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On April 25, -404: Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.

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Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.

Lysander was a Spartan commander and statesman who was one of the leading military and political leaders of Sparta during the Peloponnesian Wars. He destroyed the Athenian fleet at the Battle of Aegospotami in 405 BC, forcing Athens to capitulate and bringing the Peloponnesian Wars to an end. He then played a key role in Sparta's domination of Greece for the next decade until his death at the Battle of Haliartus.

People

Born on April 25

Dejan Kulusevski 2000– Swedish footballer (born 2000)
Satou Sabally 1998– German-American basketball player (born 1998)
Mack Horton 1996– Australian swimmer
Lewis Baker 1995– English footballer (born 1995)
Packy Hanrahan 1995– Left-handed American ten-pin bowler (born 1995)
Omar McLeod 1994– Jamaican athletics competitor
Maggie Rogers 1994– American musician (born 1994)
Sam Fender 1994– English singer-songwriter (born 1994)
Alex Bowman 1993– American racing driver (born 1993)
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Daniel Norris 1993– American baseball player (born 1993)
Raphaël Varane 1993– French footballer (born 1993)
Jordan Poyer 1991– American football player (born 1991)
Alex Shibutani 1991– American ice dancer (born 1991)
Jean-Éric Vergne 1990– French racing driver (born 1990)
Taylor Walker 1990– Australian rules footballer (born 1990)
Marie-Michèle Gagnon 1989– Canadian alpine skier (born 1989)
Michael van Gerwen 1989– Dutch darts player (born 1989)
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 1989– 11th Panchen Lama as recognized by the 14th Dalai Lama

People

Died on April 25

Virginia Giuffre American and Australian advocate (1983–2025)
Marla Adams American actress (1938–2024)
Laurent Cantet French director, cinematographer and screenwriter (1961–2024)
Harry Belafonte American singer and actor (1927–2023)
John Havlicek American basketball player (1940–2019)
Madeeha Gauhar Pakistani actress, playwright, theater director and women's rights activist
Tom Lewis New South Wales Premier
Jim Fanning American-Canadian baseball player, manager, and executive (1927–2015)
Matthias Kuhle German geographer (1948–2015)
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Don Mankiewicz American screenwriter (1922–2015)
Mike Phillips American basketball player (1956–2015)
Dan Heap Canadian politician and Anglican priest (1925–2014)
William Judson Holloway Jr. American judge
Earl Morrall American football player (1934–2014)
Tito Vilanova Spanish football player and manager (1968–2014)
Stefanie Zweig 20th and 21st-century German writer
Brian Adam Scottish politician (1948–2013)
Jacob Avshalomov Composer and conductor

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Every April 25 on record

  1. -404 Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion.

    Spartan military and political leader (died 395 BC)

    Lysander was a Spartan commander and statesman who was one of the leading military and political leaders of Sparta during the Peloponnesian Wars. He destroyed the Athenian fleet at the Battle of Aegospotami in 405 BC, forcing Athens to capitulate and bringing the Peloponnesian Wars to an end. He then played a key role in Sparta's domination of Greece for the next decade until his death at the Battle of Haliartus.

  2. 775 The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim control over the South Caucasus is solidified and its Islamization begins, while several major Armenian nakharar families lose power and their remnants flee to the Byzantine Empire.

    Battle in AD 755 between the Abbasid Caliphate and rebelling Armenian forces

    The Battle of Bagrevand was fought on 25 April 775, in the plains of Bagrevand, between the forces of the Armenian princes who had rebelled against the Abbasid Caliphate and the caliphal army. The battle resulted in a crushing Abbasid victory, with the death of the main Armenian leaders. The Mamikonian family's power in particular was almost extinguished.

  3. 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.

    State of having one's appearance injured or changed

    Disfigurement is the state of having one's appearance deeply and persistently harmed medically, such as from a disease, birth defect, or wound. General societal attitudes towards disfigurement have varied greatly across cultures and over time, with cultures possessing strong social stigma against it often causing psychological distress to disfigured individuals. Alternatively, many societies have regarded some forms of disfigurement in a medical, scientific context where someone having ill will against the disfigured is viewed as anathema.

  4. 1464 A Yorkist army under the Baron Montagu defeats a Lancastrian army under the Duke of Somerset in the battle of Hedgeley Moor during the Wars of the Roses.

    Cadet branch of the House of Plantagenet

    The House of York was a cadet branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet. It fought with the House of Lancaster, another cadet branch of the House of Plantagenet, for the English crown in the second half of the 15th century. The differences ultimately led to the Wars of the Roses.

  5. 1607 Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.

    c. 1566/1568–1648 war in Habsburg Netherlands

    The Eighty Years' War or Dutch Revolt was an armed conflict in the Habsburg Netherlands between disparate groups of rebels and the Spanish government. The causes of the war included the Reformation, centralisation, excessive taxation, and the rights and privileges of the Dutch nobility and cities.

  6. 1644 Transition from Ming to Qing: The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
  7. 1707 A coalition of Britain, the Netherlands and Portugal is defeated by a Franco-Spanish army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
  8. 1792 Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
  9. 1792 "La Marseillaise" (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
  10. 1808 Dano-Swedish War of 1808–1809: The Battle of Trangen takes place at Trangen in Flisa, Hedemarkens Amt, between Swedish and Norwegian troops.
  11. 1829 Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the British Empire.
  12. 1846 Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.
  13. 1849 The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
  14. 1859 British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
  15. 1862 American Civil War: Forces under U.S. Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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  1. 1864 American Civil War: In the Battle of Marks' Mills, a force of 8,000 Confederate soldiers attacks 1,800 Union soldiers and a large number of wagon teamsters, killing or wounding 1,500 Union combatants.
  2. 1882 French and Vietnamese troops clash in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri Rivière seizes the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
  3. 1892 Véry bombing during the Ère des attentats (1892–1894).
  4. 1898 Spanish–American War: The United States Congress declares that a state of war between the U.S. and Spain has existed since April 21, when an American naval blockade of the Spanish colony of Cuba began.
  5. 1901 New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
  6. 1915 World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
  7. 1916 Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
  8. 1920 At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
  9. 1933 Nazi Germany issues the Law Against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limiting the number of Jewish students able to attend public schools and universities.
  10. 1938 U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
  11. 1944 The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
  12. 1945 World War II: United States and Soviet reconnaissance troops meet in Torgau and Strehla along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two. This would be later known as Elbe Day.
  13. 1945 World War II: Liberation Day (Italy): The National Liberation Committee for Northern Italy calls for a general uprising against the German occupation and the Italian Social Republic.
  14. 1945 United Nations Conference on International Organization: Founding negotiations for the United Nations begin in San Francisco.
  15. 1945 World War II: The last German troops retreat from Finnish soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military actions of the Second World War end in Finland.

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