By Day: Historical Events on March 25th

Roman Emperor Trajan dies, and Hadrian becomes Emperor.

King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway is killed in the Battle of Svolder.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spaniard Juan Ponce de León sights Florida.

Death of Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of Russia.

Voltaire's "Philosophical Letters" is banned in Paris.

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

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. More

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” the dream and possibility for a decent America”. More