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776 BCE, March 25

The first recorded Olympic Games in ancient Greece take place in Olympia.

117 CE, March 25

Roman Emperor Trajan dies, and Hadrian becomes Emperor.

1001 CE, March 25

Emperor Otto III of the Holy Roman Empire dies unexpectedly at the age of 22.

1016 CE, March 25

Æthelred the Unready, King of England, dies and is succeeded by his son Edmund Ironside.

1100 CE, March 25

Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, is born in Cheapside, London. December 21, 1118

1120 CE, March 25

The Council of Nablus is convened by King Baldwin II of Jerusalem.

1160 CE, March 25

Victor IV is elected as Antipope by the Holy Roman Empire.

1180 CE, March 25

Murasaki Shikibu, author of "The Tale of Genji," dies in Japan.

1411 CE, March 25

The Battle of Harlaw takes place in Scotland between Highlanders and Lowlanders.

1423 CE, March 25

1423, March 25 - The Treaty of Amiens is signed between England and France, temporarily ending hostilities during the Hundred Years' War.

1507 CE, March 25

The world map containing the name "America," by Martin Waldseemüller, is published.

1513 CE, March 25

Spaniard Juan Ponce de León sights Florida.

1807 CE, March 25

The British Parliament abolishes the slave trade throughout the British Empire; establishing a penalty of £120 per slave for ship captains violating the law. However, slaves in the colonies (excluding areas ruled by the East India Company) were not freed until 1838 – and only after slave-owners, rather than the slaves themselves, received compensation. More

1811 CE, March 25

Percy Bysshe Shelley and a fellow student Thomas Jefferson Hogg are s expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing "The Necessity of Atheism and for their refusal to disavow authorship and responsibility for distribution led to their expulsion from the university.

1957 CE, March 25

The EEC is created by the signing of the Treaties of Rome. France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg . building on the success of the Coal and Steel Treaty, expand their cooperation to other economic sectors by signing two treaties, creating the European Economic Community (EEC), and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom). These bodies come into being on January 1, 1958. It was one of the first steps to the eventual creation of the European Union (EU). More

1967 CE, March 25

Martin Luther King Jr. leads his first anti-war march in Chicago. Reinforcing the connection between war abroad and injustice at home: “The bombs in Vietnam explode at home—they destroy the dream and possibility for a decent America”. More