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First Scotland v Wales football international, Scotland won 4-0
First Scotland v Wales football international, Scotland won 4-0 The 1876 association football match between the national teams representing Scotland and Wales was the first game played by the Welsh side. It took place on 25 March 1876 at Hamilton Crescent, Partick, the home ground of the West of Scotland Cricket Club. The match was also the first time that Scotland had played against a side other than England. …

Pope Pius IX issues an encyclical called On aid for Ireland
Pope Pius IX issues an encyclical called On aid for Ireland Pius donated money to Ireland during the Great Famine. In 1847 he addressed the suffering Irish people in the encyclical Praedecessores nostros. …

Michael Davitt, known universally as The Father of the Land League, is born in Straid, Co. Mayo Michael Davitt (25 March 1846 – 30 May 1906) was an Irish republican activist for a variety of causes, especially Home Rule and land reform. Following an eviction when he was four years old, Davitt’s family migrated to England. …

Myles Keogh in Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow, born
Myles Keogh in Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow, born Myles Walter Keogh (25 March 1840 – 25 June 1876) was an Irish soldier. He served in the armies of the Papal States during the war for Italian unification in 1860, and was recruited into the Union Army during the American Civil War, serving as a cavalry officer, particularly under Brig. Gen. John Buford during the Gettysburg Campaign and the three-day Battle of Gettysburg. …

Arthur Kavanagh, politician and progressive landlord, is born in Borris, Co. Carlow
Arthur Kavanagh, politician and progressive landlord, is born in Borris, Co. Carlow Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh (25 March 1831 – 25 December 1889) was an Irish politician. His middle name is spelled MacMorrough in some contemporaneous sources. …

Commercial Bank of Scotland, foundeded in Edinburgh
Commercial Bank of Scotland, foundeded in Edinburgh The Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. was a Scottish commercial bank. It was founded in Edinburgh in 1810, and obtained a royal charter in 1831. It grew substantially through the 19th and early 20th centuries, until 1958, when it merged with the National Bank of Scotland to become the National Commercial Bank of Scotland. Ten years later the National Commercial Bank merged with the Royal Bank of Scotland. …

Irish harpist and composer, Turlough O'Carolan, dies at Alderford House, Co Roscommon
Irish harpist and composer, Turlough O'Carolan, dies at Alderford House, Co Roscommon Turlough O’Carolan (1670 – 25 March 1738) was a blind Celtic harper, composer and singer in Ireland whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition. …

Birth of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden and politician
Birth of James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden and politician James Agar, 1st Viscount Clifden (25 March 1734 – 1 January 1789), was an Irish peer and politician and held the office of one of the joint Postmasters General of Ireland. …

A shower of hailstones, with stones as large as four inches in circumference, is reported in Castletown, Co. Offaly
A shower of hailstones, with stones as large as four inches in circumference, is reported in Castletown, Co. Offaly Hailstones four inches (10 cm) in diameter fall at Castletown, south of Ballycumber. …

Coronation of King James II of Scotland.
Coronation of King James II of Scotland. James II of Scotland was crowned on March 25, 1437. This event took place at the Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, following the assassination of his father, James I of Scotland, in February 1437. James II was only six years old at the time of his coronation, leading to a period of regency during his early reign. …