Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 25

This is a list of selected March 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Scone Palace, Scotland
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  Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
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  Christiaan Huygens, Dutch astronomer
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  Percy Bysshe Shelley
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  Ward Cunningham
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  Titan, moon of Saturn
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  Titan, moon of Saturn
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  Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor
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  Robert the Bruce
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  Church of San Giacomo di Rialto, Venice
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  Faisal of Saudi Arabia

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Blurb	Reason
Feast of the Annunciation (Christianity);	refimprove section
; Independence Day in Greece (1821)	refimprove sections
Struggle for Human Rights Day in Slovakia	stub, refimprove
421 – According to legend, the city of Venice (in modern Italy) was founded exactly at the stroke of noon with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo at the islet of Rialto.	more citations needed
1306 – Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scotland at Scone.	refimprove section
1409 – The Council of Pisa, an unrecognized ecumenical conference of the Roman Catholic Church held in an attempt to end the Western Schism, opened in Pisa.	refimprove sections
1634 – Lord Baltimore, his younger brother Leonard Calvert, and a group of Catholic settlers founded the English colony of Maryland.	refimprove section
1802 – France and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Amiens, temporarily ending the hostilities between the two during the French Revolutionary Wars.	refimprove section
1811 – English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.	refimprove sections
1821 – Metropolitan Germanos III of Old Patras raised the Greek flag in the Monastery of Agia Lavra to symbolically mark the beginning of the Greek War of Independence.	refimprove section
1901 – First Philippine Republic ended when forced under the command of Brigadier General Frederick Funston, including Macabebe Scouts, captured General Emilio Aguinaldo at Palanan	refimprove section
1917 – Following the overthrow of the Russian tsar Nicholas II, Georgia's bishops unilaterally restored the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church.	missing information
1918 – The Belarusian People's Republic was established during World War I per the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, when Belarus was occupied by the German Empire.	refimprove section
1931 – The Scottsboro Boys were arrested and charged with rape, leading to a legal case that eventually established legal principles in the United States that criminal defendants are entitled to effective assistance of counsel.	lots of CN tags
1957 – West Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg signed the Treaty of Rome, establishing the European Economic Community.	refimprove
1995 – American computer programmer Ward Cunningham established the first wiki site, the WikiWikiWeb.	refimprove section
2006 – A gunman in Seattle, Washington, U.S., entered a rave afterparty and opened fire, killing six and wounding two, before committing suicide.	lots of CN tags

Eligible

• 717 – Byzantine emperor Theodosius III abdicated in favour of Leo the Isaurian after he captured Theodosius's son.
• 1387 – Hundred Years' War: The English navy captured more than 80 ships and at least 8,000 tuns of wine from an allied French, Castilian and Flemish fleet at the Battle of Margate in the English Channel.
• 1410 – The Yongle Emperor of Ming dynasty China launched the first of his military campaigns against the Mongols, resulting in the fall of the Mongol khan Bunyashiri.
• 1655 – Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of the planet Saturn.
• 1807 – The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
• 1903 – The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (ship pictured) anchored in the South Orkney Islands with the intention of establishing the first meteorological station in Antarctic territory.
• 1934 – Enrico Fermi published his discovery of neutron-induced radioactivity, for which he was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938.
• 1948 – Meteorologists at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, United States, issued the world's first tornado forecast after noticing conditions similar to another tornado that had struck five days earlier.
• 1975 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot and killed by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid.
• Born/died: | Kō no Moronao and Kō no Moroyasu |d|1351| Sophie Blanchard |b|1778| Selim Sırrı Tarcan |b|1874| Frances Glessner Lee |b|1878| Melita Norwood |b|1912| Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas |d|1927| Harriet Backer |d|1932| Gloria Steinem |b|1934| Elton John |b|1947| Lorna Arnold |d|2014

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

March 25: Fast of the Firstborn (Judaism, 2021); Bengali Genocide Remembrance Day

• 708 – Pope Constantine was selected as one of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy; he would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until Paul VI in 1967.
• 1708 – Jacobite risings: A French fleet anchored near Fife Ness as part of the planned French invasion of Britain.
• 1911 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (pictured) in New York City killed 146 sweatshop workers, many of whom could not escape because the doors to the stairwells and exits had been locked.
• 1949 – The Soviet Union began mass deportations of more than 90,000 people from the Baltic states to Siberia.
• 1971 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese forces abandoned a campaign to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail, which supplied North Vietnamese troops, in Laos.

• José de Espronceda (b. 1808)
• Alexandra of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)
• Marcel Lefebvre (d. 1991)

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