Events on 8 March 45
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Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
Year 1262
Battle of Hausbergen between bourgeois militias and the army of the bishop of Strasbourg.
Year 1576
Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.
Year 1655
John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
Year 1658
Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655-1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
Year 1702
Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Year 1722
The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
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Birthdays on 8 March 169
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Deaths on 8 March 81
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