What are the important events that happened on March 25? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 25: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 25 is the 84th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 281 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 12, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,047,680 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘octacontatetragon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 329 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,477 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 25 Historical Events
- 1306 –Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
- 1655 –Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
- 1802 –The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a “Definitive Treaty of Peace” between France and the United Kingdom.
- 1811 –Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
- 1911 –In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
- 1948 –The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
- 1975 –Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
- 1992 –Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
- 1996 –An 81-day-long standoff between the anti-government group Montana Freemen and law enforcement near Jordan, Montana, begins.
- 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).
Who were born on March 25?
- 1539 –Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612)
- 1886 –Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
- 1903 –Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (d. 2001)
- 1921 –Nancy Kelly, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1946 –Stephen Hunter, American author
- 1954 –Elli Stai, Greek journalist and TV presenter
- 1964 –Lisa Gay Hamilton, American actress
- 1966 –Tatjana Patitz, German supermodel
- 1967 –Debi Thomas, American figure skater
- 1971 –Cammi Granato, American ice hockey player
Who died on March 25?
- 1620 –Johannes Nucius, German composer
- 1738 –Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
- 1751 –Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676)
- 1914 –Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
- 1958 –Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
- 2000 –Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909)
- 2005 –Paul Henning, American TV/film producer and writer (b. 1911)
- 2008 –Thierry Gilardi, French football and rugby commentator (b. 1958)
- 2009 –Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian (b. 1929)
- 2010 –Pål Bang-Hansen, Norwegian film critic and television personality (b. 1937)
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