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The Treaty of Constantinople was negotiated by Giovanni Dario, a Venetian diplomat, who played a crucial role in the negotiations.
January 25 in History
1479 — The Treaty of Constantinople ends the 16-year-long First Ottoman–Venetian War
January 25 spans 66 recorded events across recorded history, from 41 to 2019. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.
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Historical Events
66 events
41 – 2019
Today in history
More major events on January 25
The featured story and these ranked highlights form a quick summary. Every recorded event remains available in the chronology below.
- 2015 A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines kills 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters. Source
- 1961 In Washington, D.C., US President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference. Source
- 1787 Shays' Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty. Source
Did you know
Scutari, one of the territories ceded by Venice, is a city located in modern-day Albania.
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The Mani Peninsula, also ceded by Venice, is a region in southern Greece.
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Negroponte, acknowledged as lost by Venice, is the medieval name for the Greek island of Euboea.
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The annual flat tax of 10,000 ducats paid by Venice was a significant concession to the Ottoman Empire.
41
After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
Calendar year
750
In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty.
Part of the Abbasid Revolution, 750 AD
1327
Fourteen-year-old Edward III ascends the throne of England after his father the king is forced to abdicate by Queen Isabella and her lover, Roger Mortimer.
King of England from 1327 to 1377
1348
A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
Earthquake in northeastern Italy
1515
Coronation of Francis I of France takes place at Reims Cathedral, where the new monarch is anointed with the oil of Clovis and girt with the sword of Charlemagne.
Legitimation ceremony in the Kingdom of France
1533
Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
King of England from 1509 to 1547
1573
Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
1573 battle in Japan
1575
Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
Capital and largest city of Angola
1585
Walter Raleigh is knighted, shortly after renaming a North American region as "Virginia", in honour of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen".
English statesman and explorer (1552–1618)
1650
As part of the purges following the Great Potosí Mint Fraud of 1649 Francisco Gómez de la Rocha, a rich former corregidor of Potosí, is executed.
Spanish monetary scandal
1704
The Apalachee massacre: A combined British and Muscogee force from the Province of Carolina destroys the main fortified mission of Ayubale, breaking Spain's hold on Spanish Florida.
1704 engagement of Queen Anne's War
1787
Shays' Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
Armed uprising in western Massachusetts (1786–1787)
1791
The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
United English and Scottish parliament 1707–1800
1792
The London Corresponding Society is founded.
Late 18th-century British parliamentary reform organization
1819
University of Virginia chartered by Commonwealth of Virginia, with Thomas Jefferson one of its founders.
Public university in Charlottesville, Virginia, US
1858
The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
Composition by Felix Mendelssohn
1881
Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
1890
Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
American investigative journalist (1864–1922)
1909
Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
German composer and conductor (1864–1949)
1915
Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S.
transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1917
Sinking of the SS Laurentic after hitting two German mines off the coast of northwest Ireland.
British ocean liner sunk by mines in 1917
1918
The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia.
1917–18/1918–21 state in Eastern Europe
1918
The Finnish Defence Forces (The White Guards) are established as the official army of independent Finland, and Baron C.
G. E. Mannerheim is appointed its Commander-in-Chief.
1924
The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
Multi-sport event in Chamonix, France
1932
Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins the defense of Harbin.
1937–1945 conflict in East Asia
1932
Alt Llobregat insurrection suppressed in Central Catalonia, Spain.
1932 general strike in Catalonia, Spain
1937
The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago.
In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
1941
Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese.
It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1942
World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
Global conflict (1939–1945)
1946
The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
North American labor union
1946
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to Military Staff Committee is adopted.
United Nations Security Council resolution
1947
Thomas Goldsmith Jr.
files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
1949
The first Emmy Awards are presented in the United States; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club.
American television awards
1960
The National Association of Broadcasters in the United States reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
United States media lobby group
1961
In Washington, D.C., US President John F.
Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
1961
Walt Disney Productions released the animated feature One Hundred and One Dalmatians, based on Dodie Smith's 1956 children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians.
American film production company
1964
Blue Ribbon Sports, which would later become Nike, is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes.
American athletic equipment company
1967
South Vietnamese junta leader and Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky fires rival, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Nguyen Huu Co, while the latter is overseas on a diplomatic visit.
Country in Southeast Asia (1955–1975)
1969
Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles.
Land arm of the Brazilian Armed Forces
1971
Charles Manson and four "Family" members (three of them female) are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
American criminal and cult leader (1934–2017)
1971
Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979
1979
Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
Head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005
1980
Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
Albanian-Indian Catholic saint (1910–1997)
1986
The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
Political party in Uganda
1990
Avianca Flight 052 crashes in Cove Neck, New York, killing 73.
1990 aviation accident in New York
1993
Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Two are killed and three wounded.
1994
1995
The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
1995 misidentification of sounding rocket
1996
Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the United States.
American convicted murderer; last person to be hanged in the US
1998
During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
Head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005
1998
A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
Tamil militant organisation in Sri Lanka (1976–2009)
1999
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
Measure of earthquake size
2003
Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
Military invasion led by the United States
2005
A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
2005 stampede in Wai, Maharashtra, India
2006
Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
Mexican-style professional wrestling
2010
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Na'ameh, Lebanon, killing 90.
2010 aviation accident in the Mediterranean Sea
2011
The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes.
2013
At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
2013 deadly prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela
2015
A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines kills 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.
2015 shootout between Philippine police and Islamist militants in Maguindanao
2018
An Ariane 5 rocket is launched carrying SES-14, Al Yah 3, and NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, but the satellites end up in the wrong orbit.
European heavy-lift space launch vehicle (1996–2023)
2019
A mining company's dam collapses in Brumadinho, Brazil, a south-eastern city, killing 270 people.
2019 dam collapse in Brumadinho, Brazil