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On March 25, 410: The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending the Southern Yan dynasty.

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

Yan, known in historiography as the Southern Yan, was a dynastic state of China ruled by the Murong clan of the Xianbei during the era of Sixteen Kingdoms. Its founder Murong De was a son of Murong Huang and brother of Murong Jun and Murong Chui, and therefore was an imperial prince of both the Former Yan and Later Yan dynasties.

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Born on March 25

Ozan Kabak 2000– Turkish footballer (born 2000)
Mikey Madison 1999– American actress (born 1999)
Justine Dufour-Lapointe 1994– Canadian freestyle skier
Jacob Gagan 1993– Australian rugby league footballer (born 1993)
Sam Johnstone 1993– English footballer (born 1993)
Meg Lanning 1992– Australian cricketer (born 1992)
Scott Malone 1991– English footballer (born 1991)
Mehmet Ekici 1990– Turkish footballer
Alexander Esswein 1990– German footballer (born 1990)
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Aly Michalka 1989– American actress and singer (born 1989)
Scott Sinclair 1989– English footballer (born 1989)
Big Sean 1988– American rapper (born 1988)
Ryan Lewis 1988– American musician (born 1988)
Mitchell Watt 1988– Australian track and field athlete
Arthur Zeiler 1988– Rugby player
Jacob Bagersted 1987– Danish handballer (born 1987)
Victor Obinna 1987– Nigerian footballer (born 1987)
Nobunari Oda 1987– Japanese figure skater (born 1987)

People

Died on March 25

Dash Crofts American musician (1938–2026)
Alexander Kluge German author, film director and public intellectual (1932–2026)
Tapani Kansa Finnish singer (1949–2025)
Terry Manning American musician and recording engineer (1947–2025)
Taylor Hawkins American drummer (1972–2022)
Beverly Cleary American writer (1916–2021)
Floyd Cardoz Indian-American chef (1960–2020)
Barrie Hole Welsh footballer (1942–2019)
Cuthbert Sebastian British Colonial governor
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Shannon Bolin American actress and singer (1917–2016)
George Fischbeck American weather presenter (1922–2015)
Lorna Arnold British military historian (1915–2014)
Hank Lauricella American politician
Jon Lord Canadian politician
Sonny Ruberto American baseball player (1946–2014)
Jonathan Schell American author and advocate against nuclear weapons (1943–2014)
Ralph Wilson American football executive (1918–2014)
Léonce Bernard Canadian politician

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Every March 25 on record

  1. 410 The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending the Southern Yan dynasty.

    Xianbei-led Chinese dynastic state (398–410)

    Yan, known in historiography as the Southern Yan, was a dynastic state of China ruled by the Murong clan of the Xianbei during the era of Sixteen Kingdoms. Its founder Murong De was a son of Murong Huang and brother of Murong Jun and Murong Chui, and therefore was an imperial prince of both the Former Yan and Later Yan dynasties.

  2. 421 Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.

    City in Veneto, Italy

    Venice is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the region of Veneto. It is built on a group of 126 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 472 bridges.

  3. 708 Election of Pope Constantine following the death of Pope Sisinnius. He would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until 1967.

    Head of the Catholic Church from 708 to 715

    Pope Constantine was the bishop of Rome from 25 March 708 to his death on 9 April 715. One of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy, the defining moment of his pontificate was his 710/711 visit to Constantinople, where he compromised with Justinian II on the Trullan canons of the Quinisext Council. The city's next papal visit occurred in 1967.

  4. 717 Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter a monastery, allowing Leo III to take the throne and begin the Isaurian dynasty.

    Byzantine emperor from 715 to 717

    Theodosius III was the Byzantine emperor from c. May 715 to 25 March 717. Before rising to power and seizing the throne of the Byzantine Empire, he was a tax collector in Adramyttium.

  5. 919 Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.

    Byzantine emperor from 920 to 944

    Romanos I Lakapenos or Lekapenos, Latinized as Romanus I Lacapenus or Romanus I Lecapenus, was Byzantine emperor from 920 until his deposition in 944, serving as regent for and senior co-ruler of the young Constantine VII.

  6. 1000 Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government.
  7. 1065 The Great German Pilgrimage is attacked on Good Friday by Beduin bandits, suffering heavy losses.
  8. 1221 Coronation of Robert of Courtenay as Emperor of the Latin Empire.
  9. 1306 Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).
  10. 1409 The Council of Pisa convenes, in an attempt to heal the Western Schism.
  11. 1410 The Yongle Emperor of Ming China launches the first of his military campaigns against the Mongols, resulting in the fall of the Mongol khan Bunyashiri.
  12. 1519 Hernán Cortés, entering province of Tabasco, defeats Tabascan Indians.
  13. 1576 Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.
  14. 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
  15. 1655 Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
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  1. 1708 A French fleet anchors nears Fife Ness as part of the planned French invasion of Britain.
  2. 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.
  3. 1770 Daskalogiannis leads the people of Sfakia in the first Greek uprising against the Ottoman rule
  4. 1776 American Revolutionary War: American Patriots conduct a Raid on Tybee Island, primarily seeking to capture runaway slaves who sought refuge with British forces stationed there.
  5. 1802 The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
  6. 1807 The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
  7. 1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
  8. 1821 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).
  9. 1845 New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army.
  10. 1865 American Civil War: In Virginia during the Siege of Petersburg, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union before being repulsed.
  11. 1878 Last issue of the Bulletin de la Fédération jurassienne, the first or one of the first anarchist newspapers.
  12. 1894 Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
  13. 1905 The Greek football club P.A.E. G.S. Diagoras is founded in the city of Rhodes.
  14. 1911 In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
  15. 1911 Andrey Yushchinsky is murdered in Kiev, leading to the Beilis affair.

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