# What happened on October 25 in history?

**Date:** October 25  
**Events recorded:** 43  
**Years spanned:** 473 – 2023  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/october/25/

---

## Featured Event

**2023** — A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 people are killed and 13 more injured.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Lewiston_shootings)

---

## Events on this date

- **473** — Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_I_(emperor)))
- **1147** — Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dorylaeum_(1147)))
- **1147** — Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights conquer Lisbon. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Lisbon))
- **1415** — Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt))
- **1616** — Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Hartog))
- **1747** — War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Cape_Finisterre))
- **1760** — King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III))
- **1809** — Golden Jubilee of George III is celebrated in Britain as he begins the fiftieth year of his reign. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Jubilee_of_George_III))
- **1812** — War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_United_States_(1797)))
- **1822** — Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_siege_of_Missolonghi))
- **1854** — The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Balaclava))
- **1861** — The Toronto Stock Exchange is created. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Stock_Exchange))
- **1868** — The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uspenski_Cathedral))
- **1875** — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ minor, Op. 23 premieres in Boston, Massachusetts, with Benjamin Johnson Lang as conductor and Hans von Bülow as soloist. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky))
- **1911** — The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Fengshan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_Revolution))
- **1917** — Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates))
- **1920** — After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_MacSwiney))
- **1924** — The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviev_letter))
- **1927** — The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Principessa_Mafalda))
- **1932** — George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lansbury))
- **1940** — Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis_Sr.))
- **1944** — World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1944** — World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tang_(SS-306)))
- **1944** — World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf))
- **1945** — Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Taiwan))
- **1949** — The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Guningtou))
- **1962** — Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis))
- **1968** — A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_F-27))
- **1968** — Soyuz 2 is launched. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_2))
- **1971** — The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China))
- **1973** — Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_339))
- **1980** — Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Convention_on_the_Civil_Aspects_of_International_Child_Abduction))
- **1983** — The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Grenada))
- **1989** — The first leg of the 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is held at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Superta%C3%A7a_C%C3%A2ndido_de_Oliveira))
- **1990** — The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_Soviet_Socialist_Republic))
- **1995** — A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Fox_River_Grove_bus%E2%80%93train_collision))
- **1997** — After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo_Civil_War_(1997%E2%80%931999)))
- **1999** — A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learjet_35))
- **2001** — Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft))
- **2009** — The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2009_Baghdad_bombings))
- **2010** — Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Merapi))
- **2010** — A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Mentawai_earthquake_and_tsunami))
- **2023** — A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 people are killed and 13 more injured. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Lewiston_shootings))

---

## Notable births on October 25

- **2001** — **Princess Elisabeth** — Duchess of Brabant ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Elisabeth%2C_Duchess_of_Brabant))
- **2000** — **Dominik Szoboszlai** — Hungarian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominik_Szoboszlai))
- **2000** — **Vincent Zhou** — American figure skater ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Zhou))
- **1999** — **Romeo Langford** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_Langford))
- **1998** — **Juan Soto** — Dominican baseball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Soto))
- **1998** — **Lee Know** — South Korean singer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Know))
- **1997** — **Federico Chiesa** — Italian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Chiesa))
- **1996** — **PJ Dozier** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PJ_Dozier))
- **1995** — **Conchita Campbell** — Canadian actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conchita_Campbell))
- **1995** — **Jock Landale** — Australian basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock_Landale))

---

## Notable deaths on October 25

- **2025** — **Satish Shah** — Indian actor and comedian (born 1951) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satish_Shah))
- **2025** — **Rolf Dupuy** — anarchist and historian of the anarchist movement in France and Spain (born 1946) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Dupuy))
- **2024** — **Phil Lesh** — American bassist (born 1940) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Lesh))
- **2024** — **Kim Soo-mi** — South Korean actress (born 1949) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Soo-mi))
- **2019** — **Dilip Parikh** — Indian politician (born 1937) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilip_Parikh))
- **2018** — **Thomas Keating** — American Trappist monk and a principal developer of Centering Prayer (born 1923) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Keating))
- **2016** — **Carlos Alberto Torres** — Brazilian football player and manager (born 1944) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Alberto_Torres))
- **2016** — **Bob Hoover** — USAF, Test, and Airshow pilot (born 1922) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hoover))
- **2015** — **David Cesarani** — English historian and author (born 1956) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cesarani))
- **2015** — **Lisa Jardine** — English historian, author, and academic (born 1944) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Jardine))

---

## About this page

This is a machine-readable Markdown summary of [thisday.info/events/october/25/](https://thisday.info/events/october/25/).  
Historical data is sourced from [Wikipedia/Wikimedia](https://www.wikipedia.org) under [CC BY-SA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).  
Editorial framing and site content © thisday.info.