7 March in history

7 events that happened on 7 March, from 161 to 1965.

  1. 161 CE 1,865 years ago

    Marcus Aurelius becomes Roman Emperor

    On the death of Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius succeeded and made his adoptive brother Lucius Verus co-emperor. A Stoic philosopher, he wrote his 'Meditations' while campaigning on the Danube.

    Danube

  2. 1799 CE 227 years ago

    Napoleon storms Jaffa

    French troops took the port of Jaffa during Napoleon's Syrian campaign. Thousands of prisoners were then executed, and plague broke out in the army, which was halted at Acre.

    Napoleon

  3. 1850 CE 176 years ago

    Daniel Webster's 'Seventh of March' speech backs compromise

    The Massachusetts senator supported Henry Clay's compromise proposals, including a tougher fugitive slave law, to preserve the Union. Many Northern abolitionists denounced him.

  4. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    1876 CE 150 years ago

    Alexander Graham Bell is granted his telephone patent

    US Patent 174,465 covered a method of transmitting speech electrically. It became one of the most valuable patents ever issued and was defended in hundreds of lawsuits.

    Brazilian EmpireAlexander Graham Bell

  5. 1936 CE 90 years ago

    German troops reoccupy the Rhineland

    Hitler sent soldiers into the demilitarised Rhineland in breach of the Versailles and Locarno treaties. France and Britain did not respond with force, encouraging further German expansion.

    Versailles

  6. 1945 CE 81 years ago

    US troops seize the Remagen bridge over the Rhine

    American soldiers captured the Ludendorff railway bridge at Remagen before German demolition charges could destroy it. It gave the Allies their first crossing of the Rhine.

    AlliesRhine

  7. 1965 CE 61 years ago

    'Bloody Sunday' on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma

    Alabama state troopers attacked about 600 civil rights marchers with clubs and tear gas. Televised images shocked the nation and helped secure the Voting Rights Act that August.

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