About March 7

March 7, 2025 is the 66th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 347 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 7

  • 161 –
    Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
  • 238 –
    Roman subjects in Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
  • 321 –
    Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
  • 1277 –
    Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
  • 1799 –
    Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
  • 1814 –
    Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
  • 1827 –
    Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
  • 1850 –
    Senator Daniel Webster gives his “Seventh of March” speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
  • 1886 –
    The City of Lábrea in Amazonas, Brazil is founded. Today, the town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Lábrea.
  • 1900 –
    The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
  • 1914 –
    Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
  • 1936 –
    World War II (Prelude to): 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.
  • 1950 –
    Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
  • 1985 –
    The song “We Are the World” has its international release.
  • 1986 –
    Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
  • 1989 –
    Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.
  • 2006 –
    The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
  • 2009 –
    The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
  • 2009 –
    The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since The Troubles.

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