November 25 in History

World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State

1943 — World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

November 25 spans 61 recorded events across recorded history, from 571 BC to 2009. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.

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Historical Events 61 events 571 BC – 2009

More major events on November 25

The featured story and these ranked highlights form a quick summary. Every recorded event remains available in the chronology below.

  1. 1783 American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City, three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris. Source
  2. 1491 The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada. Source
  3. 1975 Coup of 25 November 1975, a failed military coup d'état by Portuguese far-left activists seeking to hijack the Portuguese transition to democracy to establish a communist regime. Source

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In 1943, World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This featured entry focuses on the immediate decision and its direct historical impact.

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The State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, commonly abbreviated as the ZAVNOBiH, was convened on 25 November 1943 in Mrkonjić Grad during the World War II Axis occupation of Yugoslavia. This helps explain why the event mattered beyond the initial announcement.

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It was established as the highest representative and legislative body in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina under control of the Yugoslav Partisans. This clarifies the institutional and public response around the event.

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In 1943, World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina had consequences that extended beyond the first headline. The key context is the institutions involved, the policy shift, and how the public response evolved afterward.

Did you know

In 1943, World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina had consequences that extended beyond the first headline. The key context is the institutions involved, the policy shift, and how the public response evolved afterward.

-571 Servius_Tullius
Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates the first of his three triumphs for his victory over the Etruscans.
King of Rome from c. 578 to 535 BC
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1034
Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots, dies.
His grandson, Donnchad, son of Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
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1120 White_Ship_disaster
The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England.
12th-century shipwreck, killing the heir to the English throne
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1177 Baldwin_IV_of_Jerusalem
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.
King of Jerusalem from 1174 to 1185
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1343 Tsunami
A tsunami, caused by an earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.
Series of water waves
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1400 Minkhaung_I
King Minkhaung I becomes king of Ava.
King of Ava
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1487 Elizabeth_of_York
Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen Consort of England.
Queen of England from 1486 to 1503
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1491 Granada_War
The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada.
Final war of the Reconquista
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1510 Portuguese_conquest_of_Goa
Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.
1510 military campaign in India
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1596 Cudgel_War
The Cudgel War begins in Finland (at the time part of Sweden), when peasants rebel against the imposition of taxes by the nobility.
1596–1597 peasant uprising in Finland
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1667
A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
1667 seismic event centered near present-day Shamakhi, Azerbaijan
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1678 Trunajaya_rebellion
Trunajaya rebellion: After a long and logistically challenging march, the allied Mataram and Dutch troops successfully assault the rebel stronghold of Kediri.
1674–80 failed revolt in Java
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1755 Ferdinand_VI
King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
King of Spain from 1746 to 1759
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1758 French_and_Indian_War
French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.
Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh.
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1759
An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000–40,000.
Series of earthquakes in Levant
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1783 American_Revolutionary_War
American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City, three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
1775–1783 conflict in North America
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1795 Partitions_of_Poland
Partitions of Poland: Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
18th-century forced partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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1826 Greek_frigate_Hellas
The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
Flagship of the Revolutionary Hellenic Navy (in service 1825–31)
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1833 1833_Sumatra_earthquake
A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7 and 9.2, rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
Seismic event
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1839
A cyclone slams into south-eastern India.
An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.
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1863 American_Civil_War
American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge: Union forces led by General Ulysses S.
Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg at Missionary Ridge in Tennessee.
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1864
American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
American Civil War spy unit
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1874
The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
1874–1889 American political party
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1876 American_Indian_Wars
American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.
Frontier conflicts in North America, 1609–1890s
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1905 Haakon_VII
Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
King of Norway from 1905 to 1957
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1908
A fire breaks out on SS Sardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour, resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people.
Passenger-cargo ship
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1912 Românul_de_la_Pind
Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians prior to World War II, ceases its publications.
Aromanian Romanian-language newspaper
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1915 Albert_Einstein
Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
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1917 World_War_I
World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
Global conflict from 1914 to 1918
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1918 Vojvodina
Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria-Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
Province of Serbia
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1926 List_of_North_American_tornadoes_and_tornado_outbreaks
The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S.
history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
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1931 Nazi_Party
Wilhelm Schäfer leaves the Nazi Party and hands over the Boxheim Documents to the Frankfurt police.
Far-right political party in Germany (1920–1945)
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1936 Berlin
In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation.
Capital and largest city of Germany
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1941 World_War_II
World War II: HMS Barham is sunk by a German torpedo.
Global conflict (1939–1945)
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1947 McCarthyism
Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
Phenomenon of US political rhetoric after WWII
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1947 Statute_of_Westminster_1931
New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
Law recognising autonomy of British Dominions
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1950 Great_Appalachian_Storm_of_1950
The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950 impacts 22 American states, killing 353 people, injuring over 160, and causing US$66.7 million in damages (1950 dollars).
Extratropical cyclone
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1952 Agatha_Christie
Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End after a premiere in Nottingham, UK.
It will become the longest continuously running play in history.
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1952 Korean_War
Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends in a Chinese victory.
American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
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1958 French_Sudan
French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
French colony in West Africa (1880–1960)
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1960 Mirabal_sisters
The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
Dominican political protestors killed in 1960
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1963 State_funeral_of_John_F._Kennedy
State funeral of John F.
Kennedy; after lying in state at the United States Capitol, a Requiem Mass takes place at Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle and the President is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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1968 Old_Student_House,_Helsinki
The Old Student House in Helsinki, Finland is occupied by a large group of University of Helsinki students.
Former student house of the Student Union of the University of Helsinki
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1970 Yukio_Mishima
In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
Japanese author and coup attempt leader (1925–1970)
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1973 Georgios_Papadopoulos
Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
Greek military dictator (1919–1999)
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1975
Coup of 25 November 1975, a failed military coup d'état by Portuguese far-left activists seeking to hijack the Portuguese transition to democracy to establish a communist regime.
Failed Portuguese far-left military coup
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1975 Suriname
Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
Country in South America
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1977 Ninoy_Aquino
Former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., is found guilty by the Philippine Military Commission No.
2 and is sentenced to death by firing squad. He is later assassinated in 1983.
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1980 Sangoulé_Lamizana
Sangoulé Lamizana, president of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Colonel Saye Zerbo.
President of Upper Volta from 1966 to 1980
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1981 Pope_John_Paul_II
Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005
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1984 Notting_Hill
Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
Area of London, England
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1985 Soviet_Air_Forces
A Soviet Air Force Antonov An-12 is shot down near Menongue in Angola's Cuando Cubango Province, killing 21.
Aerial warfare branch of the Soviet Union's armed forces
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1986 Iran–Contra_affair
Iran–Contra affair: U.S.
Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
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1986 King_Fahd_Causeway
The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.
Road connection between Khobar, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain
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1987 Typhoon_Nina_(1987)
Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 265 km/h (165 mph) and a surge that destroys entire villages.
At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
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1992 Federal_Assembly_(Czechoslovakia)
The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993.
Legislature of Czechoslovakia from 1969 to its dissolution in 1992
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1999 Elián_González
A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
Cuban boy in 2000 international custody dispute
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2000 2000_Baku_earthquake
The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0 kills 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, being the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
6.8 earthquake in Baku, Azerbaijan
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2008 Cyclone_Nisha_(2008)
Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.
Tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean
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2009 2009_Jeddah_floods
Jeddah floods: Freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during an ongoing Hajj pilgrimage.
Three thousand cars are swept away and 122 people perish in the torrents, with 350 others missing.
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