March 7 in History

Becomes co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius.

Succeeds Antoninus Pius and rules jointly with Lucius Verus.

Succeeds Antoninus Pius and shares rule with Lucius Verus.

Many Jews are masacred by the Crusaders

Forced by Henry VI to release the Great Seal to Thomas Bourcier

Despatched by Edward to raise forces from the western Midlands

The first Book of Common Prayer of Edward VI is published in English.

Makes peace with France after refusing the Utrecht settlement.

Villars signs the Treaty of Rastatt with Eugene, helping end the war between France and Austria.

Confirms peace with Austria after the Utrecht negotiations.

Makes peace with France after refusing the Utrecht settlement.

Confirms peace with Austria after the Utrecht negotiations.

Brunel lands at Falmouth and travels to London to pursue his engineering proposals.

Napoleon's army captured Jaffa during the Syrian campaign, gaining a coastal position on the route toward Acre.

Appointed Commander in Italy

Appointed Commander in Italy

Congress hears of Napoleon's escape from Elba

Dissolves the Austrian Reichstag

Drafts resolutions for the International's Central Council concerning conflict in its Paris section.

Parliament authorises Exchequer bonds to replace the temporary Rothschild financing of the Suez Canal purchase.

Appointed Prime Minister of Spain

Appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland

Amundsens success is publicly announced on March 7, 1912, when he arrives at Hobart, Australia

Announces from Hobart that his party has reached the South Pole

The Expedition makes its way to Hobart, Australia, where Amundsen publicly announces his success

Permits union political funds while allowing members to opt out.

Helps Labour benefit from lawful political levies with individual opt-outs.

Welcomes restoration of trade-union political fund powers.

Secures Royal Assent for the Trade Union Act.

Strengthens Labour financing after the Osborne judgment restrictions.

Secures Royal Assent for the Trade Union Act.

Supports legislation restoring trade-union political funding rights.

Permits trade union political funds while allowing members to opt out.

William of Wied arrives in Albania as sovereign prince

French minesweepers make another attempt under covering fire but fail to open the required passage through the minefields.

Hakki prepares Nusret for a covert mining mission across Erenkoy Bay.

Urges the First Lord of the Admiralty to recall Lord Fisher as First Sea Lord

Suggests a conference of Irish representatives as a route toward wartime political settlement.

Presents proposals intended to reopen negotiations over Irish self-government during the war.

States that Home Rule cannot be imposed on areas of Ulster that reject it.

Peoples Courts are introduced

Peoples Courts are introduced

Commands Red Army units during the assault preparations.

Participates in Red Army operations against Kronstadt.

Helps organise artillery defence against the Red Army assault.

Rejects Bolshevik ultimatums and continues resistance.

Supports suppression of the Kronstadt revolt.

Threatens severe punishment unless the sailors surrender.

Launches the first Red Army assault across the ice.

The Second Jon Magnusson Government ends, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Iceland.

Addresses the Reichstag Main Committee, arguing that reparations remain the central problem of German foreign policy.

Begins the Sigurdur Eggerz Government and serves as Prime Minister of Iceland.

Appointed Minister of Health, 1st term

Will stand as "Independent anti-Socialist candidate" for the Abbey Div of Westminster

Suspends Parliament & assumes dictatorial powers to prevent the Nazis coming to power

Suspends Parliament & assumes dictatorial powers to prevent the Nazis coming to power

Re-establishment of the French-Belgian military pact

Re-establishment of the French-Belgian military pact

Belgium ends the Franco-Belgian Accord of 1920, after the German Remilitarization of the Rhineland

The German government notifies the Locarno powers that it considers the treaty no longer binding.

Hitler declares Germany no longer bound by the Locarno Treaty while restoring German military control in the Rhineland.

The German entry into the demilitarized zone constitutes a breach of the Locarno guarantee system.

Neurath supports the Rhineland move and expects that France will not answer the German action with military force.

Hitler sends German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland, violating the Versailles and Locarno settlement.

Remilitarises the Rhineland despite League-era security commitments

Hitler announces restored German sovereignty in the demilitarized Rhineland while repudiating the Locarno system.

Hitler occupies the Rhineland in contravention of Versailles, an act of war

Calinescu becomes prime minister and continues repression of the Iron Guard.

Writes again to President Roosevelt urging stronger attention to uranium research developments.

The British Army invades Italian-controlled Ethiopia

The Japanese capture Rangoon

The Allies capture the Remagen Bridge, still intact, just South of Bonn

Commands Combat Command B of the US 9th Armored Div which captures the Remagen bridge

Executed by the Polish authorities for war crimes

Launches an operation to recapture Inchon & Kimpo airfield

China accuses the USA of using germ warfare in Manchurian Korea

Lee's unit departed Corregidor aboard the USS Wexford County on March 7, 1958, returning to Atsugi eleven days later.

1st Prime Minister of Algeria

Government, employers and unions begin coordinated discussions through the National Economic Development Council.

7-18 March, a cease-fire is negotiated between the French & Algerian rebel leaders

Appointed Prime Minister of Algeria

Appointed Prime Minister of Iran

Helps shape the Selma voting rights campaign.

Is beaten unconscious during the bridge attack.

Local law enforcement confronts voting rights demonstrators.

Media coverage spreads news of the attack.

Orders marchers to disperse before troopers attack.

Local voter registration struggle frames the march.

SNCC activists support local demands for voting rights.

Marches for voting rights on Bloody Sunday.

Faces national outrage after the bridge attack.

Learns that marchers have been attacked in Selma.

Is absent when local civil rights leaders march from Selma and are attacked.

SCLC supports the voting rights campaign, but King is not on the first march.

Leads marchers toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Commands Alabama troopers at the bridge confrontation.

Photographs help publicise violence on the bridge.

Young local activists support the voting rights march.

Supports the voting rights campaign that led to the march.

His earlier arrest helps intensify the Selma campaign.

Supports the voting rights campaign in Alabama.

Opposes the march and defends segregationist state authority.

Co-leads the first Selma to Montgomery march.

Works with SCLC during the Selma campaign.

Kerensky participates in russian emigre movement during his political career.

Pilots Gumdrop alone while McDivitt and Schweickart conduct the lunar module free-flight test.

Commands Spider during its independent free flight away from command module Gumdrop.

Flies in Spider during the first crewed independent flight of a lunar module.

Pilots Gumdrop during rendezvous and docking with Spider after the lunar module's independent flight.

Commands Spider through rendezvous and redocking with Gumdrop after the lunar module free flight.

Participates in Spider's rendezvous with command module Gumdrop after the free-flight test.

Pilots command module Gumdrop during rendezvous and redocking with lunar module Spider.

Plays keyboards on From Genesis to Revelation as Genesis issue their first studio album.

Sings on From Genesis to Revelation, the band's debut album produced by Jonathan King.

Plays bass and guitar on From Genesis to Revelation during the band's early pop period.

Flies aboard Spider during the first crewed independent flight of a lunar module.

Release Pinball Wizard from Tommy.

Uses the lunar module ascent engine during rendezvous exercises simulating departure from the Moon.

Pilots lunar module Spider away from the command module for independent flight tests.

Faces expiration of the Suez ceasefire while diplomatic negotiations remain stalled.

Wins a landslide victory in the countrys first general elections, Rahman and the Awami League win the elections

Wins a landslide victory in the countrys first general elections, Rahman and the Awami League win the elections

Wins a landslide victory in the countrys first general elections, Rahman and the Awami League win the elections

The 3 day week & the state of emergency ends

The 3 day week & the state of emergency ends

Releases Young Americans, shifting toward soul and funk influences during his Philadelphia soul period.

Works on Young Americans as Bowie explores soul and funk with American musicians.

Opposition parties reject the election results and allege widespread manipulation.

FNLC forces based in Angola cross into Zaire's Shaba province, creating a major security crisis for Mobutu's government.

Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party wins the disputed 1977 general election.

Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party wins the disputed 1977 general election.

General election outcome recorded for Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto: Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party wins the disputed 1977 general election.

Government context for this general election: Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party wins the disputed 1977 general election.

The Pakistan Peoples Party secures a large National Assembly majority in the disputed poll.

Allows the 1985 state of emergency to lapse.

The respite from emergency rule lasts only several months.

Mobutu appoints Sambwa Pida Nbagui to lead the government.

Li Peng's government declares martial law in Lhasa after several days of unrest.

Suspended from the House of Commons for not declaring his business interests

The Islamabad Accord names Hekmatyar prime minister in a power-sharing government led by Rabbani.

Becomes the first speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, helping institutionalize Palestinian Authority governance.

The Hubble surface map confirms a dark equatorial belt and bright polar regions on Pluto.

Hubble results produce the first image-based surface map of Pluto, revealing about a dozen major bright and dark regions.

Hubble observations indicate Pluto's surface patterns are strongly influenced by migrating nitrogen and methane frosts.

Metallica is inducted into the San Francisco Walk of Fame

Metallica is inducted into the San Francisco Walk of Fame

Metallica is inducted into the San Francisco Walk of Fame

Metallica is inducted into the San Francisco Walk of Fame

Metallica is inducted into the San Francisco Walk of Fame

Takes office during escalating violence in the Second Intifada.

Sharon becomes Prime Minister as the Second Intifada intensifies.

Newman helps install the Advanced Camera for Surveys, replacing Hubble's Faint Object Camera.

Reports accelerated Iraqi initiatives but continuing unresolved disarmament questions.

Becomes President of the Czech Republic.

Presents UNMOVIC's twelfth quarterly report to the Council.

The Fed releases another $200 billion emergency funding. Former bosses of Citigroup and Merrill Lynch face a congressional committee grilling over pay

Government record concerning the IRA: Brown condemns the Real IRA attack that kills two British soldiers.

Historical IRA record under Labour Party Government: Brown condemns the Real IRA attack that kills two British soldiers.

IRA context for James Gordon Brown: Brown condemns the Real IRA attack that kills two British soldiers.

Brown condemns the Real IRA attack that kills two British soldiers.

Juno gravity measurements show Jupiter's east-west jet streams extend about 3,000 kilometres below the cloud tops.

Juno gravity data reveal north-south asymmetries linked to deep atmospheric flows inside Jupiter.

Wins the Barcelona presidential election and returns to lead the club.

Lyndell Simpson serves again as acting Governor

Welcomes Sweden joining NATO.

Delivers his third State of the Union address.

Birth of John Frederick William Herschel

Birth of Reinhard Heydrich, Saxony

Dies at Lorium after a long peaceful reign.

Death of Antonious Pius

Death of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, although she died in debt, she was given a grand funeral in Westminster Abbey, at the expense of Queen Elizabeth I

Is killed by artillery fire while directing the defence of the Malakoff sector.

Executed by the Polish authorities for war crimes

Death of Stanley Kubrick

Massena fought at Coire during operations against Coalition forces in the Swiss theatre.

Kelly-Kenny commands infantry during Roberts's advance against Boer positions at Poplar Grove.

Captures Methuen during a major Boer success.

Kemp fights with De la Rey's commandos during the Boer victory over Methuen's column at Tweebosch.

Is wounded and captured by De la Rey.