March 7

Events161 - 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.1277 - Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris.1798 - The French army enters Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic.1799 - Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. 1799 - The Royal Institution is founded.1814 - Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.1815 - Napoleon I of France meets troops of the Fifth Regiment sent by Louis XVIII at Grenoble, and convinces them to join him on his march to Paris.1827 - Brazil marines sail up the Rio Negro (Argentina) and attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. They are defeated by the local citizens.1827 - Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.1848 - The Great mahele (land division) is signed in Hawaii. 1850 - United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Pea Ridge - Union forces led by General Samuel Curtis defeat Confederate troops under General Earl Van Dorn at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas. 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,465).1911 - Revolution in Mexico.1912 - Roald Amundsen first announces to the world that his expedition has reached the South Pole, though they had arrived on December 14, 1911.1914 - Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.1936 - World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.1945 - World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, establish a bridgehead on Germany soil and in desperate fighting begin to establish a lodgement, which events shakes up the whole Western Front and greatly hastens the end of WW-II.1947 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War.1948 - The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending the Italian rule.1950 - Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy. 1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - In Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces. 1965 - In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday. 1969 - Golda Meir elected as the first female Prime Minister of Israel. 1988 - Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.1989 - Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.1989 - The State Council of the People's Republic of China declares martial law in Lhasa, Tibet.1994 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed.2004 - New Democracy wins the national elections in Greece.2005 - Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in Kuwait.2006 - Apple Inc. is granted the patent to their revolutionary device, the iPod. (patent # D516,576)2007 - British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100 lected.
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