March 25

Historic Events

2018

Syrian civil war: Following the completion of the Afrin offensive, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) initiate an insurgency against the Turkish occupation of the Afrin District. ›

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 2006 Belarusian presidential election, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested. ›

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). ›

1995

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

1988

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

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. ›

1975

Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew. ›

1971

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

1965

Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their four-day 50-mile (80 km) march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. ›

1959

Chain Island is sold by the State of California to Russell Gallaway III, a Sacramento businessman who plans to use it as a "hunting and fishing retreat", for $5,258.20 ($58,072 in 2025). ›

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. ›

1949

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

1948

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

1947

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

1941

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

1932

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is unveiled in Athens. ›

1931

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

1924

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

1919

The Tetiev pogrom occurs in Ukraine, becoming the prototype of mass murder during the Holocaust. ›

1918

The Belarusian People's Republic is established. ›

1917

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

1914

The Greek multi-sport club Aris Thessaloniki is founded in Thessaloniki. ›

1911

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

1911

Andrey Yushchinsky is murdered in Kiev, leading to the Beilis affair. ›

1905

The Greek football club P.A.E. G.S. Diagoras is founded in the city of Rhodes. ›

1894

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

1878

Last issue of the Bulletin de la Fédération jurassienne, the first or one of the first anarchist newspapers. ›

1865

American Civil War: In Virginia during the Siege of Petersburg, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union before being repulsed. ›

1845

New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army. ›

1821

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

1811

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

1807

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

1802

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

1776

American Revolutionary War: American Patriots conduct a Raid on Tybee Island, primarily seeking to capture runaway slaves who sought refuge with British forces stationed there. ›

1770

Daskalogiannis leads the people of Sfakia in the first Greek uprising against the Ottoman rule ›

1725

Bach's chorale cantata "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1", is first performed on the Feast of the Annunciation, coinciding with Palm Sunday. ›

1708

A French fleet anchors nears Fife Ness as part of the planned French invasion of Britain. ›

1655

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

1584

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

1576

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

1519

Hernán Cortés, entering province of Tabasco, defeats Tabascan Indians. ›

1410

The Yongle Emperor of Ming China launches the first of his military campaigns against the Mongols, resulting in the fall of the Mongol khan Bunyashiri. ›

1409

The Council of Pisa convenes, in an attempt to heal the Western Schism. ›

1306

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

1221

Coronation of Robert of Courtenay as Emperor of the Latin Empire. ›

1065

The Great German Pilgrimage is attacked on Good Friday by Beduin bandits, suffering heavy losses. ›

1000

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

919

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

717

Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter a monastery, allowing Leo III to take the throne and begin the Isaurian dynasty. ›

708

Election of Pope Constantine following the death of Pope Sisinnius. He would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until 1967. ›

421

Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto. ›

410

The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending the Southern Yan dynasty. ›