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Events
161 – Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
238 – Roman subjects in the province of 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.
1530: Pope Clement VII issues a formal denial of the Petition from the Bishops and Peers of England requesting an annulment of the marriage of King Henry VIII to his first wife.
1573 – A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–73) and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
1778 – The Oregon coast at Yaquina Bay is first discovered by Captain James Cook.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1801 – The first voter registration law is enacted in Massachusetts.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1827 – Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
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.
1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1902 – 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.
1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
1936 – Prelude to 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.
1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
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1967 – Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesian provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia.
1968 – Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
1971 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivers his historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan.
1985 – The song "We Are the World" receives its international release.
1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
1987 – Lieyu Massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen.
1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
1994 – Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
2006 – The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
2007 – The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
2009 – The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.
2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
2014 – The opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Paralympics take place in Sochi, Russia.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Thomas of Aquino, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double.
Commemoration of SS. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs.
Contemporary Western
Blessed José Olallo
Blessed Leonid Feodorov (Russian Greek Catholic Church)
Perpetua and Felicity
Pierre-Henri Dorie, Siméon-François Berneux (part of The Korean Martyrs)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
March 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Codratus, Saturninus, and Rufinus, of Nicomedia (250-259)
Martyrs Aemilian the Roman, and Jacob (James) and Marianos with him,
under Valerian (259)
The Holy Hieromartyrs of Cherson:
Basil, Ephraim, Capito, Eugene, Aetherius, Elpidius, and Agathadorus (4th c.)
Venerable Paul the Simple, of Egypt (ca. 339), disciple of St. Anthony the Great
Saints Nestor and Arcadius, Bishops of Tremithous, in Cyprus (4th c.)
Saint Ephraim of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch (546)
Saint Paul the Confessor, Bishop of Plousias in Bithynia (ca. 840)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Perpetua of Carthage, and the catechumens Felicity, Saturus (Satyrus),
Saturninus, Revocatus and Secundulus at Carthage (202-203)
Saint Gaudiosus of Brescia, Confessor and Bishop of Brescia in Italy,
where his relics were venerated (445)
Saint Enodoch (Wenedoc), a saint in Wales (ca. 520)
Saint Drausinus (Drausius), Bishop of Soissons, did much to encourage
monasticism (ca. 576)
Saint Deifer, founder of Bodfari in Clwyd in Wales (6th c.)
Saint Emilian, monk, of Italia (6th c.)
Saint Eosterwine, the second Anglo-Saxon Abbot of Wearmouth
in Northumbria (688)
Saint John of Beverley, Bishop of York (721)
Saint Ardo Smaragdus, a hagiographer, abbot of the monastery of Aniane (843)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Laurence (Lavrentios of Megara), founder of the monastery
of the Mother of God Phaneromeni on Salamis Island (1707)
Saint Dandus (Dandas) and All Saints of Thrace
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Nicholas, Priest (1930)
New Hieromartyr Nilus (Tyutyukin), Hieromonk of St. Joseph of Volokolamsk
Monastery (1938)
Virgin-martyrs Matrona, Mary, Eudocia, Ecaterina, Antonina, Nadezhda, Xenia,
and Anna (1938)
Other commemorations
Synaxis of the Saints of the DodecaneseTraditional Western
Thomas of Aquino, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. Double.
Commemoration of SS. Perpetua and Felicitas, Martyrs.
Contemporary Western
Blessed José Olallo
Blessed Leonid Feodorov (Russian Greek Catholic Church)
Perpetua and Felicity
Pierre-Henri Dorie, Siméon-François Berneux (part of The Korean Martyrs)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
March 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Codratus, Saturninus, and Rufinus, of Nicomedia (250-259)
Martyrs Aemilian the Roman, and Jacob (James) and Marianos with him,
under Valerian (259)
The Holy Hieromartyrs of Cherson:
Basil, Ephraim, Capito, Eugene, Aetherius, Elpidius, and Agathadorus (4th c.)
Venerable Paul the Simple, of Egypt (ca. 339), disciple of St. Anthony the Great
Saints Nestor and Arcadius, Bishops of Tremithous, in Cyprus (4th c.)
Saint Ephraim of Antioch, Patriarch of Antioch (546)
Saint Paul the Confessor, Bishop of Plousias in Bithynia (ca. 840)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Perpetua of Carthage, and the catechumens Felicity, Saturus (Satyrus),
Saturninus, Revocatus and Secundulus at Carthage (202-203)
Saint Gaudiosus of Brescia, Confessor and Bishop of Brescia in Italy,
where his relics were venerated (445)
Saint Enodoch (Wenedoc), a saint in Wales (ca. 520)
Saint Drausinus (Drausius), Bishop of Soissons, did much to encourage
monasticism (ca. 576)
Saint Deifer, founder of Bodfari in Clwyd in Wales (6th c.)
Saint Emilian, monk, of Italia (6th c.)
Saint Eosterwine, the second Anglo-Saxon Abbot of Wearmouth
in Northumbria (688)
Saint John of Beverley, Bishop of York (721)
Saint Ardo Smaragdus, a hagiographer, abbot of the monastery of Aniane (843)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Laurence (Lavrentios of Megara), founder of the monastery
of the Mother of God Phaneromeni on Salamis Island (1707)
Saint Dandus (Dandas) and All Saints of Thrace
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Nicholas, Priest (1930)
New Hieromartyr Nilus (Tyutyukin), Hieromonk of St. Joseph of Volokolamsk
Monastery (1938)
Virgin-martyrs Matrona, Mary, Eudocia, Ecaterina, Antonina, Nadezhda, Xenia,
and Anna (1938)
Other commemorations
Repose of Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, Hetman of Ukraine (1622)
Repose of Schemamonk Sisoes of Valaam (1931)
Icons
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Surety of Sinners" in Korets (1622),
Odrin (1843) and Moscow (1848)
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Of Czestochowa"
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