Events on 25 June 38
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In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine.
Year 1530
At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
Year 1658
Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Rio Nuevo during the Anglo-Spanish War.
Year 1678
Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is the first woman awarded a doctorate of philosophy when she graduates from the University of Padua.
Year 1786
Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
Year 1876
Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
Year 1900
The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
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Birthdays on 25 June 211
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Deaths on 25 June 115
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