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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 7th of March 0161 | EVENT | Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. |
| 7th of March 0238 | EVENT | Roman subjects in Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor. |
| 7th of March 0321 | EVENT | Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire. |
| 7th of March 1277 | EVENT | Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses. |
| 7th of March 1799 | EVENT | Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. |
| 7th of March 1814 | EVENT | Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne. |
| 7th of March 1827 | EVENT | Brazil marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina. |
| 7th of March 1827 | EVENT | Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand. |
| 7th of March 1850 | EVENT | Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. |
| 7th of March 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas. |
| 7th of March 1876 | EVENT | Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone. |
| 7th of March 1886 | EVENT | The City of Labrea in Amazonas, Brazil is founded. Today, the town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Labrea. |
| 7th of March 1900 | EVENT | The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore. |
| 7th of March 1902 | EVENT | 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 |
| 7th of March 1912 | EVENT | Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911. |
| 7th of March 1914 | EVENT | Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign. |
| 7th of March 1936 | EVENT | World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. |
| 7th of March 1945 | EVENT | World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen. |
| 7th of March 1950 | EVENT | Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy. |
| 7th of March 1951 | EVENT | Korean War: Operation Ripper : United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces. |
| 7th of March 1965 | EVENT | Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama. |
| 7th of March 1968 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding My Tho. |
| 7th of March 1985 | EVENT | The song "We Are the World" has its international release. |
| 7th of March 1986 | EVENT | Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. |
| 7th of March 1989 | EVENT | Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel. |
| 7th of March 1994 | EVENT | Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use. |
| 7th of March 2006 | EVENT | The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India. |
| 7th of March 2007 | EVENT | The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. |
| 7th of March 2009 | EVENT | The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since The Troubles. |
| 7th of March 2009 | EVENT | The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched. |
| 7th of March 0189 | BIRTHDAY | Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211) |
| 7th of March 1481 | BIRTHDAY | Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537) |
| 7th of March 1556 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621) |
| 7th of March 1671 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734) |
| 7th of March 1678 | BIRTHDAY | Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (d. 1736) |
| 7th of March 1687 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760) |
| 7th of March 1693 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769) |
| 7th of March 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759) |
| 7th of March 1715 | BIRTHDAY | Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755) |
| 7th of March 1730 | BIRTHDAY | Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807) |
| 7th of March 1765 | BIRTHDAY | Nicephore Niepce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833) |
| 7th of March 1785 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Manzoni, Italian writer (d. 1873) |
| 7th of March 1788 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Cesar Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878) |
| 7th of March 1792 | BIRTHDAY | John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871) |
| 7th of March 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882) |
| 7th of March 1841 | BIRTHDAY | William Rockhill Nelson, American publisher (The Kansas City Star) and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d. 1915) |
| 7th of March 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Luther Burbank, American botanist (d. 1926) |
| 7th of March 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Champ Clark, American politician (d. 1921) |
| 7th of March 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937) |
| 7th of March 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1940) |
| 7th of March 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidopterist (d. 1922) |
| 7th of March 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (d. 1944) |
| 7th of March 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959) |
| 7th of March 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937) |
| 7th of March 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927) |
| 7th of March 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Virginia Pearson, American silent film actress (d. 1958) |
| 7th of March 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Heino Eller, Estonian composer (d. 1970) |
| 7th of March 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978) |
| 7th of March 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Milton Avery, American artist (d. 1965) |
| 7th of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Heinz Ruhmann, German actor (d. 1994) |
| 7th of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi SS senior officer (d. 1942) |
| 7th of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969) |
| 7th of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973) |
| 7th of March 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Malet, French writer (Nestor Burma) (d. 1996) |
| 7th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician (d. 2000) |
| 7th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Young, American jazz drummer and singer (d. 2008) |
| 7th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004) |
| 7th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Gagnon, American Marine shown in photograph of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1979) |
| 7th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982) |
| 7th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American hotelier and philanthropist |
| 7th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and teacher (d. 2006) |
| 7th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Antony Armstrong-Jones, British aristocrat, Lord Snowdon, former husband of Princess Margaret |
| 7th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998) |
| 7th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Willard Scott, American television broadcaster |
| 7th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Katsaros, Greek musician and composer |
| 7th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Cardinal, Canadian architect |
| 7th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | David Baltimore, American biologist, Nobel laureate |
| 7th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Guthrie, American race car driver |
| 7th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel J. Travanti, American actor |
| 7th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979) |
| 7th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Tammy Faye Bakker, American televangelist (d. 2007) |
| 7th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Eisner, American film studio executive |
| 7th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Charles R. Boutin, American politician |
| 7th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Chris White, British musician (The Zombies) |
| 7th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Zhiuli Shartava, Georgian politician and the Head of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia (d. 1993) |
| 7th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Schmidt, American editor |
| 7th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Ranulph Fiennes, British soldier and explorer |
| 7th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997) |
| 7th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Herbert, American journalist |
| 7th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Lee, American musician (Love) (d. 2006) |
| 7th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Heard, American actor |
| 7th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Goleman, American author and psychologist |
| 7th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Fisher, British musician (Procol Harum) |
| 7th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Wolf, American musician (The J. Geils Band) |
| 7th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Lawson, American actor |
| 7th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Eadie, Scottish politician |
| 7th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Rohrl, German race and rally car driver |
| 7th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician |
| 7th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer |
| 7th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Joe Dupree, American football player |
| 7th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Franco Harris, American football player |
| 7th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Rocco Prestia, American musician (Tower of Power) |
| 7th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Isley, American musician (The Isley Brothers) |
| 7th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Viv Richards, Antiguan West Indies cricketer |
| 7th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Lynn Swann, American football player |
| 7th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Anupam Kher, Indian actor |
| 7th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Kramer, American football player |
| 7th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Cranston, American actor |
| 7th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Harris, English TV reporter and journalist |
| 7th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Hale, American astronomer |
| 7th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Rik Mayall, British actor |
| 7th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Donna Murphy, American actress and singer |
| 7th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Spivey, American track and field athlete |
| 7th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Carter, American baseball player |
| 7th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player |
| 7th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Dayne, American recording artist |
| 7th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Manley, English darts player |
| 7th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Brochtrup, American actor |
| 7th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Denyce Graves, American singer |
| 7th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bret Easton Ellis, American writer |
| 7th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne |
| 7th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron Daddo, Australian actor |
| 7th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Armstrong, American baseball player |
| 7th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Beuerlein, American football player |
| 7th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer |
| 7th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Joy Tanner, American actress |
| 7th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ruthie Henshall, English theatre actress and singer |
| 7th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Barda, Swedish singer (Army of Lovers) |
| 7th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ai Yazawa, Japanese mangaka |
| 7th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Boucher, Canadian baseball player |
| 7th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Kent, American baseball player |
| 7th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Warrel Dane, American singer (Nevermore) |
| 7th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Shin Ae Ra, Korean actress and radio DJ |
| 7th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Massimo Lotti, Italian footballer |
| 7th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Hideki Noda, Japanese racing driver |
| 7th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Weisz, British actress |
| 7th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Sarsgaard, American actor |
| 7th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Vaughn, British film producer and director |
| 7th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jang Dong-gun, South Korean actor and musician |
| 7th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Maxim Roy, Quebec actress |
| 7th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Bright, Australian racing driver |
| 7th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Parlour, English footballer |
| 7th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Izambard, operatic pop singer (Il Divo) |
| 7th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jenna Fischer, American actress |
| 7th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Krizz Kaliko, American Rapper |
| 7th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Facundo Sava, Argentine footballer |
| 7th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Bagby, American actor and musician |
| 7th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress |
| 7th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | TJ Thyne, American actor |
| 7th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer |
| 7th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer |
| 7th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Cattermole, British singer, actor and member of pop group S Club |
| 7th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby union footballer |
| 7th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rodrigo Brana, Argentine footballer |
| 7th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Somerville, American singer (Aina) and vocal coach |
| 7th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 7th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Prepon, American actress |
| 7th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Rica Peralejo, Philippine Actress |
| 7th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Erika Yamakawa, Japanese talent |
| 7th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Michael, American beauty queen |
| 7th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Manucho, Angolan footballer |
| 7th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Tankersley, American baseball player |
| 7th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon T. Jackson, American actor |
| 7th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Mathieu Flamini, French footballer |
| 7th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Rice, Welsh reality tv star |
| 7th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Erak, American guitarist |
| 7th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Fluellen, American football player |
| 7th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | George Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player |
| 7th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Griffin, Australian soccer player |
| 7th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Niclas Bergfors, Swedish hockey player |
| 7th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer |
| 7th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Asante, American football player |
| 7th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Anderson, Filipino actor and model |
| 7th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins |
| 7th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Choi Jong Hun, South Korean guitarist, leader in F.T. Island |
| 7th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Lefteris Matsoukas, Greek footballer |
| 7th of March 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Rigione, Italian footballer |
| 7th of March 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Bel Powley, English actress |
| 7th of March 2009 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Umberto of Savoy |
| 7th of March 0161 | DEATH | Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (Born 86) |
| 7th of March 0308 | DEATH | Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr |
| 7th of March 0413 | DEATH | Heraclianus, Roman usurper |
| 7th of March 0851 | DEATH | Nominoe, Duke of Brittany |
| 7th of March 1226 | DEATH | William Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader |
| 7th of March 1274 | DEATH | Saint Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher (Born 1225) |
| 7th of March 1578 | DEATH | Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (Born 1515) |
| 7th of March 1625 | DEATH | Johann Bayer, German astronomer (Born 1572) |
| 7th of March 1724 | DEATH | Pope Innocent XIII (Born 1655) |
| 7th of March 1767 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer (Born 1680) |
| 7th of March 1778 | DEATH | Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (Born 1720) |
| 7th of March 1810 | DEATH | Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (Born 1750) |
| 7th of March 1904 | DEATH | Ferdinand Andre Fouque, French geologist (Born 1828) |
| 7th of March 1913 | DEATH | Emily Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet (Born 1861) |
| 7th of March 1928 | DEATH | Robert Abbe, American surgeon (Born 1851) |
| 7th of March 1932 | DEATH | Aristide Briand, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (Born 1862) |
| 7th of March 1938 | DEATH | Andreas Michalakopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (Born 1876) |
| 7th of March 1942 | DEATH | Lucy Parsons, American anarchist, communist and labor organizer (Born 1853) |
| 7th of March 1949 | DEATH | Bradbury Robinson, American football player (Born 1884) |
| 7th of March 1949 | DEATH | Francis Dodd, English artist (Born 1874) |
| 7th of March 1952 | DEATH | Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (Born 1893) |
| 7th of March 1954 | DEATH | Otto Diels, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1876) |
| 7th of March 1957 | DEATH | Wyndham Lewis, British author (Born 1882) |
| 7th of March 1965 | DEATH | Louise Mountbatten, Swedish queen (Born 1889) |
| 7th of March 1967 | DEATH | Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (Born 1877) |
| 7th of March 1974 | DEATH | Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (Born 1906) |
| 7th of March 1975 | DEATH | Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (Born 1895) |
| 7th of March 1975 | DEATH | Ben Blue, Canadian actor (Born 1901) |
| 7th of March 1976 | DEATH | Wright Patman, American politician (Born 1893) |
| 7th of March 1978 | DEATH | Steve Bilko, American baseball player (Born 1928) |
| 7th of March 1981 | DEATH | Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (Born 1914) |
| 7th of March 1983 | DEATH | Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (Born 1912) |
| 7th of March 1984 | DEATH | Paul Rotha, English director (Born 1907) |
| 7th of March 1986 | DEATH | Jacob Javits, American politician (Born 1904) |
| 7th of March 1988 | DEATH | Robert Livingston, American film actor (Born 1904) |
| 7th of March 1988 | DEATH | Divine, American actor (Born 1945) |
| 7th of March 1991 | DEATH | Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (Born 1903) |
| 7th of March 1995 | DEATH | Paul-Emile Victor, French explorer (Born 1907) |
| 7th of March 1997 | DEATH | E. H. Bronner, German-American soap magnate (Born 1908) |
| 7th of March 1997 | DEATH | Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel laureate (Born 1912) |
| 7th of March 1999 | DEATH | Stanley Kubrick, American film director (Born 1928) |
| 7th of March 1999 | DEATH | Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (Born 1918) |
| 7th of March 2000 | DEATH | Charles Gray, British actor (Born 1928) |
| 7th of March 2000 | DEATH | Pee Wee King, American country music songwriter and musician (Born 1914) |
| 7th of March 2001 | DEATH | Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (Born 1903) |
| 7th of March 2004 | DEATH | Paul Winfield, American actor (Born 1941) |
| 7th of March 2005 | DEATH | John Box, British film production designer and art director (Born 1920) |
| 7th of March 2005 | DEATH | Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (Born 1950) |
| 7th of March 2006 | DEATH | Ali Farka Toure, Malian musician (Born 1939) |
| 7th of March 2006 | DEATH | Gordon Parks, photographer (Born 1912) |
| 7th of March 2006 | DEATH | John Junkin, British performer (Born 1930) |
| 7th of March 2009 | DEATH | Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (Born 1982) |
| 7th of March 2010 | DEATH | Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American supercentenarian (Born 1895) |