Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 25
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This is a list of selected March 25 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.March 25: Mawlid in Shi'a Islam (2008); Struggle for Human Rights Day in Slovakia; Independence Day in Greece
- 1306 – Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scotland at Scone near Perth.
- 1634 – Lord Baltimore, his younger brother Leonard Calvert, and a group of Catholic settlers founded the English colony of Maryland.
- 1655 – Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens (pictured) discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of the planet Saturn.
- 1802 – France and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Amiens, temporarily ending the hostilities between the two during the French Revolutionary Wars.
- 1807 – The Slave Trade Act became law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
- 1918 – The Belarusian People's Republic was established during World War I, when Belarus was occupied by the German Empire according to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
