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March 25 is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 281 days remain until the end of the year. Until 1752 it was the official date of the beginning of the year in England (in Julian calendar ).
It is celebrated on 25 March; however, if 25 March falls either in Holy Week or in Easter Week, the feast is postponed to the Monday after the Second Sunday of Easter. Other names for the feast include the Solemnity of the Annunciation, Lady Day, Feast of the Incarnation (Festum incarnationis), and Conceptio Christi (Christ's Conception).
In England, Lady Day was New Year's Day (i.e., the new year began on 25 March) from 1155 [6] until 1752, when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Great Britain and its Empire and with it the first of January as the official start of the year in England, Wales and Ireland. [6] (Scotland changed its new year's day to 1 January in 1600, but ...
The United Nations slavery memorial. International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is a United Nations (UN) international observance designated in 2007 to be marked on 25 March every year.
The Battle of Fort Stedman, also known as the Battle of Hare's Hill, was fought on March 25, 1865, during the final weeks of the American Civil War.The Union Army fortification in the siege lines around Petersburg, Virginia, was attacked in a pre-dawn Confederate assault by troops led by Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon.
American Chocolate Week, National Anonymous Giving Week - March 19 to 25: National Introverts Week - March 20 to 26. National Tsunami Awareness Week - March 24 to 30. Month-Long Observances.
The 41st annual St. Patrick's Day Parade kicks off on Commercial Street at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 16. ... 25+ March activities happening in Springfield, including the St. Patrick's Day Parade.
March 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - March 26. All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 7 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. [note 1] For March 25th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 12.