Events on 25 April 51
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The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim control over Transcaucasia is solidified and its Islamization begins, while several major Armenian nakharar families lose power and their remnants flee to the Byzantine Empire.
Year 799
After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, pope Leo III flees to the Frankish court of king Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection.
Year 1134
The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
Year 1607
Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
Year 1644
The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
Year 1707
A coalition of England, the Netherlands and Portugal is defeated by a Franco-Spanish army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
Year 1792
Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
Year 1792
"La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
Year 1804
The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
Year 1829
Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
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