About August 25
August 25, 2025 is the 237th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 128 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 176 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 25
- 1258 –Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under, paving the way for its leader, Michael VIII Palaiologos, to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.
- 1537 –The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
- 1580 –Battle of Alcântara. Spain defeats Portugal.
- 1758 –Seven Years’ War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
- 1768 –James Cook begins his first voyage.
- 1830 –The Belgian Revolution begins.
- 1912 –The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
- 1914 –World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
- 1920 –Polish-Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends. The Red Army is defeated.
- 1939 –The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.
- 1942 –World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
- 1942 –World War II: second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
- 1961 –President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power.
- 1980 –Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
- 1981 –Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn
- 1989 –Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan’s first female cabinet secretary.
- 1989 –Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
- 1989 –Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.
- 1997 –Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
- 2003 –The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
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