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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  Cæcilius 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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  Robert the Bruce
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  Church of San Giacomo di Rialto, Venice
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  Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
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.	unreferenced section
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, no footnotes
1634 – Lord Baltimore, his younger brother Leonard Calvert, and a group of Catholic settlers founded the English colony of Maryland.	refimprove
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
1957 – West Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg signed the Treaty of Rome, establishing the European Economic Community.	refimprove

Eligible

• 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 Pope Paul VI in 1967.
• 1410 – The Yongle Emperor launched the first of his military campaigns against the Mongols, resulting in the fall of the Mongol khan Bunyashiri.
• 1807 – The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
• 1811 – English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
• 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.
• 1911 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City killed more than 140 sweatshop workers, many of whom could not escape because the doors to the stairwells and exits had been locked.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1949 – The Soviet Union began mass deportations of more than 90,000 people from the Baltic states to Siberia.
• 1971 – Vietnam War: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandoned an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
• 2006 – A gunman in Seattle, Washington, US, entered a rave afterparty and opened fire, killing six and wounding two, before committing suicide.

March 25: Feast of the Annunciation (Christianity); Independence Day in Greece (1821)

• 1655 – Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of the planet Saturn.
• 1802 – France and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Amiens, temporarily ending the hostilities between the two during the French Revolutionary Wars.
• 1917 – Following the overthrow of the Russian tsar Nicholas II, Georgia's bishops unilaterally restored the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
• 1975 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (pictured) was shot and killed by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid.
• 1995 – American computer programmer Ward Cunningham established the first wiki site, the WikiWikiWeb.

More anniversaries:

• March 24
• March 25
• March 26