Events on 7 March 28
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Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
Year 238
Roman subjects in the province of Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
Year 321
Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
Year 1277
Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
Year 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.
Year 1799
Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
Year 1827
Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
Year 1827
Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
Year 1850
Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
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Birthdays on 7 March 154
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Deaths on 7 March 65
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