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25 March 1252Holy Roman Empire, Germany [political events]William, Count of Holland, is again elected Holy Roman Emperor. Pope Innocent IV directs the Germans to accept him, following the death of the previous papal candidate, Henry Raspe of Thuringia, in 1247.
25 March 1420Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire [wars]In the first battle of the Hussite Wars, the extremist antipapal Taborites, led by John Žiška, defeat the Bohemian Catholics at Sudomer, Bohemia.
25 March 1815Austrian Empire, UK, Prussia, Russian Empire, France, Europe [Napoleonic Wars (1803–15)]Austria, Britain, Prussia, and Russia form the Fifth Coalition against Napoleon I to maintain the established order in Europe. Each agrees to send 150,000 men into the field.
25 March 1918 [births and deaths]Claude Debussy, French composer, dies in Paris, France (55).
25 March 1924Greece [political events]Greece is proclaimed a republic (confirmed by plebiscite on 13 April; Admiral Pavlos Koundouriotis becomes president).
25 March 1936Germany [telephone services]In Germany, the first public videophone service, to be used by Aryans only, starts in Berlin and Leipzig.
25 March 1957Europe [diplomacy]Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (the ‘Six’) sign the Treaty of Rome establishing the European Economic Community (EEC) or ‘Common Market’, and a second Rome Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Authority or ‘Euratom’ (to take effect from 1 January 1958).
25 March 1987Belgium [banking and finance]The Belgian government mints ECU coins: these are legal tender in Belgium.
25 March 1996Europe, UK [law and government]The European Union (EU) bans the export of British beef abroad following anxiety over the potential for transmission of the BSE infection to humans as CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease).
25 March 1999Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Russia, China [Balkan conflicts (c. 1991–2000)]Russia and China denounce the NATO air strikes against Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, demanding a political rather than military solution to the conflict in Kosovo.


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