| 25981 | March 8 | Event | 1844 – King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. |
| 25982 | March 8 | Event | 1862 – American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia. |
| 25983 | March 8 | Event | 1868 – Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka. |
| 25984 | March 8 | Event | 1910 – French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license. |
| 25985 | March 8 | Event | 1911 – International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. |
| 25986 | March 8 | Event | 1914 – First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok. |
| 25987 | March 8 | Event | 1916 – World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila. |
| 25988 | March 8 | Event | 1917 – International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar). |
| 25989 | March 8 | Event | 1917 – The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule. |
| 25990 | March 8 | Event | 1920 – The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established. |
| 25991 | March 8 | Event | 1921 – Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid. |
| 25992 | March 8 | Event | 1924 – The Castle Gate Mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah. |
| 25993 | March 8 | Event | 1936 – Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race. |
| 25994 | March 8 | Event | 1937 – Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins. |
| 25995 | March 8 | Event | 1942 – World War II: Dutch forces surrender to Japanese forces on Java. |
| 25996 | March 8 | Event | 1947 – Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement. |
| 25997 | March 8 | Event | 1949 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason. |
| 25998 | March 8 | Event | 1949 – President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor Bảo Đại sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam. |
| 25999 | March 8 | Event | 1957 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis. |
| 26000 | March 8 | Event | 1957 – The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia. |
| 26001 | March 8 | Event | 1957 – Ghana joins the United Nations. |
| 26002 | March 8 | Event | 1963 – The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command. |
| 26003 | March 8 | Event | 1965 – 3,500 United States Marines are the first land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War. |
| 26004 | March 8 | Event | 1966 – A bomb planted by Irish Republican Army militants destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin. |
| 26005 | March 8 | Event | 1971 – The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision. |
| 26006 | March 8 | Event | 1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. |
| 26007 | March 8 | Event | 1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4. |
| 26008 | March 8 | Event | 1979 – Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time. |
| 26009 | March 8 | Event | 1983 – While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire". |
| 26010 | March 8 | Event | 1985 – A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others. |