2025 in History

Scores the only goal as Crystal Palace win the FA Cup for the first time.

Receives major awards attention for portraying Bob Dylan.

Starmer announces plans to return NHS England functions to the Health Department.

Wins Best Actor for The Brutalist.

Wins Best Actress for Anora.

Anora wins Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

Lindorna Sweeney serves as acting Governor before Harriet Cross arrives

Min Aung Hlaing becomes acting president after Myint Swe's death

Agrees to work toward reduced agri food barriers with the European Union.

Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu leads the Pakistan Air Force during the May 2025 air and missile confrontation with India.

JAXA ends Akatsuki operations after more than eight years of Venus orbital observations and major advances in planetary meteorology.

ONS estimates that real GDP increased by 1.1 percent across 2024.

The Government estimates that ending resident-doctor strikes protected half a million NHS appointments.

ONS initially estimates that monthly GDP contracted by 0.3 percent in April 2025.

Coaches Arsenal to a 1-0 victory over Barcelona and the club's second European women's title.

Starmer attends international discussions on artificial intelligence investment, safety and governance.

Leads Labor to re-election in the federal election.

Launches on Axiom Mission 4.

Launches on Axiom Mission 4.

Commands Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space Station.

Shubhanshu Shukla launches as pilot of Axiom Mission 4 on a mission to the International Space Station.

Claims victory in a disputed presidential election.

Returns to Benfica as head coach nearly twenty-five years after his first managerial spell there.

BepiColombo completes its sixth and final planned Mercury gravity-assist flyby before the orbital phase.

Releases Better Man, a soundtrack linked to the biographical film about his life and career.

Firefly's Blue Ghost lander reaches the Moon.

Orbital continues global attention after its Booker Prize win.

Campaigns on post-Brexit politics through Reform UK after returning to Westminster.

Starmer recalls Parliament to protect continued steel production at Scunthorpe.

Trump announces additional tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China.

Leads the Liberal Party to victory in the federal election.

Says any temporary ceasefire must address Russia's conditions.

Says after a call with Putin that Russia and Ukraine will begin ceasefire negotiations

Komsic again takes the rotating chairmanship of the Presidency

Fenerbahce lose to Benfica in the Champions League playoff and drop into the Europa League.

Guides Aston Villa past Club Brugge to reach the Champions League quarter-finals.

Guides Paris Saint-Germain to its first Champions League title.

Is elected and sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.

Scores twice as Chelsea win the Club World Cup.

Signs a constitutional declaration for the transitional period.

Ishaq Dar conducts diplomatic contacts during the escalating India-Pakistan crisis and subsequent ceasefire negotiations.

Guides Crystal Palace to their first FA Cup with a 1-0 final victory over Manchester City.

Khawaja Asif represents Pakistan's defence policy during the May 2025 confrontation and public discussions of military readiness.

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

Works on wartime defense procurement and international assistance.

Schlegel helps present DESI Data Release One, opening public access to a vast spectroscopic map used for precision expansion and dark-energy research.

Palanque-Delabrouille helps present the three-year DESI analysis combining BAO with complementary cosmological data to test whether dark energy changes over cosmic time.

Levi reports that DESI's first three years strengthen indications that dark energy may evolve with time when combined with other cosmological measurements.

Goita signs a decree dissolving political parties and organisations throughout Mali.

Scores twice and creates another goal as Paris Saint-Germain defeat Inter 5-0.

Expands drone procurement for Ukraine's armed forces.

Ukraine defends positions across the eastern front.

Parliament elects Tassoulas President of the Hellenic Republic.

Starmer launches reforms intended to restore the eighteen-week planned-treatment standard.

Leaves office at the end of his presidential term.

Meets Recep Tayyip Erdogan while seeking direct leader-level talks and a ceasefire with Russia.

Mellier's Euclid Consortium releases the mission's first survey data, opening a large galaxy dataset that prepares the way for future dark-energy cosmology analyses.

Europa Clipper uses Mars for a gravity assist on its journey toward the Jupiter system.

Fenerbahce are eliminated by Rangers on penalties after overturning the first-leg deficit during regulation time.

Hosts European leaders to discuss Ukraine security support.

Wins Eurovision for Austria as JJ.

Austria wins Eurovision with Wasted Love.

Goita promulgates a revised charter granting a renewable five-year transitional mandate.

Gives his presidential farewell address.

ONS estimates that monthly GDP grew by 0.5 percent in February 2025.

Villa defeats Manchester City 3-1 to win the FA Youth Cup for a fifth time.

Marape leads national commemorations for fifty years of independence

Issues final-day pardons and commutations.

The Government confirms the first 750 schools selected for free breakfast clubs.

ONS estimates that GDP grew by 0.7 percent during the first quarter of 2025.

ONS estimates that real GDP per head grew by 0.5 percent in the first quarter.

Starmer hosts European Union leaders at the first UK-EU summit since withdrawal.

Paz leads the first presidential round and advances to Bolivia's first runoff.

Agrees longer term reciprocal fishing access arrangements with the European Union.

Makes his Formula One debut with Sauber.

Wins the Formula One drivers' championship.

ONS estimates that the economy grew by 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024.

Free breakfast clubs begin operating in hundreds of primary schools across England.

The Government announces free school meals for children in all Universal Credit households.

Wins the French Open men's singles title.

Wins the French Open women's singles title.

Burnham completes the return of Greater Manchester's bus network to local public control.

Ciolacu leads the government when internal land-border checks are removed.

Starmer announces reforms linking post-sixteen education more closely with national skills needs.

Israel resumes large-scale strikes in Gaza.

ONS reports no real GDP-per-head growth across 2024.

Leads the People's Action Party to victory.

Loses a confidence vote and resigns as prime minister.

Harriet Cross becomes Governor of Montserrat

Wins Album of the Year for Cowboy Carter.

Sarra Zaafrani Zenzri became head of government of Tunisia.

Intuitive Machines launches the IM-2 lunar mission.

Starmer presents reforms intended to reduce migration and strengthen domestic skills requirements.

Allied legislature approves reforms allowing indefinite presidential re-election

The NHS agrees expanded use of independent capacity while keeping treatment free to patients.

Dar confirms Pakistan's participation in the ceasefire understanding reached after several days of intense exchanges with India.

Shehbaz Sharif's government confirms a ceasefire after several days of fighting with India.

Pauses some intelligence sharing with Ukraine.

Is appointed interim president during Syria's transition.

Wins the Irish presidential election.

Israel attacks Iranian nuclear and military sites.

Israel launches major strikes on Iranian targets.

Announces Ukraine's support for a proposed temporary ceasefire.

Hosts U.S. and Ukrainian officials for ceasefire talks.

Represents Ukraine in talks with U.S. officials.

NASA reports Juno restored to normal operations after safe-mode events during its 71st close Jupiter pass.

Russian forces intensify counterattacks in Kursk Oblast.

Russian forces press a counteroffensive to recapture territory in Kursk

Says about ten thousand Russian troops are fighting in the Kursk region

Ukrainian forces defend positions in Russia's Kursk region.

Wins the women's London Marathon.

Wins the men's London Marathon.

Starmer hosts European and allied leaders to coordinate support and peace planning for Ukraine.

Faces a major loss of government control as M23 forces enter and capture Bukavu in South Kivu.

M23 forces enter Goma while Congolese troops continue resisting in parts of the city.

Faces pro-democracy protests over planned party dissolution.

Wins the Masters and completes the career grand slam.

ONS estimates that monthly GDP fell by 0.1 percent in May 2025.

Italy win the men's volleyball world championship.

Mio collects further information on Mercury's magnetic and plasma environment during BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby.

Announces major changes to Meta content moderation policy.

Asim Munir commands the Pakistan Army during the May confrontation with India.

Oversees Russia's wartime defense spending increase.

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

Russia continues missile and drone attacks against Ukrainian cities.

Iran fires missiles at U.S. bases after American strikes.

Releases More with Pulp, the band's first new studio album since We Love Life.

Pulp's More reaches number one on the UK albums chart, their first chart-topping album in twenty-seven years.

Juno infrared data reveal the most powerful volcanic activity yet recorded on Io.

Criticizes European policy during wartime security talks.

Shehbaz Sharif leads Pakistan's civilian government as military exchanges with India intensify after Indian strikes on targets inside Pakistan.

Meets Donald Trump during the NATO summit and discusses air defense, weapons and diplomacy.

Leads Oklahoma City Thunder to the NBA title.

Serdar marks the thirtieth anniversary of Turkmenistan's permanent neutrality as President

Starmer welcomes NHS App expansion credited with preventing 1.5 million missed appointments.

Resident doctors begin another five-day strike across NHS organisations in England.

Asim Munir leads the army during Pakistan's Operation Bunyan-un-Marsoos on 10 May.

Sharif's government announces Operation Bunyan-un-Marsoos as Pakistan responds to Indian military strikes.

Modi announces Operation Sindoor strikes after the Pahalgam attack, as India targets sites it identifies as terrorist infrastructure.

Captains Paris Saint-Germain during the record 5-0 final victory over Inter.

Opens the scoring against his former club as Paris Saint-Germain win their first European Cup.

Burnham argues for a state organised around places rather than isolated Whitehall departments.

Wins Poland's presidential election.

The Government publishes reforms covering technical education, higher education and workforce skills.

Helps Liverpool secure the Premier League title before leaving the club.

Contributes in midfield as Liverpool win the Premier League title.

Helps Liverpool win the Premier League under Arne Slot.

Liverpool win the Premier League title under Arne Slot.

Guides Liverpool to the 2024-25 Premier League title.

Captains Liverpool during their 2024-25 Premier League title season.

Min Aung Hlaing transfers the prime ministership to Nyo Saw

Paz is inaugurated as President of Bolivia during a severe economic crisis.

Begins his second presidential term in Ecuador.

Is inaugurated as President of Ireland.

Is elected president by parliament.

Is inaugurated as President of Poland.

Dan is sworn in as President of Romania.

Is sworn in as President of Romania.

Is inaugurated after the snap election.

Is inaugurated for a second non-consecutive presidential term.

Is sworn in for a disputed third presidential term.

Wins the presidential election and secures a seven-year mandate as Ireland's next President.

Takes office as President of Ireland at the formal inauguration ceremony in Dublin Castle.

Tassoulas assumes office as President of the Hellenic Republic.

Paz wins Bolivia's first presidential runoff and ends the MAS government's long tenure.

Is sworn in as Canada twenty-fourth prime minister.

Is sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada

Is appointed prime minister after Bayrou's resignation.

Becomes Japan's first female prime minister.

Is designated prime minister after Joseph Aoun's election.

Bolojan takes office as prime minister and forms a coalition government.

Alexandru Munteanu becomes Prime Minister after Recean leaves the premiership

Nyo Saw becomes Prime Minister after the SAC caretaker government transition

Is released from prison and deported to Lithuania.

Goita faces protests demanding elections and opposing proposals to dissolve Mali's political parties.

Pakistan's cabinet approves Asim Munir's promotion to field marshal following the May 2025 military confrontation with India.

Trump announces a ten-percent baseline tariff and higher country-specific reciprocal rates.

Serdar suggests political reforms while continuing as President and head of government

Resident doctors begin five days of industrial action after renewed disagreement over pay.

Leaves office after nearly a decade as prime minister.

Leaves office after announcing his resignation.

Says Ukraine will share a revised twenty-point peace plan with the United States after talks with European leaders.

Canal board approves plans for the Rio Indio lake project.

Wins Romania's presidential election.

The Government reaches a pay and reform agreement ending the Royal Fleet Auxiliary dispute.

Sets a shortened deadline for Russia to make progress toward ending the war

Russia continues offensive pressure in Donetsk Oblast.

ONS estimates that construction output grew by 1.2 percent in the second quarter.

ONS estimates that GDP increased by 0.3 percent during the second quarter of 2025.

ONS estimates that services output grew by 0.4 percent in the second quarter.

Returns as Taoiseach after nomination by Dail Eireann and appointment by the President.

The Government accepts a four percent teacher pay award for the 2025/26 academic year.

Is sworn in as Secretary of State.

Agrees a security and defence partnership with the European Union.

Leads the People's Action Party to victory.

General election outcome recorded for Lawrence Wong: Leads the People's Action Party to victory.

Government context for this general election: Leads the People's Action Party to victory.

Wins the snap presidential election.

V. Narayanan leads ISRO when the two SpaDeX spacecraft successfully dock in orbit, demonstrating India's autonomous space-docking capability.

Pulp release Spike Island as the first single from their first new studio album in decades.

SpaceX conducts a Starship test flight.

Starmer accepts a defence review focused on readiness, technology and European security.

Headlines the Super Bowl LIX halftime show.

Leads the Eagles to victory in Super Bowl LIX.

Starmer publishes an NHS plan centred on community care, digital services and prevention.

ONS reports that real GDP grew by 0.1 percent in the third quarter of 2025.

ONS estimates that GDP grew by 0.5 percent in the three months to May.

Releases Tracks II The Lost Albums, collecting seven previously unreleased full-length records.

Proposes a ceasefire lasting until a direct meeting with Vladimir Putin can be arranged.

Says Russia is open to talks with the new U.S. administration.

Returns to office promising to seek an end to the war.

Meets Donald Trump before Pope Francis's funeral and discusses efforts to end the war.

Scores two direct free kicks as Arsenal defeat Real Madrid 3-0 in the Champions League quarter-final first leg.

Starmer announces that more than two million additional NHS appointments were delivered early.

Holds the first UK EU summit since withdrawal from the European Union.

Starmer agrees to negotiate reduced sanitary barriers affecting agricultural and food trade.

Starmer agrees reciprocal access to waters through June 2038 under the renewed partnership.

Starmer agrees a framework for closer security and defence cooperation with the European Union.

Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskyy sign a long-term partnership covering security and economic cooperation.

Pauses some U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

Presses allies for weapons, sanctions and accountability.

New U.S. administration inherits the ongoing war.

Reviews U.S. policy toward Ukraine after taking office.

Starmer announces completion of negotiations for a bilateral trade agreement with India.

Starmer announces an economic agreement reducing selected trade barriers with the United States.

Lamy leads analysis of long-term Hubble auroral observations that determines Uranus's interior rotation rate with improved precision.

Orders strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.

Welcomes the signing of a United States-Ukraine minerals and reconstruction investment agreement.

Is inaugurated as vice president of the United States.

Declares a three-day ceasefire to mark the eightieth anniversary of victory in World War II

Leads commemorations marking eighty years since Victory in Europe Day.

Engineers revive long-dormant Voyager 1 roll thrusters to provide a backup attitude-control option.

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

The Government reports that the elective waiting list has fallen by 193,000.

Defends Russia's war aims in international diplomacy.

Signs a United States-brokered peace agreement with Rwanda covering security coordination, troop withdrawal commitments and regional economic cooperation.

Meets Donald Trump and European leaders to discuss security guarantees and possible direct talks with Russia.

Meets Donald Trump in a tense Oval Office exchange over the war and proposed minerals agreement.

Wins the Wimbledon men's singles title.

Wins the Wimbledon women's singles title.

Scores the only goal as Arsenal defeat Barcelona to win the UEFA Women's Champions League.

England win the Women's European Championship.

Leads the Dodgers to the World Series title.

Myint Swe dies after a long illness while acting president

Dies aged ninety-five after shaping post-communist Romania.

Dies in the Air India Flight 171 crash.