Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 8
March 8: International Women's Day; Mother's Day in Albania
- 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion.
- 1702 - Princess Anne of the House of Stuart became Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland.
- 1782 - Almost 100 Native Americans died in the hands of Pennsylvanian militiamen in a mass murder known as the Gnadenhütten massacre.
- 1844 - Oscar I acceded to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
- 1966 - Nelson's Pillar, a large granite pillar with a statue of Lord Horatio Nelson on top in Dublin, Ireland, was destroyed by a bomb.