March 25 in History

Historical Events on March 25

708

Pope Constantine succeeds Pope Sisinnius as the 88th pope.
717

Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter the clergy.
919

Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.
1000

Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government.
1199

Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
1306

Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).
1409

The Council of Pisa opens.
1555

The city of Valencia is founded in present-day Venezuela.
1576

Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.
1584

Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1655

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1802

The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
1807

The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
1807

The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
1811

Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1821

Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821 (Julian calendar).
1865

American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
1894

Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
1911

In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
1917

The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
1918

The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
1924

On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
1931

The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1941

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
1947

An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
1948

The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
1949

More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
1957

United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
1957

The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
1965

Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1969

During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1971

Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistan Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians.
1971

The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
1975

Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
1979

The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1988

The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
1995

WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
1996

The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
2006

Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
2006

Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.

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