January 25 in History – What happened on 25 January in Past
✅ Published on January 25th, 2021 in January in History 25 January - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, January 25 is the day number 25 in a given year. January 25 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
January 25 in History - Top Historical Events ⚡
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1533 | Anne Boleyn, already pregnant with future queen Elizabeth,secretly married Henry VIII of England, the second of his six marriages. |
| 1554 | Jesuit missionaries José de Anchieta and Manoel da Nóbrega established a mission at São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga, which grew to become São Paulo, Brazil. |
| 1554 | The city of São Paulo was established in Brazil. |
| 1576 | Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded the settlement of São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda on the western coast of Africa,now known as Luanda. |
| 1704 | English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their native allies began a series of brutal raids against a largely pacific population of Apalachee in Spanish Florida. |
| 1755 | Moscow University was established. |
| 1791 | The British Parliament passed the Constitutional Act 1791, dividing the old province of Quebec into upper and lower Canada. |
| 1824 | Famous Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt was born. |
| 1871 | Caucasian struggler Dharmaguru Shaikh Shamil died in Madina Nagar. |
| 1880 | Renowned social reformer Keshav Chandra Sen started the New Vidyavan or Indian Brahmo Samaj by embracing Christian and Vaishnavi devotion in Brahmo Samaj. |
| 1881 | Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bell formed the Oriental Telephone Company. |
| 1881 | Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell founded the Oriental Telephone Company. |
| 1890 | American journalist Nellie Bly completed a circumnavigation of the globe, inspired by Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, ina then-record 72 days. |
| 1904 | The coal mine explosion in Cheswick, Pennsylvania killed 179 people. |
| 1924 | The first Winter Olympic Games were held in Chamonix, France. |
| 1930 | Three people were killed by a bomb thrown on the road from a bus in Pune, India. |
| 1939 | 10 thousand people died in Chile's Chilean earthquake. |
| 1947 | Famous gangster Al Capone died. |
| 1949 | The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented the first Emmy Awards to honor excellence in the American television industry. |
| 1952 | The first International Film Festival was held in Bombay. |
| 1955 | The United States and Panama signed the Canal Treaty. |
| 1971 | Idi Amin Dada seized power in a military coup d'état from President Milton Obote, beginning eight years of military rule in Uganda. |
| 1971 | Himachal Pradesh became the 18th state of India. |
| 1980 | The famous philanthropist Mother Teresa was awarded the Bharat Ratna. |
| 1983 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honor. |
| 1990 | Avianca Flight 52 ran out of fuel on approach to New York'sJohn F. Kennedy International Airport and crashed into the village ofCove Neck, resulting in the deaths of 73 people. |
| 1993 | Five people were shot outside the Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, resulting in two deaths. |
| 1995 | A team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant XII sounding rocket, which was mistaken for a Trident missile by Russian forces. |
| 1998 | “Grease,” closed at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City. It closed after 1,503 performances. |
| 1998 | Office Depot LPGA tournament is won by Helen Alfredsson. |
| 1998 | Superbowl XXXII: Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, Denvor Broncos beat Green Bay Packers by 31-24. |
| 1999 | Colombia is hit by Earthquake. It has been reported that 1,185 were killed in Armenia. |
| 1999 | An earthquake in Colombia in the last 16 years killed 300 people and injured a thousand people. |
| 2004 | Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed on Mars and rolled into Eagle crater, a small crater onthe Meridiani Planum. |
| 2006 | Three independent observing campaigns announced the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, a super-Earth extrasolar planet 21, 500 ±3, 300 light years away from Earth near the center of the Milky Way. |
| 2010 | China has discovered new traces of melamine in milk products. Thousands of children became ill from melamine in milk in China. |
| 2010 | Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, en route to Addis Ababa,Ethiopia, crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff fromBeirut, Lebanon, killing all 90 people aboard. |
| 2011 | Tens of thousands of people participated in a ‘day of revolt' to protest against the government in Egypt. |
| 2011 | Australia and Japan will play the AFC Asian Cup Final. |
| 2011 | The first wave of the Egyptian revolution began, eventually leading to the removal of Hosni Mubarak after nearly 30 years of rule. |
| 2012 | Iran President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the country is ready to discuss about its nuclear program with other countries. |
| 2013 | UEFA announced plans for EURO 2020. The football championship will be held in 13 different countries. |
| 2014 | National 9/11 Memorial officials have announced that the 9/11 Museum will be opened Mid May - in memory of the victims of the terrorists attack. |
| 2015 | Miss Colombia Polina Vega became Miss Universe 2014. |
Famous Birthdays of January 25 😀:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1864 | Julije Kempf / Author / Croatia |
| 1743 | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi / Author / Germany |
| 1978 | Ahmet Dursun / Footballer / Turkey |
| 1901 | Mildred Dunnock / Actress / United States of America |
| 1908 | Hsieh Tung-min / Politician / China |
| 1973 | Geoff Johns / Author / United States of America |
| 1885 | Kitahara Hakushū / Poet / Japan |
| 1507 | Johannes Oporinus / Printer / Switzerland |
| 1957 | Eskil Erlandsson / Politician / Sweden |
| 1993 | Kasper Larsen / Footballer / Denmark |
| 1860 | Charles Curtis / Politician / United States of America |
| 1957 | Andrew Harris / Physician / United States of America |
| 1739 | Charles François Dumouriez / Politician / France |
| 1917 | Jânio Quadros / Politician / Brazil |
| 1966 | Chet Culver / Politician / United States of America |
| 1813 | J. Marion Sims / Physician / United States of America |
| 1948 | Georgy Shishkin / Painter / Russia |
| 1905 | Margery Sharp / Author / United Kingdom |
| 1956 | Andy Cox / Guitarist / United Kingdom |
| 1964 | Billy Andrade / Golfer / United States of America |
| 1928 | Eduard Shevardnadze / Politician / Georgia |
| 1615 | Govert Flinck / Painter / Netherlands |
| 1938 | Etta James / Singer / United States of America |
| 1922 | Raymond Baxter / Pilot / United Kingdom |
| 1640 | William Cavendish / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1783 | William Colgate / Business Man / United Kingdom |
| 1970 | Stephen Chbosky / Author / United States of America |
| 1915 | Ewan MacColl / Actor / United Kingdom |
| 1886 | Wilhelm Furtwängler / Composer / Germany |
| 1930 | Tanya Savicheva / Child Diarist / Russia |
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Aapane abhi padha: 25 Janwari Ki Pramukh Aitihasik Ghatnayen.
Read in Hindi : 25 जनवरी की प्रमुख ऐतिहासिक घटनाएं