What happened on 25 March?

9 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1807 Britain abolishes the slave trade Slave Trade Act ends British participation in the transatlantic slave trade; Royal Navy patrols the West African coast.
2. 1957 Treaty of Rome / European Economic Community Six countries form the EEC; the predecessor of the European Union.
3. 1902 Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles Most famous Sherlock Holmes novel.
4. 1821 Greece rises against the Ottomans After Ypsilantis's doomed thrust across the Pruth, the Peloponnese explodes: within weeks the Greek flag flies over the Morea and the Ottoman garrisons are besieged. The 25th of Ma
5. 1954 Audrey Hepburn wins Best Actress for Roman Holiday Hepburn wins the Academy Award for her debut leading role in Roman Holiday.
6. 1942 Born: Aretha Franklin American singer; the Queen of Soul.
7. 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire 146 garment workers, mostly young immigrant women, die in a New York sweatshop fire, spurring US labour-safety reform.
8. 1802 Treaty of Amiens Brief peace between France and Britain; collapsed within fourteen months.
9. 1458 The Love Day procession Henry VI stages a public reconciliation: the feuding lords process to St Paul's hand in hand, Yorkists paired with the sons of the men they killed at St Albans, the queen walking w