March 8: Major Events in World History
March 8, 2026
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Persian poet Abū l-Qāsem Ferdowsi completes the Shahnameh, an epic of about 50,000 verses preserving legends and early Persian history. The work becomes one of the foundational masterpieces of Persian literature and cultural identity.
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