February 25 in History

Adopted by Hadrian as his successor

New coronation oath binds the King to keep laws passed by consent of the realm

New coronation oath binds the King to keep laws passed by consent of the realm

Francis I appoints Wolsey as his procter to arrange his meeting with Henry VIII

Pope Pius V declares Elizabeth deposed & absolves Catholics from allegiance to her. Pius V issues the bull of excommunication against Elizabeth, "Regnas in Excelsis". Pius V excommunicates all catholics who support Elizabeth I, a fatwa against her

Pius V issues the bull of excommunication against Elizabeth I, "Regnas in Excelsis". Pius V decares Elizabeth I deposed

Pius V declares Elizabeth I a usurper

Pius V declares Elizabeth I a usurper

Executed for a plot to overthrow the Council

Beheaded on Tower Green, becoming the last person to be beheaded in the Tower of London

Executed for a plot to overthrow the Council

Under the Treaty of Stolbovo Russia cedes Ingermanland & eastern Karelia to Sweden

Under the Treaty of Stolbovo Russia cedes Ingermanland & eastern Karelia to Sweden

Under the Treaty of Stolbovo Russia cedes Ingermanland & eastern Karelia to Sweden

Under the Treaty of Stolbovo Russia secures the return of Novgorod from Sweden

Under the Treaty of Stolbovo Russia secures the return of Novgorod from Sweden

Negotiates a peace Treaty with Russia

The Treaty of Stolbovo returns Novgorod to Moscow. Sweden renounces plans to expand toward the White Sea. Russia secures the return of Novgorod from Sweden. Russia pays Sweden 20,000 silver roubles & cedes Ingermanland & eastern Karelia. Russia gives up access to the Baltic Sea. Russia gains recognition of the Tsarist title. Ends the Swedish occupation of Northern Russia

Sweden renounces plans to expand toward the White Sea. Russia secures the return of Novgorod from Sweden. Russia pays Sweden 20,000 silver roubles & cedes Ingermanland & eastern Karelia. Russia gives up access to the Baltic Sea. Russia gains recognition of the Tsarist title. Ends the occupation of northern Russia by Sweden

Assassinates Wallenstein on the orders of Ferdinand II

Assassinated on the orders of Ferdinand II by Walter Deveraux

Has his Imperial Commander assassinated for behaving like an independent warlord

Assassinated on the orders of Ferdinand II by Walter Deveraux

Assassinated on the orders of Ferdinand II by Walter Deveraux

William III of Orange is appointed Captain-General for the coming campaign as the Dutch Republic prepares for a major foreign attack.

Succeeds as King of Prussia, ascends the throne on his fathers death

His bank plan becomes law when Washington signs the bank charter

Signs the act incorporating the Bank of the United States

Hamilton secures a federal charter for the First Bank of the United States.

1st USA Cabinet meeting, department heads in Washingtons House

Massena relinquished command after a mutiny among troops serving in the Papal States.

Performs Dona Sol in the premiere of Victor Hugo's Hernani.

Hernani premieres at the Comedie-Francaise and becomes a landmark of French Romantic drama.

Receives United States patent number 132 for an electromagnetic motor.

Secures the first United States patent issued for an electric motor.

The first piston carriage is delivered and makes an initial atmospheric test run from Exeter.

Hosts the peace congress ending the war.

Supports the opening of the Congress of Paris, where the powers negotiate a final peace settlement.

Congress authorises United States notes not immediately redeemable in specie.

The National Banking Act creates federally chartered banks and a uniform banknote system.

Cabinet opts for the Ten Minutes Bill which Disraeli announces in the Commons

Informed by Charles Anthony that Leopold had been sounded out for the Spanish throne. Charles Anthony asks Bismarck to tell William to decide Leopolds Spanish succession

Appointed President of Venezuela, 2nd term

The Jules de Burlet Government ends in Brussels, concluding this period as head of the Belgian government.

Begins the First de Smet de Naeyer Government in Brussels and serves as head of the Belgian government.

Morgan organises United States Steel as the world's first billion-dollar corporation.

Carden resumes the naval assault and heavily engages the outer forts near Cape Helles.

Carden's fleet moves farther into the Straits after Ottoman resistance at some outer positions is reduced.

Guepratte's ships move closer to Ottoman positions as the outer forts are suppressed.

Allied battleships engage intermediate batteries as Carden moves from the entrance phase toward operations deeper in the Straits.

Durazzo captured by Austrian forces

Ordered by Nicholas II to use force on the Petrograd demonstrators

Orders the suppression of demonstrations by the use of force. Nicholas orders that the demonstrations be suppressed by force

Armed clashes with the police occur, with many killed and wounded, Empress Alexandra writes to Nicholas II, "This is a hooligan campaign, with boys and girls running about shouting that they have no bread..all this will surely pass"

The amnesty is withdrawn in 1922. Announces an amnesty to all members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party

The Cheka closes down Vsegda Vpered, marks a return to despotic rule by Bolsheviks

The Cheka closes down Vsegda Vpered, marks a return to despotic rule by Bolsheviks

The Cheka closes down Vsegda Vpered, marks a return to despotic rule by Bolsheviks

Hitler announces the 25 Point Program of the NSDAP

Remains the official party program throughout the party's existence

The 1st of the 25 points is "We demand the union of all Germans in a Great Germany on the basis of the principle of self-determination of all peoples"

The 2nd of the 25 points is "We demand that the German people have rights equal to those of other nations; and that the Peace Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain shall be abrogated"

The 3rd of the 25 points is "We demand land and territory (colonies) for the maintenance of our people and the settlement of our surplus population"

The First Jon Magnusson Government ends, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Iceland.

The party keeps the program when it changes its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party in April 1920 & remains the official party program throughout the party's existence

Begins the Second Jon Magnusson Government and serves as Prime Minister of Iceland.

The Red Army enters capital Tbilisi and installs a puppet communist Government led by Georgian Bolshevik Filipp Makharadze

The Red Army enters capital Tbilisi and installs a puppet communist Government led by Georgian Bolshevik Filipp Makharadze

The Red Army enters capital Tbilisi and installs a puppet communist Government led by Georgian Bolshevik Filipp Makharadze

The Red Army enters capital Tbilisi and installs a puppet communist Government led by Georgian Bolshevik Filipp Makharadze

The Red Army enters capital Tbilisi and installs a puppet communist Government led by Georgian Bolshevik Filipp Makharadze

The Red Army enters capital Tbilisi and installs a puppet communist Government led by Georgian Bolshevik Filipp Makharadze

The Red Army enters capital Tbilisi and installs a puppet communist Government led by Georgian Bolshevik Filipp Makharadze

Hitler is granted German citizenship

Japan leaves the League of Nation as a reaction on the Lytton Report

Zhukov issues a secret directive naming Germany as a probable enemyand instructs frontier regions to make preparations

Appointed Supreme Commander of Allied forces in India & Burma

Appointed Supreme Commander of Allied forces in India & Burma

Appointed de facto President of Argentina

The USA bombs Tokyo, 200,000 are killed

The First Gottwald Government ends in Prague, concluding this term as Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia.

Begins the Second Gottwald Government in Prague and serves as Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia.

Denounces Stalin as a criminal & that unreconstructed Stalinists are no better

Delivers the secret speech denouncing Stalin's cult of personality, purges and abuses of power.

Makes a speech denouncing Stalin as a military incompetent, a liar & mass murderer

Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 1st term

Oswald took a Marine foreign-language qualification test in Russian on February 25, 1959, and received poor ratings in all tested areas.

Andrews informed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that three days earlier (on the day of the assassination of President Kennedy) he received a telephone call from a Clay Bertrand who asked him whether he would be willing to represent the suspected assassin of Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald

Andrews informed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that three days earlier (on the day of the assassination of President Kennedy) he received a telephone call from a Clay Bertrand who asked him whether he would be willing to represent the suspected assassin of Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald

Prior to Alis fight with & defeat of Sonny Liston for his 1st World title he declares that he would "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee"

Prior to Alis fight with & defeat of Sonny Liston for his 1st World title he declares that he would "float like a butterfly and sting like a bee". Liston loses his title when he quit in his corner before the start of the seventh round, claiming he had hurt his shoulder, some believe the fight was fixed, and doubted that Listons shoulder injury was real

Khanh accepts the face-saving post of ambassador-at-large after being forced from power by the Armed Forces Council

The Kinks release Dedicated Follower of Fashion.

Senghor wins another presidential term

Andrews testified during the trial of Clay Shaw that the name "Clay Bertrand was a figment of [his] imagination" and that he had been "carrying on a farce" in order to prevent "bring[ing] a lot of heat and trouble to someone who didnt deserve it"

Powell makes a speech asking the electorate to vote Labour because of their EC policy

Deputy Foreign Minister Richard Luce begins sovereignty talks with his Argentine counterpart Ernesto Ros in New York

Deputy Foreign Minister Richard Luce begins sovereignty talks with his Argentine counterpart Ernesto Ros in New York

Opens sovereignty talks with Argentine representatives.

Pakistan holds general elections without formal party participation.

Pakistan holds general elections without formal party participation.

General election outcome recorded for Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq: Pakistan holds general elections without formal party participation.

Government context for this general election: Pakistan holds general elections without formal party participation.

The US military command provide a helicopter at Clark airbase to fly him to Hawaii

Under A. P. J. Abdul Kalam's missile programme leadership, the Prithvi surface-to-surface missile undergoes its first test flight.

Announces to the House of Commons his intention to privatize the electricity industry

The US backed coalition defeats Ortegas Sandanista Government

The US backed coalition defeats Ortegas Sandanista Government

McCaffrey's mechanised division advances rapidly through western Iraq to block retreat routes.

Iraqi forces fired a Scud missile at an American barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The missile attack killed 28 US military personnel

John Lennon is given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 34th Annual Grammy Awards

Arafat faces Palestinian anger after the Hebron massacre while continuing negotiations with Israel

Rabin condemns the Hebron massacre and faces pressure to protect the Oslo process

In the Hebron massacre, Jewish settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein opens fire on Palestinians praying in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron killing 29 people

In the Hebron massacre, Jewish settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein opens fire on Palestinians praying in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron killing 29 people

Baruch Goldstein kills Muslim worshippers in Hebron creating a major crisis for the peace process

In the Hebron massacre, Jewish settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein opens fire on Palestinians praying in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and kills 29 people

In the Hebron massacre, Jewish settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein opens fire on Palestinians praying in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and kills 29 people

Elastica's Waking Up reaches number thirteen on the UK singles chart.

Wins Album of the Year for Time Out of Mind.

A bomb explodes at Baghdads Mustansiriya University, killing about 40 people, mostly students

Receives Academy Award nominations connected with Letters from Iwo Jima.

Wade wins re-election for a second presidential term

Chelsea defeat Arsenal 2-1 in the League Cup final to win another domestic trophy.

Mutinous Bangladeshi border guards open fire at their headquarters in the capital and seize a nearby shopping mall, injuring several people in an insurrection apparently sparked by pay disputes

Starmer publishes final public-interest guidance for assisted-suicide prosecution decisions.

New Horizons passes the halfway point in travel time between its 2006 launch and the 2015 Pluto encounter.

Begins the formal transitional presidency.

Takes the presidential oath before Parliament.

Helps organize civil defense and curfew measures in Kyiv as Russian forces advance

Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

Appears in central Kyiv with senior officials to show that the government remains in the capital.

Starmer announces a timetable for defence spending to reach two and one-half percent of GDP.

Links U.S. support to a proposed minerals agreement with Ukraine.

Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem is switched off to preserve power for the remaining mission.

Birth of Ahmed II

Birth of Jose de San Martin

Birth of George Lennox Rawdon Berkeley

Birth of Pierre Auguste Renoir

Birth of Enrico Caruso

Birth of Thomas "Tom" Crean

The future Soviet government leader is born in the Russian Empire.

Aleksey Rykov is born in 1881.

Birth of John Foster Dules

Birth of Bernard Bresslaw

Birth of George Harrison, in Speke

Birth of George Harrison in Liverpool.

Jovian dies & the Army generals decide to choose Valentian as his successor

Death of Robert Devereux, executed

Death of Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein

Death of Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, assassinated

Has his Imperial Commander assassinated for behaving like an independent warlord

Death of Frederick I

Former President Hosni Mubarak dies in Cairo at the age of ninety-one.

De la Rey attacks a British convoy at Ysterspruit and captures large quantities of transport and supplies.

Kemp joins De la Rey's attack on the British convoy at Ysterspruit during the western Transvaal campaign.

George V & Churchill inspect the Royal Naval Div before it sails to the Dardanelles

The Allied fleet destroys outer forts of the Dardanelles

George V & Churchill inspect the Royal Naval Div before it sails to the Dardanelles

Demolition parties of Royal Marines raided the Sedd el Bahr and Kum Kale forts, meeting little opposition. Another attempt is made on February 25, this time the Ottomans evacuate the outer defences and the fleet enters the straits to engage the intermediate defences

Begins successfully when the Germans take Fort Douamont, Verduns strongest position

Helps command the defense of Kyiv against Russian forces.

New coronation oath binds the King to keep laws passed by consent of the realm

Serves in the coronation of his cousin, King Edward II, carrying Curtana, the sword of St Edward the Confessor