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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.

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Born on March 7

Kiyan Anthony 2007– American basketball player (born 2007)
Rasmus Sandin 2000– Swedish ice hockey player (born 2000)
Sebastian Schwaighofer 2000– Austrian politician (born 2000)
Amanda Gorman 1998– American poet and activist (born 1998)
Taher Mohamed 1997– Egyptian footballer (born 1997)
Dylan Strome 1997– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1997)
Liam Donnelly 1996– Northern Irish footballer (born 1996)
Pablo López 1996– Venezuelan baseball player (born 1996)
Jerome Binnom-Williams 1995– English footballer (born 1995)
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Aboubakar Kamara 1995– Footballer (born 1995)
Haley Lu Richardson 1995– American actress (born 1995)
Chase Kalisz 1994– American swimmer (born 1994)
Jake Layman 1994– American basketball player (born 1994)
Jordan Pickford 1994– English footballer (born 1994)
Bel Powley 1992– British actress (born 1992)
Ian Clark 1991– American basketball player (born 1991)
Jeff Withey 1990– American basketball player (born 1990)
Niclas Bergfors 1987– Swedish ice hockey player (born 1987)

People

Died on March 7

Jamie Dunn Australian television and radio personality (1950–2026)
D'Wayne Wiggins American musical artist (1961–2025)
Steve Lawrence American singer and actor (1935–2024)
Dick Beyer American professional wrestler (1930–2019)
Lynne Stewart American lawyer
Adrian Hardiman Irish supreme court judge (1951–2016)
Leonard Berney British soldier (1920–2016)
G. Karthikeyan Indian politician (1949–2015)
F. Ray Keyser American lawyer and politician (1927–2015)
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Yoshihiro Tatsumi Japanese manga artist
Ned O'Gorman American poet
Peter Banks English guitarist (1947–2013)
Damiano Damiani Italian filmmaker (1922–2013)
Claude King American country music singer-songwriter (1923–2013)
Gordon Parks American photographer, musician, writer and film director (1912–2006)
John Box British film production designer
Debra Hill American film producer (1950–2005)
Pee Wee King American country music songwriter and recording artist (1914–2000)

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Every March 7 on record

  1. 161 Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.

    Roman emperor from 161 to 180

    Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was a member of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty, the last of the rulers later known as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace, calm, and stability for the Roman Empire lasting from 27 BC to 180 AD. He served as Roman consul in 140, 145, and 161.

  2. 681 The Third Council of Constantinople deposes patriarch Macarius I of Antioch.

    680s council of the Christian churches

    The Third Council of Constantinople, counted as the Sixth Ecumenical Council by the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches, and by certain other Western Churches, met in 680–681 and condemned monoenergism and monothelitism as heretical and defined Jesus Christ as having two energies and two wills.

  3. 1138 Konrad III von Hohenstaufen is elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin.

    King of Germany from 1138 to 1152

    Conrad III of the Hohenstaufen dynasty was from 1116 to 1120 Duke of Franconia, from 1127 to 1135 anti-king of his predecessor Lothair III, and from 1138 until his death in 1152 King of the Romans in the Holy Roman Empire. He was the son of Duke Frederick I of Swabia and Agnes, a daughter of Emperor Henry IV.

  4. 1277 The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of various philosophical and theological theses.

    Medieval restrictions questioning Aristotelianism

    The Condemnations at the medieval University of Paris were enacted to restrict certain teachings as being heretical. These included a number of medieval theological teachings, but most importantly the physical treatises of Aristotle. The investigations of these teachings were conducted by the Bishops of Paris.

  5. 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.

    Turkish Empire (c. 1299–1922)

    The Ottoman Empire, historically also known as the Turkish Empire, was a state that spanned much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th century to the early 20th century, centred in modern-day Turkey. It also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

  6. 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
  7. 1814 Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
  8. 1826 Shrigley abduction: 15-year old Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future figure in the establishment of colonies in South Australia and New Zealand.
  9. 1850 Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
  10. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
  11. 1902 Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, defeat the British at the Battle of Tweebosch.
  12. 1921 The short-lived socialist Labin Republic is proclaimed.
  13. 1931 The Parliament House of Finland is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
  14. 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.
  15. 1951 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 crashes in Lynnhurst, Minneapolis, killing 15 people.
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  1. 1951 Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
  2. 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.
  3. 1965 Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
  4. 1965 Aeroflot Flight 542 crashes in the Yermakovsky District, killing all 31 aboard.
  5. 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.
  6. 1986 Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
  7. 1989 Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
  8. 2006 The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
  9. 2007 Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
  10. 2007 Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people.
  11. 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.
  12. 2021 At least 108 die and 615 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.
  13. 2024 Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member.
  14. 2024 Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust, the first time someone has been found guilty for causing a death on a movie set.

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