On this day: 25 April
Events, births and deaths on 25 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Virginia Roberts Giuffre
- Deaths · Yaroslav Moskalik
- Deaths · Wu Guixian
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Sunjong of the Korean Empire
- Births · Patricia Castell
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1077 · Deaths · Géza I of Hungary
- 1074 · Deaths · Herman I, Margrave of Baden
Events · 26
- 775(Julian date)Battle of Bagrevand — 775 battle
- 1464Battle of Hedgeley Moor — 25 April 1464 battle of the Wars of the Roses
- 1607Battle of Gibraltar — 1607 naval battle during the Eighty Years' War in which a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish fleet anchored at the Bay of Gibraltar
- 1707Battle of Almansa — 1707 battle
- 1792(Julian date)La Marseillaise — national anthem of France
- 1808Battle of Trangen — 1808 battle in Norway
- 1846Thornton Affair — battle in 1846 between the military forces of the United States and Mexico
- 1849Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal — Canadian historical event (1849)
- 1862Capture of New Orleans — 1862 event of the American Civil War
- 1864Battle of Marks' Mills — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 1898Spanish–American War — 1898 conflict between Spain and the United States
- 1915Gallipoli Campaign — 1915–1916 military campaign during World War I
- 1915Landing at Anzac Cove — battle in 1915 during the First World War
- 1916Irish War News — Irish Easter Rising publication
- 1932National War Memorial — War memorial in Wellington
- 1944United Negro College Fund — American philanthropic organization which provides scholarships to black students
- 1945United Nations Conference on International Organization — Founding conference of the United Nations
- 1974Carnation Revolution — 1974 revolution in Portugal
- 1980Dan-Air Flight 1008 — 1980 aviation accident
- 1982Operation Paraquet — 1982 British military operation to recapture the Island of South Georgia
- 1983The Jakarta Post — newspaper from Indonesia
- 2005Treaty of Accession 2005 — European treaty
- 2005Amagasaki derailment — 2005 rail accident in Amagasaki, Japan
- 2015April 2015 Nepal earthquake — magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal
- 20262026 White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting — shooting in Washington, D.C.
- 2026Killing of Sadio Camara — killing of Sadio Camara
Births · 60
- 1214(Julian date)Louis IX of France — King of France from 1226 to 1270 (1214–1270)
- 1228Conrad IV of Germany — King of Germany, Sicily and Jerusalem
- 1284(Julian date)Edward II of England — King of England from 1307 to 1327
- 1529(Julian date)Francesco Patrizi — Venetian philosopher and scientist (1529-1597)
- 1599(Julian date)Oliver Cromwell — English military and political leader (1599–1658)
- 1767Nicolas Oudinot — Marshal of France (1767-1847)
- 1823Abdülmecid I — 31th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1839–1861)
- 1843Princess Alice of the United Kingdom — Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877 to 1878
- 1849Felix Klein — German mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925)
- 1852Leopoldo Alas — Spanish author (1852–1901)
- 1862Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon — British Liberal statesman (1862-1933)
- 1874Guglielmo Marconi — Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
- 1897Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood — Member of the House of Windsor
- 1900Wolfgang Pauli — physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)
- 1900Gladwyn Jebb — acting Secretary-General of the United Nations (1900-1996)
- 1903Andrey Kolmogorov — Russian mathematician (1903–1987)
- 1908Edward R. Murrow — American broadcast journalist (1908–1965)
- 1917Ella Fitzgerald — American jazz singer (1917–1996)
- 1921Karel Appel — Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet (1921-2006)
- 1923Albert King — American blues musician (1923–1992)
- 1927Albert Uderzo — French comic book artist (1927–2020)
- 1928Cy Twombly — American painter, sculptor and photographer (1928–2011)
- 1930Paul Mazursky — American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor (1930-2014)
- 1932Nikolai Kardashev — Soviet and Russian astronomer
- 1932Lia Manoliu — Romanian athletics competitor (1932-1998)
Deaths · 60
- 1074Herman I, Margrave of Baden — German noble
- 1077(Julian date)Géza I of Hungary — King of Hungary from 1074 to 1077
- 1185(Julian date)Antoku — Emperor of Japan
- 1217(Julian date)Hermann I of Thuringia — Count Palatine of Saxony and Landgrave of Thuringia
- 1295(Julian date)Sancho IV of León and Castile — King of Castile and León from 1284 to 1295
- 1342(Julian date)Benedict XII — pope of the Catholic Church 1334–1342
- 1472(Julian date)Leon Battista Alberti — Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
- 1566(Julian date)Louise Labé — French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon (1524–1566)
- 1566(Julian date)Diane de Poitiers — French noblewoman and courtier (c.1499-1566)
- 1595Torquato Tasso — Italian poet (1544–1595)
- 1605Naresuan — King of Ayutthaya
- 1644Chongzhen Emperor — emperor of the Ming Dynasty
- 1690David Teniers the Younger — Flemish Baroque painter (1610–1690)
- 1744(Julian date)Anders Celsius — Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
- 1800William Cowper — English poet and hymnodist (1731–1800)
- 1840Siméon Denis Poisson — French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)
- 1875Trinle Gyatso — 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet (1857-1875)
- 1878Anna Sewell — English novelist
- 1892Henri Duveyrier — French explorer of the Sahara (1840–1892)
- 1906John Knowles Paine — American composer (1839–1906)
- 1911Emilio Salgari — Italian writer (1862–1911)
- 1926Sunjong of the Korean Empire — The 2nd emperor of the Korean Empire. (1874–1926)
- 1928Pyotr Wrangel — Russian army general of Baltic German origin (1878-1928)
- 1943Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko — Russian theatre director (1858-1943)
- 1944George Herriman — American cartoonist (1880-1944)
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