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Scone Palace, Scotland
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch astronomer
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ward Cunningham
Titan, moon of Saturn
Titan, moon of Saturn
Robert the Bruce
Church of San Giacomo di Rialto, Venice
Pope Constantine
Faisal of Saudi Arabia
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Yongle Emperor
Enrico Fermi
Chain Island- Enrico Fermi
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Feast of the Annunciation (Christianity) | |
| Independence Day in Greece (1821) | refimprove sections |
| Struggle for Human Rights Day in Slovakia | stub, refimprove |
| Fast of the Firstborn (Judaism, 2021) | lots of unreferenced statements |
| 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 |
| 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. | Date not cited |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1971 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese forces abandoned a campaign to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail, which supplied North Vietnamese troops, in Laos. | Uncited lead and infobox says 25 March, main text states operation ended 6 April; neutrality dispute |
| Kō no Moroyasu |d|1351| | orange tagged |
| Marcel Lefebvre |d|1991| | orange tagged |
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- 717 – Byzantine emperor Theodosius III abdicated in favour of Leo the Isaurian after he captured Theodosius's son.
- 1410 – The Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty launched the first of his military campaigns against the Mongols, resulting in the fall of the Mongol khan Bunyashiri.
- 1458 – Wars of the Roses: A formal reconciliation ceremony between the Lancastrians and Yorkists led to a brief period of peace.
- 1708 – Jacobite risings: A French fleet anchored near Fife Ness as part of a planned French invasion of Britain.
- 1725 – Bach's chorale cantata Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern was first performed on the Feast of the Annunciation, which coincided that year with Palm Sunday.
- 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: In their second battle in seven days, the French Army of the Danube and Habsburg forces battled for control of the Hegau region.
- 1807 – The Slave Trade Act, which abolished the Atlantic slave trade in the British Empire, received royal assent.
- 1911 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire 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.
- 1915 – The appointment of Mehmed Reshid as governor of Diyarbekir, Turkey, intensified the genocide of Syriac Christians by pro-Ottoman forces.
- 1917 – Following the overthrow of the Russian tsar Nicholas II, Georgia's bishops unilaterally restored the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
- 1917 – World War I: A delayed action bomb left by German troops exploded in the town hall of Bapaume, France, killing 24 soldiers and civilians.
- 1934 – Enrico Fermi published his discovery of neutron-induced radioactivity, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- 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 "undesirable" people from the Baltic states to Siberia.
- 1975 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot and killed by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid.
- 1995 – American computer programmer Ward Cunningham established the first wiki site, the WikiWikiWeb.
- 2006 – A gunman in Seattle, Washington, U.S., entered a rave afterparty and opened fire, killing six and wounding two, before committing suicide.
- 2008 – Invasion of Anjouan began as Comoros and African Union forces launched an assault to remove Mohamed Bacar from power in Anjouan.
- Born/died: | Li Kening |d|908| Kō no Moronao |d|1351| Marcos de Niza |d|1558| Sophie Blanchard |b|1778| José de Espronceda |b|1808| Selim Sırrı Tarcan |b|1874| Frances Glessner Lee |b|1878| Melita Norwood |b|1912| Alexandra of Yugoslavia |b|1921| Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas |d|1927| Jim Lovell |b|1928| Russell Sherman |b|1930| Harriet Backer |d|1932| Gloria Steinem |b|1934| Elton John |b|1947| Francie Bellew |b|1976| Bassirou Diomaye Faye |b|1980| Rob Jetten |b|1987| Mikey Madison |b|1999| Viacheslav Chornovil |d|1999| Lorna Arnold |d|2014|
March 25: Feast of the Annunciation (Christianity); Bangladesh Genocide Remembrance Day
Scotia, part of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
- 708 – Constantine was selected as one of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy.
- 1655 – Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of Saturn.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: American Patriot forces in Georgia conducted a raid on Tybee Island, with the primary goal of capturing runaway slaves seeking refuge with the British.
- 1903 – The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (ship pictured) anchored in the South Orkney Islands with the intention of establishing the first weather station in Antarctic territory.
- 2006 – Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the presidential vote days earlier, were arrested, including opposition leader Alyaksandr Kazulin.
- Novalis (d. 1801)
- Magda Olivero (b. 1910)
- Gene Shalit (b. 1926)
- Wladimir Klitschko (b. 1976)