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Year 357

Battle of Strasbourg: Julian, Caesar (deputy emperor) and supreme commander of the Roman army in Gaul, wins an important victory against the Alemanni at Strasbourg (Argentoratum).

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Year 766

Emperor Constantine V humiliates nineteen high-ranking officials, after discovering a plot against him. He executes the leaders, Constantine Podopagouros and his brother Strategios.

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Year 1248

The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.

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Year 1258

Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under, paving the way for its leader, Michael VIII Palaiologos, to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.

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Year 1270

King Louis IX of France dies in Tunis while on the Eighth Crusade.

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Year 1537

The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

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Year 1543

António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans to visit Japan.

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Year 1580

Battle of Alcântara. Spain defeats Portugal.

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Year 1609

Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.

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Year 1630

Portuguese forces are defeated by the Kingdom of Kandy at the Battle of Randeniwela in Sri Lanka.

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Public Holidays Around The World On This Day 33

🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇩🇿 Algeria · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇧🇭 Bahrain · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇧🇯 Benin · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇧🇳 Brunei · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇧🇫 Burkina Faso · Mawlid (estimated)

🇨🇲 Cameroon · Mawlid (estimated)

🇹🇩 Chad · Mawlid (estimated)

🇨🇮 Côte d'Ivoire · Day after Prophet's Birthday

🇩🇯 Djibouti · Prophet Muhammad's Birthday (estimated)

🇪🇬 Egypt · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇫🇯 Fiji · Prophet Mohammed's Birthday (estimated)

🇬🇳 Guinea · Day after Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇬🇾 Guyana · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇮🇳 India · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇮🇩 Indonesia · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇯🇴 Jordan · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇰🇼 Kuwait · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇲🇾 Malaysia · Prophet Muhammad's Birthday (estimated)

🇲🇻 Maldives · Mawlid al-Nabi (estimated)

🇲🇷 Mauritania · Mawlid al-Nabi (estimated)

🇲🇦 Morocco · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇳🇪 Niger · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇳🇬 Nigeria · Eid-el-Mawlid (estimated)

🇴🇲 Oman · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇵🇰 Pakistan · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇸🇳 Senegal · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇹🇿 Tanzania · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇹🇳 Tunisia · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Prophet's Birthday (estimated)

🇺🇾 Uruguay · Independence Day

Birthdays on 25 August 205

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Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 2nd Duke of Alburquerque

b. 1467 – d. 1526

Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 2nd Duke of Alburquerque, Spanish duke (d. 1526)

Innocenzo Cybo

b. 1491 – d. 1550

Innocenzo Cybo, Catholic cardinal (d. 1550)

Ippolito II d'Este

b. 1509 – d. 1572

Ippolito II d'Este, Italian cardinal and statesman (d. 1572)

Ivan the Terrible

b. 1530 – d. 1584

Ivan the Terrible, Russian ruler (d. 1584)

Lady Catherine Grey

b. 1540 – d. 1568

Lady Catherine Grey, English noblewoman (d. 1568)

Philippe van Lansberge

b. 1561 – d. 1632

Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (d. 1632)

Philipp Moritz, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

b. 1605 – d. 1638

Philipp Moritz, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg, German noble (d. 1638)

François de la Chaise

b. 1624 – d. 1709

François de la Chaise, French priest (d. 1709)

John Leverett the Younger

b. 1662 – d. 1724

John Leverett the Younger, American lawyer, academic, and politician (d. 1724)

Louis I of Spain

b. 1707 – d. 1724

Louis I of Spain (d. 1724)

George Stubbs

b. 1724 – d. 1806

George Stubbs, English painter and academic (d. 1806)

Karl Friedrich Bahrdt

b. 1741 – d. 1792

Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and author (d. 1792)

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Deaths on 25 August 116

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Saint Maginus

d. 306

Saint Maginus, Christian hermit and martyr from Tarragona

Gratian

d. 383 (b. 359)

Gratian, Roman emperor (b. 359)

Gennadius of Constantinople

d. 471

Gennadius I, patriarch of Constantinople

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Constantine Podopagouros

d. 766

Constantine Podopagouros, Byzantine official

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Strategios Podopagouros

d. 766

Strategios Podopagouros, Byzantine general

Sisnando Davides

d. 1091

Sisnando Davides, military leader

Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy

d. 1192 (b. 1142)

Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142)

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George Mouzalon

d. 1258

George Mouzalon, regent of the Empire of Nicaea

Louis IX of France

d. 1270 (b. 1214)

Louis IX of France (b. 1214)

Alphonso of Brienne

d. 1270

Alphonso of Brienne (b. c. 1225)

Joan, Countess of Toulouse

d. 1271 (b. 1220)

Joan, Countess of Toulouse (b. 1220)

Thomas de Cantilupe

d. 1282 (b. 1218)

Thomas de Cantilupe, English bishop and saint (b. 1218)

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