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The following events took place on February 25. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 44 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 138

  The Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
• 493

  Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theoderic the Great.
• 628

  Khosrau II is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
• 1336

  Four thousand defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
• 1631

  François de Bassompierre, a French courtier, is arrested on Richelieu’s orders.
• 1797

  Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000–1500 soldiers surrender after the Last invasion of Britain.
• 1821

  Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis issues a proclamation at Iași, announcing that he had “the support of a great power” (i.e. Russia).
• 1831

  Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.
• 1836

  Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
• 1843

  Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet Affair (1843).
• 1848

  Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc‘s motion, guarantees workers’rights.
• 1856

  A Peace conference opens in Paris after the Crimean War.
• 1866

  Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
• 1870

  Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
• 1875

  Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi’s regency.
• 1901

  J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
• 1912

  Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
• 1916

  World War I: The Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
• 1919

  Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
• 1921

  Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
• 1928

  Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.
• 1932

  Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
• 1933

  The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
• 1941

  February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
• 1945

  World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
• 1947

  The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
• 1948

  The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
• 1951

  The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1954

  Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
• 1956

  In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.

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