322 BC Greek philosopher Aristotle died at Chalcis on March 7, 322 BC one year after fleeing there. His cause of death was a gastric system disorder, from which he had long suffered. The story that his death was due to hemlock poisoning, as well as the legend that he threw himself into the sea "because he could not explain the tides," is without historical foundation.
321 Constantine I decreed on March 7, 321 Sunday as the day of rest in the Roman Empire: "On the venerable day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country however persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits because it often happens that another day is not suitable for grain-sowing or vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost."
1274 Looking to find a way to reunite the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Gregory X convened the Second Council of Lyon and summoned Thomas Aquinas to attend. On his way to the Council, riding on a donkey along the Appian Way, Italian priest and philosopher struck his head on the branch of a fallen tree and became seriously ill. The monks at the Cistercian Fossanova Abbey nursed Thomas for several days, but he died on March 7, 1274.
1573 After the Ottoman Empire invaded Cyprus in 1570, the capital Nicosia and several other towns fell quickly to the considerably superior Ottoman army. In response the Republic of Venice and the Holy League, a coalition of Christian states formed under the auspices of the Pope, declared war. A peace treaty signed on March 7, 1573 brought the Ottoman–Venetian War to an end with Venice ceding Cyprus to the Ottomans and paying a tribute of 300,000 ducats.
1792 British astronomer William Herschel's only son, John was born on March 7, 1792. Highly intelligent, he placed first in mathematics exams and at 21, he became the youngest person admitted to the Royal Society. John Herschel built a reflecting telescope and invented the actinometer to measure the direct heating power of the sun's rays. He also made many contributions to the science of photography, and investigated color blindness and the chemical power of ultraviolet rays.
1804 The British and Foreign Bible Society was formed on March 7, 1804 when a group of Christians sought to address the problem of a lack of affordable Bibles in Welsh for Welsh-speaking Christians. It was to be the first of many similar organizations throughout the world.
1825 Thomas Jefferson co-founded the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. He was appointed to the building committee to supervise the construction and insisted on the use of classical forms to evoke the spirit of ancient republics and to teach proper taste to the students. The university's first classes met on March 7, 1825.
1875 Joseph-Maurice Ravel was born to a music-loving family on March 7, 1875, in Ciboure, France, to a Basque mother and a Swiss engineer father. He moved to Paris with his family as an infant. It soon became clear that Maurice was musically gifted, so his father arranged for him to have piano lessons with a well-known teacher. In 1889, aged just 14, Maurice entered France's most important musical college the Paris Conservatoire.
1876 Scottish-American inventor Alexander Graham Bell first transmitted sound over wires in June 1875. Bell spent the next six months making calculations. He filed his patent for a "telephone," which is Greek for sound, at New York Patent Office the following February. Bell was awarded the patent for the electric telephone by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on March 7, 1876.
1896 John Harvey Kellogg, the superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and his younger brother and general office assistant at the Sanatorium, William Keith Kellogg, came up with Corn Flakes in 1896. The new breakfast cereal was created by accident, after some boiled corn was left alone, one of his cooks found it had broken into crispy flakes. Kellogg served corn flakes for the first time to his patients at his hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan on March 7, 1896.
1900 The German SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first ocean liner to have a commercial wireless telegraphy system when the Marconi Company installed one in February 1900. This new technology allowed the ship to transmit telegraphic messages to shore, emphasizing her image of security. The first ship-to-shore message was sent on March 7, 1900.
1908 SMS Nassau was the first dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial German Navy, in response to the launching of the British battleship HMS Dreadnought. Nassau was laid down at the Imperial Shipyard in Wilhelmshaven and launched on March 7, 1908. Assigned to the First Battle Squadron of the German High Seas Fleet, Nassau saw service in the North Sea in the beginning of World War I.
1944 Ranulph Fiennes, who is regarded as the world’s greatest living explorer, was born on March 7, 1944. Fiennes was the first person to visit both the North and South Poles by surface means and the first to completely cross Antarctica on foot. After getting severe frostbite during an expedition in 2000, back home he sawed off his fingertips to avoid a £6,000 operation.
1962 The Beatles appeared on the BBC for the first time on March 7, 1962, recording for the radio show Here We Go. This also marked the group's first full live performance caught on tape, and the first performance in what would become their trademark collarless suits designed by Beno Dorn.
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| "Aristotle" by Francesco Hayez (1791–1882) |
321 Constantine I decreed on March 7, 321 Sunday as the day of rest in the Roman Empire: "On the venerable day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country however persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits because it often happens that another day is not suitable for grain-sowing or vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost."
1274 Looking to find a way to reunite the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Gregory X convened the Second Council of Lyon and summoned Thomas Aquinas to attend. On his way to the Council, riding on a donkey along the Appian Way, Italian priest and philosopher struck his head on the branch of a fallen tree and became seriously ill. The monks at the Cistercian Fossanova Abbey nursed Thomas for several days, but he died on March 7, 1274.
1573 After the Ottoman Empire invaded Cyprus in 1570, the capital Nicosia and several other towns fell quickly to the considerably superior Ottoman army. In response the Republic of Venice and the Holy League, a coalition of Christian states formed under the auspices of the Pope, declared war. A peace treaty signed on March 7, 1573 brought the Ottoman–Venetian War to an end with Venice ceding Cyprus to the Ottomans and paying a tribute of 300,000 ducats.
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| The 1571 Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement during the Ottoman–Venetian War |
1792 British astronomer William Herschel's only son, John was born on March 7, 1792. Highly intelligent, he placed first in mathematics exams and at 21, he became the youngest person admitted to the Royal Society. John Herschel built a reflecting telescope and invented the actinometer to measure the direct heating power of the sun's rays. He also made many contributions to the science of photography, and investigated color blindness and the chemical power of ultraviolet rays.
1804 The British and Foreign Bible Society was formed on March 7, 1804 when a group of Christians sought to address the problem of a lack of affordable Bibles in Welsh for Welsh-speaking Christians. It was to be the first of many similar organizations throughout the world.
1825 Thomas Jefferson co-founded the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. He was appointed to the building committee to supervise the construction and insisted on the use of classical forms to evoke the spirit of ancient republics and to teach proper taste to the students. The university's first classes met on March 7, 1825.
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| 1856 Lithograph of the Academical Village (Rotunda, Pavilions, and the Lawn) |
1875 Joseph-Maurice Ravel was born to a music-loving family on March 7, 1875, in Ciboure, France, to a Basque mother and a Swiss engineer father. He moved to Paris with his family as an infant. It soon became clear that Maurice was musically gifted, so his father arranged for him to have piano lessons with a well-known teacher. In 1889, aged just 14, Maurice entered France's most important musical college the Paris Conservatoire.
1876 Scottish-American inventor Alexander Graham Bell first transmitted sound over wires in June 1875. Bell spent the next six months making calculations. He filed his patent for a "telephone," which is Greek for sound, at New York Patent Office the following February. Bell was awarded the patent for the electric telephone by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on March 7, 1876.
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| Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent[81] drawing, March 7, 1876 |
1896 John Harvey Kellogg, the superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and his younger brother and general office assistant at the Sanatorium, William Keith Kellogg, came up with Corn Flakes in 1896. The new breakfast cereal was created by accident, after some boiled corn was left alone, one of his cooks found it had broken into crispy flakes. Kellogg served corn flakes for the first time to his patients at his hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan on March 7, 1896.
1900 The German SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first ocean liner to have a commercial wireless telegraphy system when the Marconi Company installed one in February 1900. This new technology allowed the ship to transmit telegraphic messages to shore, emphasizing her image of security. The first ship-to-shore message was sent on March 7, 1900.
1908 SMS Nassau was the first dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial German Navy, in response to the launching of the British battleship HMS Dreadnought. Nassau was laid down at the Imperial Shipyard in Wilhelmshaven and launched on March 7, 1908. Assigned to the First Battle Squadron of the German High Seas Fleet, Nassau saw service in the North Sea in the beginning of World War I.
1944 Ranulph Fiennes, who is regarded as the world’s greatest living explorer, was born on March 7, 1944. Fiennes was the first person to visit both the North and South Poles by surface means and the first to completely cross Antarctica on foot. After getting severe frostbite during an expedition in 2000, back home he sawed off his fingertips to avoid a £6,000 operation.
1962 The Beatles appeared on the BBC for the first time on March 7, 1962, recording for the radio show Here We Go. This also marked the group's first full live performance caught on tape, and the first performance in what would become their trademark collarless suits designed by Beno Dorn.
1964 On March 7, 1964, at a Roman parish church, Pope Paul VI celebrated the Mass in Italian instead of Latin. The date happened to be that year's First Sunday of Lent. This event marked the first time in centuries that a pope had celebrated Mass in a language other than Latin. The decision to allow the use of local languages in the liturgy was one of the most significant changes of the Second Vatican Council.
1965 Peaceful civil rights marchers in Alabama were attacked by police and white vigilantes on March 7, 1965 in an event known as "Bloody Sunday." Led by Dr Martin Luther King, the marchers intended to walk from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; 3,200 people eventually completed the march on March 21-25 protected by the federalized Alabama National Guard.
1976 Elton John was only the second rock act (after the Beatles) to be honored with a statue in Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London. His waxwork was unveiled on March 7, 1976. Elton John’s waxwork was no ordinary figure. It was the first talking and smiling figure, greeting visitors to the attraction with a special message recorded by Elton himself.
1987 On March 7, 1987, the Beastie Boys' debut album Licensed to Ill topped the US album chart, making it the first Rap album to reach #1 on the chart. The album had been released in November 1986 and had gradually climbed the charts.
2009 The Kepler Space Telescope was launched on March 7, 2009, by NASA. The primary mission of the Kepler telescope was to search for exoplanets in the Milky Way galaxy by monitoring the brightness of stars and detecting slight dips in brightness caused by orbiting planets passing in front of them. The telescope significantly contributed to the discovery of numerous exoplanets and provided valuable data for studying planetary systems beyond our own.
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