On this day: 25 May
Events, births and deaths on 25 May. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Yang Jiang
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Symon Petliura
- Births · Bill Sharman
- Births · Claude Akins
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1085 · Deaths · Gregory VII
- 992 · Deaths · Mieszko I
- 986 · Deaths · Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
Events · 21
- 1763Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler — Norway's first newspaper
- 1782Crawford expedition — 1782 campaign in the American Revolutionary War
- 1787Constitutional Convention — event taking place from May 25 to September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that led to the creation of the United States Constitution
- 1798Battle of Carlow — battle of the Irish Rebellion of 1798
- 1809Chuquisaca Revolution — popular uprising in Chuquisaca in favor of self-government, King Ferdinand VII and the Empire of Spain
- 1810May Revolution — 1810 revolution in Buenos Aires
- 1810Primera Junta y messi — first autonomous government of Argentina
- 1833Chilean Constitution of 1833 — fundamental law of Chile from 1833 to 1925
- 1895Republic of Formosa — republic created to resist Japanese occupation
- 1944Raid on Drvar — 1944 military operation against Yugoslav Partisans
- 1953Upshot-Knothole Grable — 1953 U.S. test of a nuclear artillery weapon
- 1968Gateway Arch — monument in St. Louis, Missouri
- 1979American Airlines Flight 191 — 1979 aviation accident in Chicago, Illinois, United States
- 1979disappearance of Etan Patz — American boy who disappeared in 1979
- 1986Hands Across America — 1986 American fundraising event
- 2002China Airlines Flight 611 — 2002 aviation accident in Taiwan
- 20092009 North Korean nuclear test — 2009 nuclear detonation by North Korea
- 2012Houla massacre — attack that took place on May 25, 2012 in Syria
- 20132013 Naxal attack in Darbha valley — terrorist incident in India
- 2018Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland — amendment to the constitution of Ireland repealing the abortion ban in 2018
- 2020murder of George Floyd — 2020 police murder of a black man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Births · 60
- 1048(Julian date)Emperor Shenzong of Song — 6th emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty
- 1320(Julian date)Toghon Temür — Yuan and Northern Yuan emperor from 1333 to 1370
- 1550(Julian date)Camillus de Lellis — Italian priest, nurse and saint
- 1713John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute — British nobleman, art collector, and Prime Minister of Great Britain (1713-1792)
- 1791Minh Mạng — Vietnamese emperor (1791–1841)
- 1803Ralph Waldo Emerson — American philosopher (1803–1882)
- 1803Edward Bulwer-Lytton — British statesman and author (1803–1873)
- 1818Jacob Burckhardt — Swiss historian (1818–1897)
- 1846Naim Frashëri — Albanian poet, writer and activist (1846–1900)
- 1865Pieter Zeeman — Dutch physicist (1865–1943)
- 1865John Mott — American Methodist and founder of the YMCA (1865–1955)
- 1865Friedrich August III of Saxony — king of Saxony (1865-1932)
- 1887Padre Pio — Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic
- 1889(Julian date)Igor Sikorsky — American aviation pioneer from Russian Empire (1889–1972)
- 1889Günther Lütjens — German admiral (1889–1941)
- 1907U Nu — Burmese nationalist and political figure (1907-1995)
- 1908Theodore Roethke — American poet (1907-1963)
- 1921Jack Steinberger — German-American physicist, Nobel laureate (1921-2020)
- 1922Enrico Berlinguer — Italian politician (1922–1984)
- 1925Jeanne Crain — American actress (1925–2003)
- 1925Rosario Castellanos — Mexican writer (1925-1974)
- 1927Robert Ludlum — American novelist (1927–2001)
- 1929Beverly Sills — American operatic soprano (1929-2007)
- 1930Sonia Rykiel — French fashion designer (1930-2016)
- 1931Georgy Grechko — Soviet cosmonaut (1931–2017)
Deaths · 60
- 709(Julian date)Aldhelm — abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, bishop of Sherborne, Latin poet
- 986(Julian date)Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi — Persian astronomer (903-986)
- 992(Julian date)Mieszko I — Duke of Poland
- 1085(Julian date)Gregory VII — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1073 to 1085
- 1261(Julian date)Alexander IV — pope of the Catholic Church from 1254 to 1261
- 1555(Julian date)Henri II of Navarre — king of Navarre
- 1555(Julian date)Gemma Frisius — Frisian physician, mathematician and cartographer (1508–1555)
- 1558(Julian date)Elisabeth of Brandenburg — duchess consort of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen (1510-1558)
- 1607Magdalena de Pazzi — Italian Carmelite mystic and saint (1566-1607)
- 1681Pedro Calderón de la Barca — Spanish dramatist (1600-1681)
- 1786Pedro III of Portugal — king of Portugal
- 1789Anders Dahl — Swedish botanist (1751-1789)
- 1805William Paley — Christian apologist, natural theologian, utilitarian; (1743-1805)
- 1877Richard Hawes — United States Representative; Second Confederate governor of Kentucky (1797-1877)
- 1895Ahmet Cevdet Pasha — Ottoman statesman (1822-1895)
- 1899Rosa Bonheur — French artist (1822-1899)
- 1919Madam C. J. Walker — American entrepreneur (1867-1919)
- 1919Eliza Pollock — American archer (1840–1919)
- 1924Lyubov Popova — Russian artist (1889-1924)
- 1926Symon Petliura — Ukrainian military leader (1879–1926)
- 1930Randall Davidson — Scottish Archbishop of Canterbury (1848-1930)
- 1934Gustav Holst — British composer (1874–1934)
- 1937Henry Ossawa Tanner — African-American painter (1859–1937)
- 1939Frank Watson Dyson — English astronomer and Astronomer Royal (1868–1939)
- 1942Emanuel Feuermann — Austrian musician (1902-1942)
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