# What happened on March 25 in history?

**Date:** March 25  
**Events recorded:** 54  
**Years spanned:** 410 – 2018  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/march/25/

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## Featured Event

**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.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war)

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## Events on this date

- **410** — The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending the Southern Yan dynasty. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Yan))
- **421** — Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice))
- **708** — Election of Pope Constantine following the death of Pope Sisinnius. He would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until 1967. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Constantine))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_III))
- **919** — Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanos_I_Lekapenos))
- **1000** — Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_1000))
- **1065** — The Great German Pilgrimage is attacked on Good Friday by Beduin bandits, suffering heavy losses. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_German_Pilgrimage_of_1064%E2%80%9365))
- **1221** — Coronation of Robert of Courtenay as Emperor of the Latin Empire. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_I%2C_Latin_Emperor))
- **1306** — Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_the_Bruce))
- **1409** — The Council of Pisa convenes, in an attempt to heal the Western Schism. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Pisa))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongle_Emperor))
- **1519** — Hernán Cortés, entering province of Tabasco, defeats Tabascan Indians. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s))
- **1576** — Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newington_Butts_Theatre))
- **1584** — Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh))
- **1655** — Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn))
- **1708** — A French fleet anchors nears Fife Ness as part of the planned French invasion of Britain. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife_Ness))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorale_cantata_(Bach)))
- **1770** — Daskalogiannis leads the people of Sfakia in the first Greek uprising against the Ottoman rule ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daskalogiannis))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War))
- **1802** — The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Amiens))
- **1807** — The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea_and_Mumbles_Railway))
- **1811** — Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley))
- **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). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_War_of_Independence))
- **1845** — New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Army))
- **1865** — American Civil War: In Virginia during the Siege of Petersburg, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union before being repulsed. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War))
- **1878** — Last issue of the Bulletin de la Fédération jurassienne, the first or one of the first anarchist newspapers. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_de_la_F%C3%A9d%C3%A9ration_jurassienne))
- **1894** — Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxey's_Army))
- **1905** — The Greek football club P.A.E. G.S. Diagoras is founded in the city of Rhodes. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.A.E._G.S._Diagoras))
- **1911** — In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire))
- **1911** — Andrey Yushchinsky is murdered in Kiev, leading to the Beilis affair. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv))
- **1914** — The Greek multi-sport club Aris Thessaloniki is founded in Thessaloniki. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aris_Thessaloniki))
- **1917** — The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Orthodox_Church))
- **1918** — The Belarusian People's Republic is established. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_People's_Republic))
- **1919** — The Tetiev pogrom occurs in Ukraine, becoming the prototype of mass murder during the Holocaust. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Ukraine))
- **1924** — On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_War_of_Independence))
- **1931** — The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottsboro_Boys))
- **1932** — The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is unveiled in Athens. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_the_Unknown_Soldier_(Athens)))
- **1941** — The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Yugoslavia))
- **1947** — An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_Centralia_mine_disaster))
- **1948** — The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_warning))
- **1949** — More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak))
- **1957** — United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Customs_and_Border_Protection))
- **1957** — The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Community))
- **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). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_Island))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement))
- **1971** — The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Republic_of_Vietnam))
- **1975** — Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle))
- **1988** — The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle_demonstration_in_Bratislava))
- **1995** — WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb))
- **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). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union))
- **2006** — Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_massacre))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war))

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## Notable births on March 25

- **2000** — **Ozan Kabak** — Turkish footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozan_Kabak))
- **1999** — **Mikey Madison** — American actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikey_Madison))
- **1994** — **Justine Dufour-Lapointe** — Canadian skier ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_Dufour-Lapointe))
- **1993** — **Jacob Gagan** — Australian rugby league player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Gagan))
- **1993** — **Sam Johnstone** — English footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Johnstone))
- **1992** — **Meg Lanning** — Australian cricketer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Lanning))
- **1991** — **Scott Malone** — English footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Malone))
- **1990** — **Mehmet Ekici** — Turkish footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Ekici))
- **1990** — **Alexander Esswein** — German footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Esswein))
- **1989** — **Aly Michalka** — American singer-songwriter and guitarist ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aly_Michalka))

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## Notable deaths on March 25

- **2026** — **Dash Crofts** — American musician (born 1938) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_Crofts))
- **2026** — **Alexander Kluge** — German author, film director and public intellectual (born 1932) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kluge))
- **2025** — **Tapani Kansa** — Finnish singer (born 1949) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapani_Kansa))
- **2025** — **Terry Manning** — American musician and recording engineer (born 1947) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Manning))
- **2022** — **Taylor Hawkins** — American drummer and singer (born 1972) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Hawkins))
- **2021** — **Beverly Cleary** — American author (born 1916) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Cleary))
- **2020** — **Floyd Cardoz** — Indian-born American chef (born 1960) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Cardoz))
- **2019** — **Barrie Hole** — Welsh footballer (born 1942) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrie_Hole))
- **2017** — **Cuthbert Sebastian** — St. Kitts and Nevis politician (born 1921) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert_Sebastian))
- **2016** — **Shannon Bolin** — American actress and singer (born 1917) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Bolin))

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