March 25 - Holidays and Observances

Holidays and Observances

• Anniversary of the Arengo and the Feast of the Militants (San Marino)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Alfwold
  • Barontius and Desiderius
  • Dismas, the "Good Thief"
  • Humbert of Maroilles
  • Quirinus of Tegernsee
  • March 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest day on which Seward's Day can fall, while March 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Monday in March. (Alaska)
• In the Julian calendar, Birkat Hachama is recited every 28 years on this day
• Freedom Day (Belarus)
• Hilaria (Roman Empire)
• Revolution Day in Greece, celebrating the symbolic outbreak of the War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821.
• Maryland Day (Maryland)
• Mother's Day (Slovenia)
• Struggle for Human Rights Day (Slovakia)
• Tolkien Reading Day
• The Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christianity), and its related observances (some churches move the observance if March 25 falls on a Sunday or during Holy Week):
  • Historic start of the new year (Lady Day) in England, Wales, Ireland, and the future United States until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752. (The year 1751 began on 25 March; the year 1752 began on 1 January.) It is one of the four Quarter days in Ireland and England.
• Vårfrudagen or Våffeldagen, "Waffle Day" (Sweden)