Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 25

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 * 708 – Constantine was selected as one of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy.
 * 717 – Byzantine emperor Theodosius III abdicated in favour of Leo the Isaurian after he captured Theodosius's son.
 * 1410 – The Yongle Emperor (pictured) of the Ming dynasty launched the first of his military campaigns against the Mongols, resulting in the fall of the Mongol khan Bunyashiri.
 * 1655 – Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of Saturn.
 * 1708 – Jacobite risings: A French fleet anchored near Fife Ness as part of a planned French invasion of Britain.
 * 1725 Bach's chorale cantata Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, is first performed on the Feast of the Annunciation, coinciding with Palm Sunday.
 * 1807 – The Slave Trade Act, which abolished the Atlantic slave trade in the British Empire, received royal assent.
 * 1903 – The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition anchored in the South Orkney Islands with the intention of establishing the first weather station in Antarctic territory.
 * 1911 – The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (pictured) in New York City killed 146 sweatshop workers, many of whom could not escape because the doors to the stairwells and exits had been locked.
 * 1948 – 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.
 * 1975 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot and killed by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid.


 * Born/died: | Sophie Blanchard |b|1778|Novalis |d|1801| José de Espronceda |b|1808| Selim Sırrı Tarcan |b|1874| Frances Glessner Lee |b|1878|  Alexandra of Yugoslavia |b|1921| Harriet Backer |d|1932| Elton John |b|1947| Lorna Arnold |d|2014

March 25: Bangladesh Genocide Remembrance Day


 * 1458 – Wars of the Roses: A formal reconciliation ceremony between the Lancastrians and Yorkists led to a brief period of peace.
 * 1799 – 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.
 * 1934 – Enrico Fermi (pictured) published his discovery of neutron-induced radioactivity, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
 * 1949 – The Soviet Union began mass deportations of more than 90,000 "undesirable" people from the Baltic states to Siberia.