7 March AD 2019
22 February AM 7527
12th Indiction
Non. Mart. MMDCCLXXII A.U.C.
Feast of Our Lady of the Star,
Villa Viciosa, Portugal
Feast of St Thomas Aquinas
Feast of Bld Leonid Ivanovich Feodorov
- 321 – Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
- 1274 – Saint Thomas Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor, died (b. 1225)
- 1277 – Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses, including several of the Angelic Doctor', on the 3rd anniversary of his death!
- 1604 -- Pierre de Monts, Samuel de Champlain and Sieur de Poutrincourt leave Havre-de-Grace for Acadia; Poutrincourt wants to relocate his family to New France and establish a settlement; François Gravé du Pont sails three days earlier. Le Havre, France
- 1657 - Aboriginal - King Louis XIV prohibits sale of liquor to Indians in New France. Paris, France
- 1671 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw born (d. 1734)
- 1693 – Clement XIII, Pope, born
- 1724 – Pope Innocent XIII died (b. 1655)
- 1791 - Prime Minister Pitt introduces The Constitutional Act into the House of Commons; to divide Canada into two provinces; Royal Assent March 14. London, England
- 1850 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia and traitor to his King, born (d. 1937)
- 1866 - Military - Minister of Militia George-Étienne Cartier puts 10,000 militia on alert after Fenians hold meeting in New York and threaten invasion; as precaution against anticipated attacks on St. Patrick's Day. Ottawa, Ontario. The Fenian Raids, IMHO, were the third attempt by the US to invade Canada. They were financed by Irish Americans and the US government looked the other way. Of course, just like the first two attempts they got kicked back across the border!
- 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone"(The year my Grandmother was born.-JW).
- 1900 - Boer War - Canadian Volunteers engage Boers in artillery fight at Poplar Grove. Poplar Grove, South Africa
- 1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
- 1963 - FLQ starts campaign of violence by hurling Molotov cocktails at three Canadian Army armories. Québec
- 1965 - Roman Catholic churches in Canada celebrate Mass in the English or French vernacular for the first time; due to the reforms of Vatican II. (A black day!)
- 1969 - Pierre-Paul Geoffroy pleads guilty to 129 charges of making and placing bombs, conspiracy, theft and possession of dynamite; FLQ member connected to 31 Montréal-area bombings. Montréal, Québec
- 1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
- 1990 - Nova Scotia Court of Appeal rules Nova Scotia Micmacs have constitutional right to hunt and fish for food as long as they obey conservation guidelines. Nova Scotia
- 2007 – The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected (Which, Deo gratias, has not happened! Give u back the House of (hereditary) Lords!-JW)
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