorist attack in Bamako kills five people.source
  • 2015March 5–8 – The ancient city sites of Nimrud, Hatra and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq are demolished by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.source
  • 2016Battle of Ben Guerdanesource
  • 2016March 7-8 - US Vice President Joe Biden started his five-day trip to the Middle East with a visit to the UAE.source
  • 2018Sierra Leonean general election, 2018source
  • 2022COVID-19 pandemic: The global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 6 million.source
  • 2022March 4 – March 13 – The 2022 Winter Paralympics are held in Beijing, China, making it the first city to host both Summer Paralympics and Winter Paralympics.source
  • 2024As the final Nordic country to join the alliance, Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member after Finland a year earlier.source
  • 2025Investigative outlets publish a video of immigration chief Alusine Kanneh receiving a gift from fugitive Dutch drug lord Johannes Leijdekkers at a Freetown restaurant, causing President Bio to fire him.source
  • 2025Brunei launches the BruneiID initiative.source

Births

  • 150Lucilla, Roman empress (died 182)source
  • 189Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor (died 211)source
  • 942Mu'ayyad al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Dynasty (died 983)source
  • 1220Giacomo Bianconi, Italian priest (died 1301)source
  • 1437Anna of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg (died 1512)source
  • 1481Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (died 1536)source
  • 1482Fray Thomas de San Martín, Roman Catholic prelate and bishop (died 1555)source
  • 1508Humayun (Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun), later Mughal emperor (died 1556)source
  • 1543John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, German prince and reigning count palatine of Simmern (died 1592)source
  • 1564Pierre Coton, Jesuit (died 1626)source
  • 1671Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (died 1734)source
  • 1678Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (died 1736)source
  • 1679Carl Gyllenborg, politician and writer (died 1744)source
  • 1693Pope Clement XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1769)source
  • 1707Stephen Hopkins, governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (died 1785)source
  • 17157 March (in Massachusetts) - Ephraim Williams, American landowner and slave owner of Welsh descent, founder of Williams College (died 1755)source
  • 1730Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, last prime minister of the French monarchy (died 1807)source
  • 1746André Michaux, French botanist (died 1802)source
  • 1765Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (died 1833)source
  • 1782Franz Sartori, Austrian writer (died 1832)source
  • 1792John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)source
  • 1849Luther Burbank, American biologist, botanist (died 1926)source
  • 1850Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, President of Czechoslovakia (died 1937)source
  • 1872Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (died 1944)source
  • 1875Maurice Ravel, French composer (died 1937)source
  • 1904Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi official (died 1942)source
  • 1922Olga Ladyzhenskaya, mathematiciansource

Deaths

  • 161Emperor Antoninus Pius dies, and is succeeded by Marcus Aurelius, who shares imperial power with Lucius Verus, although Marcus retains the title Pontifex Maximus.source
  • 161Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (born AD 86)source
  • 413Heraclianus, Roman usurpersource
  • 851Nominoe, king (or duke) of Brittanysource
  • 974John of Gorze, Frankish abbot and diplomatsource
  • 1108Gundulf, Norman bishop of Rochester (born c.1024)source
  • 1172Il-Arslan, Khwarezm ruler (shah)source
  • 1209Otto VIII, count palatine of Bavaria (approximate date)source
  • 1226William Longespée, English nobleman and knight (born 1176)source
  • 1274Thomas Aquinas, Italian friar and theologian (born 1225)source
  • 1305Guy of Dampierre, French nobleman and knight (born 1226)source
  • 1309Lovato Lovati, Italian scholar, judge and writer (born 1241)source
  • 1393Bogislaw VI, Duke of Pomerania (born c. 1350)source
  • 1407Francesco I Gonzaga, ruler of Mantuasource
  • 1517Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (born 1482)source
  • 1544Five Roman Catholic priests— John Larke, John Ireland, the vicar of Eltham and Robert Singleton are executed at Tyburn, outside of London, in England after being convicted of participating in the Prebendaries' Plot to remove Thomas Cranmer, the Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury.source
  • 1550William IV, Duke of Bavaria (born 1493)source
  • 1578Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (born 1515)source
  • 1631Ambrósio I Nimi a Nkanga, the ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo (in what is now Angola) dies after a reign of five years.source
  • 1720John Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 49source
  • 1724Pope Innocent XIII (born 1655)source
  • 1724Pope Innocent XIII dies at the age of 68 after less than three years as the Roman Catholic pontiff.source
  • 1748Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, French noblewoman, Princess of Epinoy by marriage (born 1664)source
  • 1755Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man (born 1663)source
  • 1767Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (born 1680)source
  • 1778Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (born 1720)source
  • 1797John Gabriel Stedman, British–Dutch colonial soldier and author (born 1744)source
  • 1797Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey, German writer (born 1711)source
  • 1810Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (born 1750)source
  • 1838Robert Townsend (spy), American member of the Culper Spy Ring (born 1753)source
  • 1913E. Pauline Johnson, Canadian writer (born 1861)source
  • 1949Bradbury Robinson, American who threw the first forward pass in American football history (born 1884)source
  • 1971Émile Hamilius, politiciansource
  • 1999Stanley Kubrick, 70, American film director and screenwriter (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove), heart attack.source