January 25

January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days remaining until the end of the year (341 in leap years).

Events

Up to 1900

41 – The Roman Senate confirms Claudius as Emperor, after the murder of Caligula the previous day.
1348 – A strong earthquake strikes northern Italy.
1494 – Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
1515 – King Francis I of France is crowned.
1533 – Henry VIII of England marries Anne Boleyn.
1554 – São Paulo, now Brazil's largest city, is founded.
1575 – Luanda, the present–day capital city of Angola, is founded by Portuguese settlers.
1704 – The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
1755 – Moscow University is founded.
1759 – Robert Burns is born. He is widely considered to be Scotland's national poet.
1765 – Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands, is founded.
1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitution Act of 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Victoria, Princess Royal to Frederick of Prussia. It later becomes a popular wedding theme tune.
1879 – The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round–the–world journey in 72 days.

1901 – 2000

1915 – A coup led by Conservative officers removes the government of Victor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho from power in Portugal. The rule of Joaquim Pimenta de Castro will last until May 14.
1918 – Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevist Russia.
1919 – The League of Nations is founded.
1921 – Burgenland becomes a state of Austria.
1924 – The first Winter Olympics begin in Chamonix, in the French Alps.
1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins its defence of Harbin.
1939 – An earthquake measuring magnitude 8.3 strikes Chillan, Chile, killing 28,000.
1942 – Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
1944 – Florence Lee Tim-Oi is ordained in China, becoming the first female Anglican priest.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
1949 – The first Emmy Awards are presented.
1955 – The Soviet Union ends its state of war with Germany.
1961 – John F. Kennedy delivers his first press conference as President of the United States.
1971 – Himachal Pradesh becomes a State of India.
1971 – In a coup in Uganda, Idi Amin takes power, removing President Milton Obote.
1980 – Mother Teresa is honored with the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.
1981 – Jiang Qing, widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death, this is later changed to life imprisonment.
1986 – The National Resistance Movement gets rid of the government of Tito Okello in Uganda, leading to Yoweri Museveni coming to power.
1990 – The Burns Day Storm hits northwestern Europe.
1990 – Avianca Flight 52, a Colombian airliner, crashes due to engine failure at Cove Neck, near New York City.
1993 – Five people are shot outside CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. 2 are killed and 3 are injured.
1994 – The Clementine space probe launches.
1995 – Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant II, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
1996 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to–date to be executed by hanging in the United States.
1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners, while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
1998 – A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, kills 8 people and injures 25.
1999 – A magnitude 6 earthquake in western Colombia kills at least 1,000 people.

From 2001

2004 – Mikheil Saakashvili is inaugurated as President of Georgia.
2004 – The Opportunity space rover lands on the planet Mars.
2004 – Hungarian footballer Miklos Feher collapses at a Primeira Liga game, and dies a few hours later.
2005 – A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple in Mandhradevi in India kills 258 people.
2006 – Three independent observing campaigns announce the discovery of OGLE–2005–BLG–390Lb, the first rocky and icy planet to be found outside the Solar System.
2006 – Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least 10 elderly women.
2009 – Royal Rumble
2010 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take–off from Rafik Hariri Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, killing all 90 people on board.
2011 – 2011 Egyptian protests: Protests begin in Egypt against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak.
2013 – Exactly two years after the start of the 2011 Egyptian protests, widespread protests occur in Egypt against the Muslim Brotherhood and President Mohamed Morsi. Five people are reported killed and at least 200 injured. At least 29 people are also killed in violence on this day in 2014.
2015 – A parliamentary election is held in Greece, and is won by the left–wing SYRIZA party, whose leader Alexis Tsipras is sworn in as Prime Minister of Greece the next day. The result is seen as a rejection of so–called austerity measures imposed after Greece got into economic trouble.

Births

Deaths

Up to 1900

389 – Gregory Nazianzus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 329)
477 – Geiseric, King of the Vandals and Alans
844 – Pope Gregory IV
1067 – Emperor Yingzong of China (b. 1032)
1366 – Henry Suso, German mystic
1431 – Charles I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
1494 – King Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
1559 – King Christian II of Denmark (b. 1481)
1573 – Hirohate Hirohide, Japanese samurai (b. 1553)
1578 – Mihrimah Sultan, Ottoman princess (b. 1522)
1586 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
1640 – Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)
1670 – Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
1726 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1726)
1733 – Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London
1742 – Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)
1744 – Domenico Sarro, Italian composer (b. 1679)
1751 – Paul Dudley, Attorney–General of Massachusetts (b. 1675)
1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian cartographer and explorer (b. 1778)
1857 – Andrew Stevenson, American politician (b. 1784)
1870 – Victor de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)
1881 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)

1901 – 2000

1907 – René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
1908 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
1908 – Ouida, English writer (b. 1839)
1925 – Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (b. 1858)
1947 – Al Capone, American gangster (b. 1899)
1949 – Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesman (b. 1861)
1952 – Sveinn Björnsson, 1st President of Iceland (b. 1881)
1954 – Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian political activist (b. 1887)
1957 – Thomas January, American soccer player (b. 1886)
1958 – Cemil Topuzlu, Turkish politician (b. 1866)
1960 – Diana Barrymore, American actress (b. 1921)
1969 – Irene Castle, English dancer (b. 1887)
1970 – Jane Bathori, French mezzo–soprano (b. 1877)
1975 – Charlotte Whitton, 46th Mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)
1981 – Adele Astaire, American dancer (b. 1897)
1982 – Mikhail Suslov, Soviet politician (b. 1902)
1985 – Ilias Iliou, Greek politician (b. 1904)
1990 – Ava Gardner, American actress (b. 1922)
1994 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (b. 1909)
1995 – Cal Jammer, American actor (b. 1960)
1996 – Jonathan Larson, American composer (b. 1960)
1996 – Billy Bailey, American convicted murderer, last person to be hanged to–date in the US (b. 1947)
1999 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)

From 2001

2004 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch athlete (b. 1918)
2004 – Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
2005 – Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
2005 – William Augustus Bootle, American judge (b. 1902)
2005 – Philip Johnson, American architect (b. 1906)
2005 – Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
2005 – Nettie Witziers-Timmer, Dutch athlete (b. 1923)
2009 – Mamadou Dia, 1st Prime Minister of Senegal (b. 1910)
2009 – Kim Manners, American movie director and producer (b. 1951)
2010 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi politician and military commander (b. 1941)
2012 – Veronica Carstens, former First Lady of Germany (b. 1923)
2014 – Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (b. 1951)
2014 – Dave Strack, American basketball player (b. 1923)
2015 – Demis Roussos, Greek singer (b. 1946)
2015 – Bill Monbouquette, American baseball player (b. 1936)
2015 – Zulkifli Abdhir, Malaysian terrorist (b. 1966)
2016 – Kalpana, Indian actress (b. 1965)
2016 – Concepcion Picciotto, Spanish–American peace activist (b. 1936)
2016 – Paul Terasaki, American scientist and philanthropist (b. 1929)
2017 – Buchi Emecheta, Nigerian novelist (b. 1944)
2017 – Robert Garcia, American politician (b. 1933)
2017 – Kevin Geer, American actor (b. 1954)
2017 – John Hurt, British actor (b. 1940)
2017 – Katja of Sweden, Swedish fashion designer (b. 1920)
2017 – Harry Mathews, American author (b. 1930)
2017 – Jack Mendelsohn, American cartoonist and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2017 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (b. 1936)
2017 – Nigel Rodley, British human rights activist (b. 1941)

Observances

Burns Night (Scotland and Scottish community)
Dydd Santes Dwynwen – Welsh Saint Valentine's Day
National Police Day (Egypt)
National Voters' Day (India)
Tatiana Day (Russia)

January 25

Events

Up to 1900

1901 – 2000

From 2001

Births

Up to 1900

1901 – 1950

1951 – 1975

From 1976

Deaths

Up to 1900

1901 – 2000

From 2001

Observances