October 25 Historical Events
The following events took place on October 25. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 36 events. Showing 1 - 30.
- 473Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1147Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
- 1147Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon
- 1415Hundred Years’ War: nowrap Henry V of England and his lightly armoured infantry and archers defeat the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt on Saint Crispin’s Day.
- 1616Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
- 1712coronation de Louis XV of France
- 1747British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
- 1760George III becomes King of Great Britain.
- 1812War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
- 1822Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
- 1828St Katharine Docks open in London.
- 1854The Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
- 1861The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
- 1900The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
- 1917Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia. The date refers to the Julian Calendar date, and corresponds with November 7 in the Gregorian calendar.
- 1920After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
- 1924The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail. The Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives’ landslide election win.
- 1927The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
- 1938The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces swing music as “a degenerated musical system… turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people”, warning that it leads down a “primrose path to hell”. His warning is widely ignored.
- 1940Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
- 1944Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
- 1944The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship’s own malfunctioning torpedo.
- 1944The Romanian city of Carei is liberated by Romanian and Soviet forces from Nazi-Hungarian occupation.
- 1944World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf: The largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets. Afterward is the first Kamikaze attack of the war.
- 1945The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan’s surrender to the Allies.
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
- 1962Uganda joins the United Nations.
- 1962Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
- 1971The United Nations seats the People’s Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (see political status of Taiwan and China and the United Nations)
- 1977Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.
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