Historical Events on March 7

Emperor Constantine

Here are some historical events that took place on March 7th:

161 – Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

321 – Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (Sunday) is the day of rest in the Empire.

1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".

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.

1936 – Hitler's Third Reich reoccupies the Rhineland.

1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.

1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.

1985 – The song "We Are the World" receives its international release.

2007 – The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.

These are just a few events from history that took place on March 7th.