On this day: 25 March

The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending the Southern Yan dynasty.

Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.

Constantine was selected as one of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy.

Byzantine emperor Theodosius III abdicated in favour of Leo the Isaurian after he captured Theodosius's son.

Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.

The Great German Pilgrimage is attacked on Good Friday by Beduin bandits, suffering heavy losses.

Coronation of Robert of Courtenay as Emperor of the Latin Empire.

The Council of Pisa convenes, in an attempt to heal the Western Schism.

The Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty launched the first of his military campaigns against the Mongols, resulting in the fall of the Mongol khan Bunyashiri.

Hernán Cortés, entering province of Tabasco, defeats Tabascan Indians.

Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of Saturn.

Bach's chorale cantata Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern was first performed on the Feast of the Annunciation, which coincided that year with Palm Sunday.

Daskalogiannis leads the people of Sfakia in the first Greek uprising against the Ottoman rule

War of the Second Coalition: In their second battle in seven days, the French Army of the Danube and Habsburg forces battled for control of the Hegau region.

The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.

Greek War of Independence: Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821 (Julian calendar).

New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army.

American Civil War: In Virginia during the Siege of Petersburg, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union before being repulsed.

Last issue of the Bulletin de la Fédération jurassienne, the first or one of the first anarchist newspapers.

Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.

The Greek football club P.A.E. G.S. Diagoras is founded in the city of Rhodes.

The Greek multi-sport club Aris Thessaloniki is founded in Thessaloniki.

Following the overthrow of the Russian tsar Nicholas II, Georgia's bishops unilaterally restored the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church.

The Belarusian People's Republic is established.

On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is unveiled in Athens.

Enrico Fermi published his discovery of neutron-induced radioactivity, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.

Meteorologists at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, United States, issued the world's first tornado forecast after noticing conditions similar to another tornado that had struck five days earlier.

The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.

United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.

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).

Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their four-day 50-mile (80 km) march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.

The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.

The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

American computer programmer Ward Cunningham established the first wiki site, the WikiWikiWeb.

Invasion of Anjouan began as Comoros and African Union forces launched an assault to remove Mohamed Bacar from power in Anjouan.