March 25March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). There are 281 days remaining. Events 708 Constantine is consecrated Pope. 1306 Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scotland. 1409 The Council of Pisa opens. 1634 The first s - NovalisNovalis was the pseudonym of Friedrich Leopold, Freiherr von Hardenberg ( May 2, 1772 March 25, 1801), a German poet and novelist. The name was taken, according to family records, from an ancestral estate. He was born on his father's estate at Oberwieders, German poet