WHAT HAPPENED ON 7. MARCH
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Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. (7. March 161)

Roman subjects in the province of Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor. (7. March 238)

Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire. (7. March 321)

Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses. (7. March 1277)

Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. (7. March 1799)

Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne. (7. March 1814)

Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. (7. March 1827)

Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand. (7. March 1827)

Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. (7. March 1850)

American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas. (7. March 1862)

Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone". (7. March 1876)

The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore. (7. March 1900)

Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war. (7. March 1902)

Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911. (7. March 1912)

Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign. (7. March 1914)

Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. (7. March 1936)

World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen. (7. March 1945)

Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy. (7. March 1950)

Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces. (7. March 1951)

Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. (7. March 1965)