On this day: March 7

Events on March 7

• 161 Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius. Wikipedia
• 321 Emperor Constantine I decreed that Sunday, the day honoring the sun god Sol Invictus (disc pictured), would be the Roman day of rest. Wikipedia
• 1277 Bishop Étienne Tempier promulgated a condemnation of 219 heretical propositions that were being discussed at the University of Paris. Wikipedia
• 1573 A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands. Wikipedia
• 1573 A peace treaty brought the Ottoman–Venetian War to an end, ceding Cyprus from the Republic of Venice to the Ottoman Empire. Wikipedia
• 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. Wikipedia
• 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition: Napoleon's army forced Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov's Russian troops to withdraw from the Chemin des Dames, but French casualties exceeded Russian losses. Wikipedia
• 1850 Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. Wikipedia
• 1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone". Wikipedia
• 1931 The Parliament House of Finland is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland. Wikipedia
• 1936 Nazi German forces re-occupied the demilitarized Rhineland, violating both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties that were signed after World War I. Wikipedia
• 1941 The German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappeared with 45 men on board. Wikipedia
• 1941 World War II: Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace. Wikipedia
• 1945 World War II: At the beginning of the Battle of Remagen, Allied forces unexpectedly captured the Ludendorff Bridge, which possibly hastened the war's conclusion. Wikipedia
• 1945 World War II: The American 9th Armored Division unexpectedly captures an intact bridge over the Rhine. Wikipedia
• 1951 Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces. Wikipedia
• 1951 Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, outside a mosque in Tehran. Wikipedia
• 1965 Unarmed civil rights activists marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, were attacked by police on "Bloody Sunday". Wikipedia
• 1968 Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam began Operation Truong Cong Dinh to sweep the area surrounding the Mekong Delta town of Mỹ Tho to root out Viet Cong forces in the area. Wikipedia
• 1971 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka. Wikipedia
• 1989 Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. Wikipedia
• 1990 Teachers in West Virginia began a labor strike that involved several thousand educators across the state. Wikipedia
• 2006 The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India. Wikipedia
• 2009 Massereene Barracks shooting: The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles. Wikipedia
• 2009 The Kepler space telescope, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, was launched. Wikipedia
• 2024 Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member. Wikipedia

Born on March 7

• 189 Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor (died 211) Wikipedia
• 1693 Clement XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (died 1769) Wikipedia
• 1765 Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography (died 1833) Wikipedia
• 1785 Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author and poet (died 1873) Wikipedia
• 1792 John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (died 1871) Wikipedia
• 1850 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (died 1937) Wikipedia
• 1857 Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940) Wikipedia
• 1872 Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (died 1944) Wikipedia
• 1875 Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1937) Wikipedia
• 1904 Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer and a principle architect of the Holocaust (died 1942) Wikipedia
• 1908 Anna Magnani, Italian actress (died 1973) Wikipedia
• 1915 Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 2000) Wikipedia
• 1936 Georges Perec, French author (died 1982) Wikipedia
• 1938 David Baltimore, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025) Wikipedia
• 1956 Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer Wikipedia
• 1960 Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player and coach Wikipedia
• 1964 Bret Easton Ellis, American author and screenwriter Wikipedia
• 1970 Rachel Weisz, English actress Wikipedia
• 1980 Laura Prepon, American actress Wikipedia
• 1984 Mathieu Flamini, French footballer Wikipedia
• 1994 Jordan Pickford, English footballer Wikipedia
• 1998 Amanda Gorman, American poet and activist Wikipedia

Died on March 7

• 161 Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (born 86) Wikipedia
• 1274 Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and philosopher (born 1225) Wikipedia
• 1578 Margaret Douglas, English noblewoman, daughter of Margaret Tudor and Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (born 1515) Wikipedia
• 1625 Johann Bayer, German lawyer and cartographer (born 1572) Wikipedia
• 1724 Pope Innocent XIII (born 1655) Wikipedia
• 1931 Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish artist (born 1865) Wikipedia
• 1932 Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862) Wikipedia
• 1954 Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876) Wikipedia
• 1975 Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1895) Wikipedia
• 1988 Divine, American drag queen and film actor (born 1945) Wikipedia
• 1997 Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912) Wikipedia
• 1999 Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928) Wikipedia
• 2013 Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1922) Wikipedia
• 2016 Leonard Berney, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberator (born 1920) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day: Blessed Leonid Feodorov (Russian Greek Catholic Church) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Perpetua and Felicity Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Siméon-François Berneux (part of The Korean Martyrs) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: March 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Maritime Day in Slovenia Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “March 7” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.