March 25 is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 281 days remain until the end of the year. In Annunciation Style dating, the year begins on March 25. Until 1752, March 25 was the official date of the beginning of the year in England and its dominions.
1000 – Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government.
1065 – The Great German Pilgrimage is attacked on Good Friday by Bedouin bandits, suffering heavy losses 1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).
1519 – Hernán Cortés, entering province of Tabasco, defeats Tabascan Indians.
1576 – Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.
1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1776 – American Revolutionary War – American Patriots conduct a Raid on Tybee Island, primarily seeking to capture runaway slaves who sought refuge with British forces stationed there. 1802 – The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a 'Definitive Treaty of Peace' between France and the United Kingdom.
1807 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger- carrying railway in the world.
1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1865 – American Civil War: In Virginia during the Siege of Petersburg, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
1878 – Last issue of the Bulletin de la Fédération jurassienne, the first or one of the first anarchist newspapers.
1894 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
1917 – The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
1918 – The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
1919 – The Tetiev pogrom occurs in Ukraine, becoming the prototype of mass murder during the Holocaust 1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1947 – An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
1949 – More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem 'Howl' on obscenity grounds.
1957 – The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
1959 – Chain Island is sold by the State of California to Russell Gallaway III, a Sacramento businessman who plans to use it as a 'hunting and fishing retreat', for $5,258.20 ($58,072 in 2025) 1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1971 – The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
1979 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1988 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
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).
2006 – Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.