About July 25
July 25, 2025 is the 206th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 159 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 207 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 25
- 306 –Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
- 1261 –The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
- 1536 –Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the city of Santiago de Cali.
- 1547 –Henry II of France is crowned.
- 1593 –Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
- 1603 –James VI of Scotland is crowned as king of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
- 1609 –The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
- 1693 –Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, México.
- 1758 –Seven Years’ War: the island battery at Fortress Louisbourg in Nova Scotia is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
- 1783 –American Revolutionary War: The war’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
- 1788 –Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
- 1837 –The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
- 1917 –Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a “temporary” measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
- 1940 –General Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal.
- 1944 –World War II: Operation Spring – one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war: 1,500 casualties, including 500 killed.
- 1961 –In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the “Vietnamization” of the war.
- 1979 –Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
- 1983 –Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- 1993 –The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
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