What are the important events that happened on March 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 7: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 7 is the 66^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 22, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,021,760 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontahexagon’ day.

Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 347 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,459 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 7 Historical Events

• 1799 –
  Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
• 1827 –
  Brazil marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
• 1876 –
  Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
• 1886 –
  The City of Lábrea in Amazonas, Brazil is founded. Today, the town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Lábrea.
• 1912 –
  Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
• 1914 –
  Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
• 1936 –
  World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
• 1986 –
  Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
• 2006 –
  The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
• 2009 –
  The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since The Troubles.

Who were born on March 7?

• 1785 –
  Alessandro Manzoni, Italian writer (d. 1873)
• 1872 –
  Piet Mondriaan, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
• 1875 –
  Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
• 1944 –
  Sir Ranulph Fiennes, British soldier and explorer
• 1949 –
  Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
• 1950 –
  Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
• 1967 –
  Ruthie Henshall, English theatre actress and singer
• 1979 –
  Amanda Somerville, American singer (Aina) and vocal coach
• 1985 –
  Andre Fluellen, American football player
• 2009 –
  Prince Umberto of Savoy

Who died on March 7?

• 1767 –
  Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer (b. 1680)
• 1810 –
  Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)
• 1904 –
  Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)
• 1949 –
  Bradbury Robinson, American football player (b. 1884)
• 1974 –
  Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
• 1983 –
  Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
• 1995 –
  Paul-Émile Victor, French explorer (b. 1907)
• 1997 –
  E. H. Bronner, German-American soap magnate (b. 1908)
• 2005 –
  John Box, British film production designer and art director (b. 1920)
• 2009 –
  Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (b. 1982)