25651 | March 7 | Event | 1987 – Lieyu Massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen. |
25652 | March 7 | Event | 1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. |
25653 | March 7 | Event | 2006 – The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India. |
25654 | March 7 | Event | 2007 – The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. |
25655 | March 7 | Event | 2009 – The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles. |
25656 | March 7 | Event | 2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched. |
25657 | March 7 | Event | 2014 – The opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Paralympics take place in Sochi, Russia. |
25658 | March 7 | Birth | 189 – Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor (d. 211) |
25659 | March 7 | Birth | 1481 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537) |
25660 | March 7 | Birth | 1507 – Magdalena of Saxony (d. 1534) |
25661 | March 7 | Birth | 1556 – Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (d. 1621) |
25662 | March 7 | Birth | 1663 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1745) |
25663 | March 7 | Birth | 1671 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (d. 1734) |
25664 | March 7 | Birth | 1678 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Superga (d. 1736) |
25665 | March 7 | Birth | 1687 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian and author (d. 1760) |
25666 | March 7 | Birth | 1693 – Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769) |
25667 | March 7 | Birth | 1715 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German soldier and poet (d. 1759) |
25668 | March 7 | Birth | 1715 – Ephraim Williams, English soldier (d. 1755) |
25669 | March 7 | Birth | 1723 – Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy (d. 1725) |
25670 | March 7 | Birth | 1730 – Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French soldier and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1807) |
25671 | March 7 | Birth | 1765 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography (d. 1833) |
25672 | March 7 | Birth | 1785 – Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author and poet (d. 1873) |
25673 | March 7 | Birth | 1788 – Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and biochemist (d. 1878) |
25674 | March 7 | Birth | 1792 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871) |
25675 | March 7 | Birth | 1811 – Increase A. Lapham, American botanist and author (d. 1875) |
25676 | March 7 | Birth | 1837 – Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882) |
25677 | March 7 | Birth | 1841 – William Rockhill Nelson, American businessman and publisher, founded The Kansas City Star (d. 1915) |
25678 | March 7 | Birth | 1849 – Luther Burbank, American botanist and author (d. 1926) |
25679 | March 7 | Birth | 1850 – Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1921) |
25680 | March 7 | Birth | 1850 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937) |