Events on March 7 28
Year 161
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.
Year 1862
American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
Year 1876
Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
Year 1900
The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
Year 1902
Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
Year 1936
Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
Year 1945
World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.
Year 1950
Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
Year 1951
Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
Year 1965
Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
Year 1967
Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesian provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia.
Year 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.
Year 1986
Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
Year 1987
Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen.
Year 1989
Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
Year 2006
The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
Year 2007
The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
Year 2009
The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.