📅 Today in HistoryMarch 7

Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.

Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Coblenz in the presence of the papal legate Theodwin.

The University of Paris issues the last in a series of condemnations of various philosophical and theological theses.

A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman-Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.

Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.

Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.

Shrigley abduction: 15-year old Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future figure in the establishment of colonies in South Australia and New Zealand.

Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.

Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".

Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, defeat the British at the Battle of Tweebosch.