March 25 Historical Events
The following events took place on March 25. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 46 events. Showing 1 - 30.
- 421Venice is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.
- 708Pope Constantine succeeds Pope Sisinnius as the 88th pope.
- 717Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter the clergy.
- 1199Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
- 1306Robert the Bruce becomes king of Scotland.
- 1409The Council of Pisa opens.
- 1555The city of Valencia is founded in present-day Venezuela.
- 1584Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
- 1634The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
- 1655Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
- 1802The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a “Definitive Treaty of Peace” between France and the United Kingdom.
- 1807The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
- 1807The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
- 1811Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
- 1821(Julian calendar) Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821. The date was chosen in the early years of the Greek state so that it falls on the day of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, strengthening the ties between the Greek Orthodox Church and the newly founded state.
- 1865American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
- 1894Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
- 1911In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
- 1914Aris is founded in Thessaloniki.
- 1917The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
- 1918The Belarusian People’s Republic is established.
- 1924On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
- 1931The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
- 1941The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
- 1947An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
- 1948The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
- 1949The extensive deportation campaign known as March deportation is conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to force collectivisation by way of terror. The Soviet authorities deport more than 92,000 people from the Baltics to remote areas of the Soviet Union.
- 1957United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” on obscenity grounds.
- 1957The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
- 1958Canada’s Avro Arrow makes its first flight.
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