March 25 in History
421
March 25, 421:The city of Venice is formerly established.
708
March 25, 708:Constantine the Great becomes the 88th pope of the Catholic Church.
717
March 25, 717:Theodosius III reign as Byzantine emperor comes to an end after Leo III the Isaurian seizes power.
1306
March 25, 1306:Robert the Bruce, a national hero in Scotland, is crowned King of Scots after having being involved in the death of his arch rival John Comyn III of Badenoch.
1655
March 25, 1655:Dutch physicist and mathematician Christiaan Huygens discovers the largest moon of Saturn, the solar system’s second biggest planet.
1807
March 25, 1807:The Slave Trade Act 1807 is formerly approved by the British monarch.
1811
March 25, 1811:Percy Bysshe Shelley is dismissed from the University of Oxford for his essay on atheism titled “The Necessity of Atheism”.
1814
March 25, 1814:The Central bank of the Netherlands Bank, De Nederlandsche Bank NV is established.
1908
March 25, 1908:Popular professional football club Clube Atlético Mineiro, is established in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
1911
March 25, 1911:One of the deadliest industrial disasters hits the city of New York as over 140 workers of the Triangle Waist Company, a garment factory in Manhattan, perish in a fire incident.
1918
March 25, 1918:The autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church is restored.
- March 25, 1918:
Belarusian National Republic (BNR) is officially established.
1924
March 25, 1924:Greek admiral and naval officer Paul Koundouriotis is elected as president of Second Hellenic Republic.
1931
March 25, 1931:The Scottsboro Boys are apprehended and charged for raping two white women in Alabama.
1935
March 25, 1935:Belgian lawyer and politician Paul van Zeeland becomes Prime Minister of Belgium.
1947
March 25, 1947:Coal mine explodes and kills 111 miners in Centralia, Illinois.
1949
March 25, 1949:The Soviet mass deportation, coded Operation Priboi, begins. The action results in over 90,000 golchomags being forcefully relocated from the Baltic countries to hostile areas in Siberia.
1954
March 25, 1954:The first colored television set is produced by RCA.
1957
March 25, 1957:The Treaty of Rome is signed by major European nations like France, the Netherlands, West Germany, Italy, Luxemburg, and Belgium.
- March 25, 1957:
The National Basketball Association (NBA) makes changes in the free-throw rule.
- March 25, 1957:
The European Economic Community is founded.
1975
March 25, 1975:The king of Saudi Arabia, Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, is shot and killed by his mentally challenged nephew Faisal bin Musaid.
1988
March 25, 1988:The first mass demonstration since 1969 happens in the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava, against the communist regime.
1995
March 25, 1995:The first user-editable website, WikiWikiWeb is launched.
2006
March 25, 2006:Seven people, including a gunman, die in a mass shooting incident at Capitol Hill district in Seattle, Washington, U.S.
2015
March 25, 2015:English musician Zayn Malik of One Direction fame announces that he is departing the band.