WHAT HAPPENED ON 8. MARCH
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Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shāhnāmeh. (8. March 1010)

Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León. (8. March 1126)

Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán. (8. March 1576)

Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. (8. March 1618)

John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed. (8. March 1655)

Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest. (8. March 1658)

Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland. (8. March 1702)

The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy. (8. March 1722)

Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran. (8. March 1736)

An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery. (8. March 1775)

Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt. (8. March 1777)

Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians. (8. March 1782)

War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria. (8. March 1801)

The New York Stock Exchange is founded. (8. March 1817)

King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. (8. March 1844)

American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia. (8. March 1862)

Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka. (8. March 1868)

French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license. (8. March 1910)

International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. (8. March 1911)

First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok. (8. March 1914)