Eventos el March 25 40
Año 919
Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.
Año 1000
Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government.
Año 1199
Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
Año 1576
Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.
Año 1802
The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
Año 1807
The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
Año 1807
The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
Año 1811
Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
Año 1821
Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821 (Julian calendar).
Año 1865
American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
Año 1894
Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
Año 1911
In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
Año 1917
The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
Año 1924
On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
Año 1941
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
Año 1948
The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
Año 1957
United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
Año 1957
The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
Año 1965
Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
Año 1969
During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
Año 1971
Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistan Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians.
Año 1971
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
Año 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.
Año 1988
The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
Año 1995
WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
Año 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).
Año 2006
Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Año 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.