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.
- 315 –The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
- 864 –The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings.
- 1538 –The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.
- 1554 –Mary I marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1853 –Joaquin Murietta, the famous Californio bandit known as “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed.
- 1866 –The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the five-star rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
- 1898 –After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.
- 1920 –Telecommunications: the first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast takes place.
- 1942 –Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.
- 1943 –World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
- 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.
- 1976 –Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
- 1983 –Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
- 1984 –Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
- 2007 –Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India’s first female president.
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