On this day: 25 March
Events, births and deaths on 25 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Masahiro Shinoda
- Deaths · Tapani Kansa
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · László Papp
- Births · Riz Ortolani
- Births · Gene Shalit
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1005 · Deaths · Kenneth III of Scotland
- 940 · Deaths · Taira no Masakado
- 1051 · Deaths · Hugh IV, Count of Maine
Events · 19
- 421(Julian date)Venice — capital city of Veneto, Italy
- 1458(Julian date)The Love Day — arbitration event during the Wars of the Roses
- 1799Battle of Stockach — 1799 battle during the War of the Second Coalition
- 1802Treaty of Amiens — 1802 Treaty during the War of the Second Coalition
- 1865Battle of Fort Stedman — 1865 battle of the American Civil War during the Siege of Petersburg
- 1905Diagoras Rodos F.C. — football club
- 1911Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire — 1911 factory fire in New York City
- 1914(Julian date)Aris Thessaloniki — multi-sports club in Greece
- 1918Belarusian People's Republic — short lived Belarusian Republic from 1918 - 1919
- 1924Second Hellenic Republic — historiographical concept of Greece (1924–1935)
- 1932Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Athens — memorial to Greece's war dead, below the Parliament building
- 19481948 Tinker Air Force Base tornadoes — Two tornadoes which struck Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on March 20 and 25, 1948
- 1949Operation Priboi — code name for the Soviet mass deportation from the Baltic states on 25–28 March 1949
- 1957Treaty of Rome — Founding Treaties of the European Communities (1957)
- 1988candle demonstration — 1988 mass demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia
- 1995
- 2005Expo 2005 — World Expo held in Aichi, Japan
- 2006Capitol Hill massacre — U.S. mass murder
- 20072007 Noto earthquake — earthquake in Japan
Births · 60
- 1252(Julian date)Conradin — Duke of Swabia, King of Jerusalem and King of Sicily (1252–1268)
- 1259Andronikos II Palaiologos — Byzantine Emperor from 1282 to 1328
- 1297Andronikos III Palaiologos — Byzantine emperor (r. 1328–1341)
- 1347(Julian date)Catherine of Siena — Italian Dominican saint (1347-1380)
- 1479(Julian date)Vasili III of Moscow — Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1505 to 1533
- 1538(Julian date)Christopher Clavius — German astronomer and mathematician (1538–1612)
- 1541(Julian date)Francesco I de' Medici — Grand Duke of Tuscany (1541-1587)
- 1611Evliya Çelebi — Turkish traveler and writer (1611–1682)
- 1699Johann Adolf Hasse — German composer, singer and teacher (1699-1783)
- 1767Joachim Murat — Grand Duke of Berg and Cleves, The king of Naples (1767-1815)
- 1782Caroline Bonaparte — Queen of Naples and Sicily (1782-1839)
- 1808José de Espronceda — Spanish poet (1808-1842)
- 1867Arturo Toscanini — Italian conductor (1867–1957)
- 1867Gutzon Borglum — American sculptor (1867–1941)
- 1873Rudolf Rocker — German anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist (1873-1958)
- 1881Béla Bartók — Hungarian composer and pianist (1881–1945)
- 1901Ed Begley — American actor (1901–1970)
- 1906A. J. P. Taylor — English historian (1906-1990)
- 1908David Lean — British filmmaker and editor (1908–1991)
- 1914Norman Borlaug — American biologist (1914–2009)
- 1920Patrick Troughton — English actor (1920–1987)
- 1921Simone Signoret — French actress (1921-1985)
- 1921Alexandra of Yugoslavia — queen consort of Yugoslavia from 1944 to 1945
- 1921Nancy Kelly — American actress (1921–1995)
- 1924Roberts Blossom — American actor and poet (1924–2011)
Deaths · 60
- 940(Julian date)Taira no Masakado — samurai who led one of the largest insurgent forces in the Heian period against the central government in Kyoto
- 1005(Julian date)Kenneth III of Scotland — King of Alba
- 1051Hugh IV, Count of Maine — French noble
- 1189(Julian date)Frederick, Duke of Bohemia — Duke of Bohemia (c. 1142 – 1189)
- 1223Afonso II of Portugal — King of Portugal
- 1458Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana — Castilian politician and poet (1398-1458)
- 1625Giambattista Marino — Italian poet (1569-1625)
- 1677Wenceslaus Hollar — Czech cartographer, painter of nature, portrait painter and engraver (1607-1677)
- 1712Nehemiah Grew — English plant anatomist and physiologist (1641-1712)
- 1732Lucy Filippini — 18th-century Roman Catholic saint
- 1736Nicholas Hawksmoor — British architect (1661–1736)
- 1738Turlough O'Carolan — Irish harpist and composer
- 1801Novalis — German poet and writer (1772-1801)
- 1818Caspar Wessel — Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer (1745–1818)
- 1848Nicolai Wergeland — Father of the Constitution of Norway (1780-1848)
- 1857William Colgate — soap manufacturer and philanthropist (2783-1857)
- 1860James Braid — Scottish surgeon, hypnotist, and hypnotherapist (1795–1860)
- 1865Feliks Paweł Jarocki — Polish entomologist (1790-1865)
- 1869Edward Bates — American politician, lawyer and judge (1793-1869)
- 1873Wilhelm Marstrand — painter and illustrator (1810-1873)
- 1907Ernst von Bergmann — Baltic German surgeon (1836-1907)
- 1913Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley — Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army (1833-1913)
- 1914Frédéric Mistral — Provençal writer, poet, lexicographer and founder of Le Félibrige (1830–1914)
- 1918Claude Debussy — French classical composer (1862–1918)
- 1927Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas — Palestinian Christian nun and saint (1843–1927)
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