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, 1,742,860,800 seconds 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
- 1199 –Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
- 1306 –Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland.
- 1584 –Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
- 1811 –Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
- 1917 –The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
- 1957 –The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
- 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.
- 2006 –Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
Who were born on March 25?
- 1297 –Arnošt of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (d. 1364)
- 1886 –Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
- 1946 –Stephen Hunter, American author
- 1965 –Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress
- 1967 –Matthew Barney, American media artist
- 1971 –Cammi Granato, American ice hockey player
- 1974 –Lark Voorhies, American actress
- 1976 –Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
- 1982 –Álvaro Saborío, Costa Rican footballer
- 1988 –Erik Knudsen, Canadian actor
Who died on March 25?
- 752 –Pope-elect Stephen, Italian priest and elected successor to Pope Zachary
- 1931 –Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, American civil rights activist (b. 1862)
- 1951 –Eddie Collins, American baseball player (b. 1887)
- 1992 –Nancy Walker, American actress (b. 1922)
- 1995 –Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
- 1999 –Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936)
- 2002 –Kenneth Wolstenholme, English football commentator (b. 1920)
- 2006 –Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
- 2007 –Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951)
- 2009 –Giovanni Parisi, Italian boxer (b. 1967)
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