About October 25

October 25, 2025 is the 298th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 67 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 115 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On October 25

  • 1147 –
    Seljuk Turks completely annihilate German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
  • 1147 –
    The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.
  • 1616 –
    Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
  • 1747 –
    British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre.
  • 1760 –
    George III becomes King of Great Britain.
  • 1812 –
    War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
  • 1854 –
    The Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade).
  • 1917 –
    Traditionally understood date of the October Revolution, involving the capture of the Winter Palace, Petrograd, Russia. The date refers to the Julian Calendar date, and corresponds with November 7 in the Gregorian calendar.
  • 1920 –
    After 74 days on Hunger Strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died.
  • 1944 –
    Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets.
  • 1944 –
    The Romanian Army liberates Carei, the last Romanian city under Axis Powers occupation.
  • 1944 –
    The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship’s own malfunctioning torpedo.
  • 1945 –
    The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan’s surrender to the Allies.
  • 1962 –
    Uganda joins the United Nations.
  • 1991 –
    History of Slovenia: Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People’s Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.
  • 1995 –
    A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
  • 1997 –
    After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou-Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
  • 2004 –
    Fidel Castro, Cuba’s President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned.
  • 2009 –
    The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.
  • 2010 –
    Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia, begins over a month of eruptions.

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