📜 This Day in History
March 25
- 708Constantine was selected as one of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy.
- 1655Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the largest natural satellite of Saturn.
1807The Slave Trade Act, which abolished the Atlantic slave trade in the British Empire, received royal assent.- 1917Following the overthrow of the Russian tsar Nicholas II, Georgia's bishops unilaterally restored the autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
- 1975King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot and killed by his nephew Faisal bin Musaid.
- 2008Invasion of Anjouan began as Comoros and African Union forces launched an assault to remove Mohamed Bacar from power in Anjouan.
