Quick glance of 25 March in the pages of History

March 25: Here are the major events that occurred on 25 March….

• 25 March, 421:  The city of Venice was founded.
• 25 March, 708:  Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
• 25 March, 1396: Robert the Bruce was crowned king of Scotland.
• 25 March, 1584: English explorer Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert’s patent to explore North America.
• 25 March, 1609: Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Company to find a passage to Asia.
• 25 March, 1753: Voltaire left the court of Frederik II of Prussia.
• 25 March, 1807: British Parliament abolishes slave trade throughout the British Empire; penalty of £120 per slave introduced for ship captains.
• 25 March, 1811: Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
• 25 March, 1889: 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town v England.
• 25 March, 1898: Swami Vivekananda initiates Margaret Noble (Sister Nivedita) into vow of Brahmacharya, first western woman received into Indian monastic order.
• 25 March, 1919: Woodrow Wilson’s dream of a League of Nations becomes a reality after the League Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace Conference.
• 25 March, 1948: Farooq Sheikh, an Indian film, theatre and television actor whose style of acting was noted for its effortlessness, was born on this day.
• 25 March, 1969: Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president.
• 25 March, 1969: First organ transplant between a live HIV donor and an HIV recipient with a kidney transplant in Boston, Massachusetts.