Historical Events on March 25

Events 1 - 200 of 246

• 1 Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word
• 31 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus

• 421 Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded
• 708 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1150 Tichborne family of Hampshire England start tradition of giving gallon of flour to residents to keep deathbed promise

• 1409 Council of Pisa opens - elects Antipope Alexander V
• 1436 Florentine cathedral Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore with dome by Filippo Brunelleschi consecrated by Pope Eugene IV (begun 1296)
• 1571 Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves England
• 1581 Portuguese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal

• 1593 Recantation of Loos, Dutch scholar Coinelius Loos recants his earlier written protest against witchcraft persecution in Trier, Germany before officials in Brussels
• 1598 Cornelis de Houtman's fleet departs for East-Indies

• 1634 Under charter granted to Lord Baltimore and led by his brother Leonard Calvert first settlers found Catholic colony of Maryland


• 1647 Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay
• 1655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan (Saturn's largest satellite)
• 1668 1st horse race in America takes place
• 1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000

• 1802 Great Britain and the French Republic sign the Treaty of Amiens
• 1807 First fare-paying, passenger railway service in the world established on the Oystermouth Railway in Swansea, Wales

• 1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism
• 1813 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex
• 1814 Netherlands Bank established
• 1817 Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians
• 1820 Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack
• 1821 The Greek revolution against the Ottoman Turks is officially declared, with hostilities having started two months earlier

• 1847 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"
• 1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California


• 1852 Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer" premieres in Munich
• 1856 A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine
• 1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
• 1857 Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville receives a patent for his phonautograph, a device which created visual images of sound
• 1863 1st US Army Medal of Honor awarded
• 1863 Skirmish at Brentwood Tennessee
• 1864 Battle of Paducah, Kentuckey (Forrest's raid)
• 1865 Battle of Bluff Spring, Florida
• 1865 Battle of Petersburg: In an unsuccessful counter attack, Confederate forces attack Fort Stedman
• 1865 Battle of Mobile, Alabama (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
• 1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400
• 1876 Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0)
• 1881 43rd Grand National: Irish jockey Tommy Beasley wins his second consecutive GN aboard 11/2 co-favourite Woodbrook
• 1882 1st demonstration of pancake making, held at a department store in NYC
• 1887 49th Grand National: Bill Daniels aboard 20/1 chance Gamecock wins by 3 lengths from Savoyard
• 1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
• 1889 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town v England
• 1894 Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon, Ohio, for Washington, D.C.
• 1895 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
• 1898 Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC
• 1898 60th Grand National: John Gourley wins aboard 25/1 shot Drogheda
• 1898 Swami Vivekananda initiates Margaret Noble (Sister Nivedita) into vow of Brahmacharya, first western woman received into Indian monastic order
• 1900 US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis
• 1901 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown, Iowa
• 1902 Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine
• 1902 In Russia, 567 students are tried for rioting and 'political disaffection' are found guilty; 95 are banished to Siberia
• 1903 Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, is founded.
• 1904 66th Grand National: Arthur Birch wins aboard 25/1 New Zealand bred Moifaa; horse survives shipwreck off Ireland a year earlier
• 1905 Confederate battle flags captured during the American Civil War are returned to South
• 1907 Stanley Cup, Winnipeg Auditorium, Winnipeg, Manitoba: Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles, 6-5 but win on 2 game aggregate, 12-8
• 1908 Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
• 1910 Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ
• 1911 L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay
• 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls
• 1913 Great Dayton Flood: winter rains cause Great Miami River to flood, Ohio's greatest natural disaster
• 1913 Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC) starring Ed Wynn
• 1915 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21
• 1915 German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea
• 1916 Jess Willard fights Frank Moran to no decision in 10 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC

• 1918 The Belarusian People's Republic is established.

• 1920 Greek Independence Day
• 1923 British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
• 1924 Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier
• 1924 Stanley Cup Final, Ottawa Auditorium, Ottawa, ON: Montreal Canadiens (NHL) beat Calgary Tigers (WCHL), 3-0 for a 2-0 series sweep
• 1927 86th Grand National: 8/1 favourite Sprig wins; ridden by jockey Ted Leader, trained by his father Tom Leader
• 1931 Hal Kemp & his orchestra record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis
• 1931 Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama
• 1934 1st Augusta National Invitation Tournament (Masters) Golf: Horton Smith wins with 20-foot birdie putt at the 17th hole, 1 stroke ahead of Craig Wood
• 1935 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns
• 1936 200-inch mirror blank leaves for California to be ground
• 1936 Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30s)

• 1937 Italy & Yugoslavia sign non-aggression treaty (Pact of Belgrade)


• 1937 Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot
• 1937 Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
• 1938 97th Grand National: 17 year old jockey Bruce Hobbs wins aboard 40/1 Battleship; first US bred and owned winner; only horse to win GN and American Grand National (1934)
• 1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart
• 1941 Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon, South Carolina, incorporated
• 1942 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov district reach the Bełżec Concentration camp
• 1943 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt nazi registration
• 1943 Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio
• 1944 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome
• 1944 RAF Flight Sgt Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet over Germany without a parachute; his fall broken by pine trees and soft snow, he suffers only a sprained leg
• 1945 US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen
• 1945 US 4th Armored div arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg
• 1945 US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa

• 1947 9th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Holy Cross beats Oklahoma, 58-47; Crusaders' first victory in first title game
• 1947 Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia
• 1947 Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill, claims 111
• 1947 Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v NZ, Christchurch)
• 1949 The Soviet Union begins Operation Pribioi, the mass deportation of 90,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians to inhospitable areas in the Soviet Union
• 1950 104th Grand National: Jimmy Power wins aboard 10/1 Irish co-favourite Freebooter; estimated 500,00 in attendance including Royal Family
• 1950 Wales outclasses France, 21-0 at the National Stadium, Cardiff to clinch the Five Nations Rugby Championship, Grand Slam and Triple Crown
• 1951 5th Tony Awards: "Guys & Dolls" (musical) & "Rose Tatoo" (play) win
• 1951 E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab

• 1954 Pope Pius XII encyclical "Sacra virginitas" (On consecrated virginity)
• 1954 RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12½" screen at $1,000)
• 1955 East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR

• 1957 NBA modifies the free-throw rule
• 1957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market)

• 1958 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
• 1959 Bill White traded to St Louis for pitchers Sam Jones & Don Choate
• 1959 French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary
• 1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)

• 1960 Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires
• 1960 Italian government Tambroni forms
• 1961 "13 Daughters" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 28 performances
• 1961 "Gypsy" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 702 performances

• 1961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
• 1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
• 1961 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah, 127-120 in quadruple overtime
• 1961 115th Grand National: Bobby Beasley wins aboard Nicolaus Silver, 5 lengths ahead of defending champion Merryman II; first grey winner for 90 years
• 1962 "Family Affair" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances
• 1962 French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested
• 1963 KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting

• 1964 Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64)

• 1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution
• 1966 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
• 1966 Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled

• 1967 The Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1
• 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1967 Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show
• 1968 KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting


• 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1968 Members of the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) disrupt a meeting of Londonderry Corporation to protest at the lack of housing provision in the city, Northern Ireland
• 1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru

• 1969 Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president

• 1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
• 1971 Boston Patriots become New England Patriots
• 1971 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers

• 1972 "Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 performances

• 1972 America's LP "America" goes #1

• 1972 UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title
• 1972 17th Eurovision Song Contest: Vicky Leandros for Luxembourg wins singing "Apres toi" in Edinburgh
• 1973 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52, Immaculata 1st undefeated team in New York
• 1973 27th Tony Awards: "That Championship Season" and "Little Night Music" win

• 1976 "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances
• 1976 "Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC for 48 performances
• 1976 Argentine miltary junta bans leftist political parties
• 1978 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, UCLA beat Maryland 90-74 in Los Angeles
• 1979 Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest
• 1979 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Old Dominion beat Louisiana Tech 75-65 in Greensboro

• 1982 1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" starring Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly on CBS-TV
• 1983 Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec)
• 1983 Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58)

• 1985 Edwin Meese III takes office as US Attorney General
• 1986 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
• 1986 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
• 1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
• 1987 Supreme Court rules women and minorities may get jobs if less qualified
• 1988 "Les Miserables" opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya, Japan
• 1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-206

• 1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
• 1990 "Lettice & Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances
• 1990 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins
• 1990 Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87

• 1991 Allan Border takes 5-68 v WI at Bourda (!), Georgetown

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