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Happened this day (25 April) * Source Wikipedia

- Pre-1600
- 410 The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending the Southern Yan dynasty.
- 421 Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
- 708 Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until 1967.
- 717 Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter the clergy allowing Leo III to take the throne and begin the Isaurian dynasty.
- 919 Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.
- 1000 Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government.
- 1065 The Great German Pilgrimage is attacked on Good Friday by Beduin bandits, suffering heavy losses.
- 1306 Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).
- 1409 The Council of Pisa convenes, in an attempt to heal the Western Schism.
- 1410 The Yongle Emperor of Ming China launches the first of his military campaigns against the Mongols, resulting in the fall of the Mongol khan Bunyashiri.
- 1519 Hernando Cortes, entering province of Tabasco, defeats Tabascan Indians.
- 1576 Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.
- 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
- 1601–1900
- 1655 Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
- 1708 A French fleet anchors nears Fife Ness as part of the planned French invasion of Britain.
- 1725 Bach's chorale cantata "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1", is first performed on the Feast of the Annunciation, coinciding with Palm Sunday.
- 1770 Daskalogiannis leads the people of Sfakia in the first Greek uprising against the Ottoman rule
- 1802 The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
- 1807 The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
- 1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
- 1821 Greek War of Independence: Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821 (Julian calendar).
- 1845 New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army.
- 1865 American Civil War: In Virginia during the Siege of Petersburg, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union before being repulsed.
- 1894 Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
- 1901–present
- 1905 The Greek football club P.A.E. G.S. Diagoras is founded in the city of Rhodes.
- 1911 In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
- 1911 Andrey Yushchinsky is murdered in Kiev, leading to the Beilis affair.
- 1914 The Greek multi-sport club Aris Thessaloniki is founded in Thessaloniki.
- 1917 The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
- 1918 The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
- 1919 The Tetiev pogrom occurs in Ukraine, becoming the prototype of mass murder during the Holocaust.
- 1924 On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
- 1931 The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
- 1932 The famous Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is unveiled in Athens.
- 1941 The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
- 1947 An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
- 1948 The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
- 1949 More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
- 1957 United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
- 1957 The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
- 1959 Chain Island is sold by the State of California to Russell Gallaway III, a Sacramento businessman who plans to use it as a "hunting and fishing retreat", for $5,258.20 ($54,957 in 2023).
- 1965 Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile (80 ;km) march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1971 The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
- 1975 Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew.
- 1979 The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
- 1988 The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
- 1995 WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
- 1996 The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
- 2006 Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
- 2006 Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged 2006 Belarusian presidential election, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
- 2018 Syrian civil war: Following the completion of the Afrin offensive, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) initiate an insurgency against the Turkish occupation of the Afrin District.