On this day: 25 July
Events, births and deaths on 25 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Tim LaHaye
100 years ago1926
- Births · Beatriz Segall
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1109 · Births · Afonso I of Portugal
- 1016 · Births · Casimir I the Restorer
- 975 · Births · Thietmar of Merseburg
Events · 28
- 1139(Julian date)Kingdom of Portugal — kingdom in Southwestern Europe (1139–1910)
- 1139Battle of Ourique — 1139 battle in Portugal
- 1139(Julian date)Treaty of Mignano — 1139 peace treaty
- 1261(Julian date)Reconquest of Constantinople — 1261 battle between the Latin and Nicaean Empires
- 1278(Julian date)Battle of Algeciras — 1278 naval battle of the Reconquista
- 1467(Julian date)Battle of Molinella — 1467 battle
- 1567(Julian date)Caracas — capital and largest city of Venezuela
- 16681668 Shandong earthquake — 1668 magnitude 8.5 earthquake during the rule of the Qing dynasty in Shandong Province, China
- 1722Father Rale's War — war
- 1799First Battle of Abukir — 1799 first battle of the French campaign in Egypt and Syria to be fought at Abu Qir
- 1814Battle of Lundy's Lane — 1814 battle of the War of 1812
- 1868Wyoming Territory — territory of the USA between 1868-1890
- 1894Battle of Pungdo — 1894 battle
- 1915Battle of Nasiriyah — 1915 battle in WWI
- 1943Fall of the Fascist regime in Italy — 1943 deposition of Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini
- 1944Operation Spring — 1944 military operation
- 1978Cerro Maravilla murders — Murder of two young Puerto Rican pro-independence activists
- 1983
- 19921992 Summer Olympics — Games of the XXV Olympiad in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- 1993Operation Accountability — fought between Israel and Hezbollah from July 25 to July 31, 1993
- 1993Saint James Church massacre — massacre perpetrated on St James Church, Cape Town, South Africa
- 19951995 Paris Metro bombings — series of terrorist bombings in France in 1995
- 19961996 Burundian coup d'état — 1996 military coup against Burundian President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya
- 1998Wakayama curry-poisoning incident — Mass murder in Wakayama, Japan in July 1998
- 2000Air France Flight 4590 — 2000 plane crash of Concorde in Paris
- 2001Phoolan Devi — Indian bandit, politician (1963-2001)
- 2010
- 20182018 Suwayda attacks — series of suicide bombings
Births · 60
- 975(Julian date)Thietmar of Merseburg — German bishop and historian (975–1018)
- 1016(Julian date)Casimir I the Restorer — Polish king (1016-1058)
- 1109(Julian date)Afonso I of Portugal — king of Portugal from 1139 to 1185
- 1336Albert I, Duke of Bavaria — Count of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland (1336-1404)
- 1394(Julian date)James I of Scotland — King of Scots from 1406 to 1437
- 1562(Julian date)Katō Kiyomasa — 16th-century Japanese daimyo (1562-1611)
- 1573
- 1750Henry Knox — American general and Secretary of War (1750–1806)
- 1775Anna Harrison — First Lady of the United States from 1841 to 1841
- 1831Cheoljong of Joseon — King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history (1831-1864)
- 1844Thomas Eakins — American painter (1844–1916)
- 1847Paul Langerhans — German pathologist (1847–1888)
- 1848Arthur Balfour — British Prime Minister, Conservative politician, and statesman (1848-1930)
- 1852Gojong of the Korean Empire — 26th king of Joseon, first emperor of the Korean Empire (1852–1919)
- 1875Jim Corbett — British hunter, tracker, naturalist and author (1875-1955)
- 1876Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of the Belgians — Queen of the Belgians from 1909 to 1934 (1876–1965)
- 1883Alfredo Casella — Italian composer, pianist and conductor (1883-1947)
- 1894Gavrilo Princip — Bosnian assassin (1894–1918)
- 1894Walter Brennan — American actor (1894–1974)
- 1902Eric Hoffer — American philosopher (1902–1983)
- 1905Elias Canetti — Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)
- 1914Woody Strode — American athlete and actor (1914–1994)
- 1920Rosalind Franklin — British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
- 1922John B. Goodenough — American materials scientist (1922–2023)
- 1923Estelle Getty — American actress (1923–2008)
Deaths · 60
- 306(Julian date)Constantius Chlorus — Roman emperor (250-306)
- 1011(Julian date)Ichijō — Emperor of Japan
- 1409(Julian date)Martin I of Sicily — King of Sicily and Infante and Crown prince of Aragon
- 1471(Julian date)Thomas à Kempis — German canon regular
- 1492(Julian date)Innocent VIII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1484 to 1492
- 1564Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor — emperador del SIR de 1556 a 1564 (1503-1564)
- 1572(Julian date)Isaac Luria — Ottoman rabbi in Egypt and Palestine
- 1616Andreas Libavius — German physician and writer (ca 1560-1616)
- 1694Hishikawa Moronobu — Japanese painter and printmaker (1618-1694)
- 1710Gottfried Kirch — German astronomer
- 1790Johann Bernhard Basedow — German philosopher (1724–1790)
- 1790William Livingston — American politician (1723–1790)
- 1794André Chénier — French poet
- 1834Samuel Taylor Coleridge — English poet, literary critic and philosopher (1772–1834)
- 1842Dominique Jean Larrey — French surgeon in Napoleon's army and an important innovator in battlefield medicine (1766-1842)
- 1843Charles Macintosh — British chemist (1766–1843)
- 1861Jonas Furrer — Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1805-1861)
- 1865James Barry — 19th-century military surgeon in the British Army
- 1887John Taylor — British-born American religious leader and third president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1808–1887)
- 1934Nestor Makhno — Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (1888–1934)
- 1934Engelbert Dollfuss — Austrian Christian Social and Patriotic Front statesman (1892-1934)
- 1934François Coty — French perfumer, businessman, newspaper publisher, politician and patron of the arts (1874-1934)
- 1944Lesley J. McNair — recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1883-1944)
- 1959Isaac HaLevy Herzog — 1st Chief Rabbi of Ireland and Israel (1888–1959)
- 1963Ugo Cerletti — Italian neurologist (1877–1963)
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