On This Day in History for March 7
Events in History
- 161 Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire
- 321 Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire
- 1138 Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
- 1277 Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris
- 1530 English King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope
- 1560 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, North Africa
- 1573 Turkey & Venice sign peace treaty
- 1621 John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies
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Lucilla
Rob Roy
James Donnelly
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Reinhard Heydrich
Amanda Gorman
Antoninus Pius
Aristotle
Thomas Aquinas
Aristide BriandMarch in History
Bikini Atoll is Evacuated
Residents of Bikini Atoll are evacuated to make way for nuclear testing
March 7, 1946
Telephone Invention Dispute? That Rings a Bell
There was fierce competition among 19th Century inventors to come up with a working telephone. Alexander Graham Bell won and was granted a patent on this day.
March 7, 1876
Alexander Graham Bell Patents the Telephone
The original drawing filed with Thomas Edison's patent application for the telephone
March 7, 1876
Sinatra Snaps the Fight of the Century
Sinatra does it his way and secures a ringside seat as a photographer for the "Fight of the Century" between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
March 8, 1971