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On August 25, 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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Featured moment · 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.

Constantine V was Byzantine emperor from 741 to 775. His reign saw a consolidation of Byzantine security from external threats. As an able military leader, Constantine took advantage of civil war in the Muslim world to make limited offensives on the Arab frontier.

People

Born on August 25

Kimi Antonelli 2006– Italian racing driver (born 2006)
Evann Girault 2004– French-Nigerien sabre fencer (born 2004)
Rebeka Jančová 2003– Slovak alpine skier (born 2003)
Nicki Nicole 2000– Argentine rapper and singer-songwriter (born 2000)
China Anne McClain 1998– American actress and singer (born 1998)
Ong Seong-wu 1995– South Korean singer and actor (born 1995)
Dowoon 1995– South Korean musician (born 1995)
Edmunds Augstkalns 1994– Latvian ice hockey player
Caris LeVert 1994– American basketball player (born 1994)
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Miyabi Natsuyaki 1992– Japanese singer (born 1992)
Ricardo Rodriguez 1992– Swiss footballer (born 1992)
Max Muncy 1990– American baseball player (born 1990)
Hiram Mier 1989– Mexican footballer (born 1989)
Jaakko Ohtonen 1989– Finnish actor (born 1989)
Angela Park 1988– Brazilian-American professional golfer (born 1988)
Giga Chikadze 1988– Georgian mixed martial artist (born 1988)
Stacey Farber 1987– Canadian actress (born 1987)
Velimir Jovanović 1987– Serbian footballer

People

Died on August 25

Salim Al-Huss Lebanese statesman (1929–2024)
Mable John American blues singer (1930–2022)
Ferdinand Piëch Austrian industrialist (1937–2019), head of Volkswagen
John McCain American politician and naval officer (1936–2018)
Rich Piana American bodybuilder and internet personality (1970–2017)
Marvin Kaplan American actor (1927–2016)
José María Benegas Spanish politician (1948–2015)
Francis Sejersted Norwegian history professor
William Greaves American documentary filmmaker
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Marcel Masse Canadian politician (1936–2014)
Nico M. M. Nibbering Dutch chemist and mass spectrometrist (1938–2014)
Uziah Thompson Jamaican musician (1936–2014)
Enrique Zileri Peruvian journalist and publisher (born 1931)
Ciril Bergles Slovene poet, essayist and translator
António Borges Portuguese economist and banker (1949 – 2013)
William Froug American screenwriter (1922–2013)
Liu Fuzhi Chinese politician (1917–2013)
Raghunath Panigrahi Musical artist

Timeline

Every August 25 on record

  1. 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.

    Byzantine emperor from 741 to 775

    Constantine V was Byzantine emperor from 741 to 775. His reign saw a consolidation of Byzantine security from external threats. As an able military leader, Constantine took advantage of civil war in the Muslim world to make limited offensives on the Arab frontier.

  2. 1248 The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht.

    Municipality in Overijssel, Netherlands

    Ommen is a municipality and a Hanseatic city in the eastern Netherlands. It is located in the Vecht valley of the Salland region in Overijssel. Historical records first name Ommen in the early 12th century and it was officially founded as a city in 1248.

  3. 1258 Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under Michael VIII Palaiologos, paving the way for its leader to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.

    Byzantine official (c. 1220 – 1258)

    George Mouzalon was a high official of the Empire of Nicaea under Theodore II Laskaris.

  4. 1270 Philip III, although suffering from dysentery, becomes King of France following the death of his father Louis IX, during the Eighth Crusade. His uncle, Charles I of Naples, is forced to begin peace negotiations with Muhammad I al-Mustansir, Hafsid Sultan of Tunis.

    King of France from 1270 to 1285

    Philip III, called the Bold, was King of France from 1270 until his death in 1285. His father, Louis IX, died in Tunis during the Eighth Crusade. Philip, who was accompanying him, returned to France and was anointed king at Reims in 1271.

  5. 1537 The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

    Oldest regiment of the British Army

    The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) is a reserve regiment in the British Army's Land Special Operations Force. Incorporated by royal charter in 1537 by King Henry VIII, it is the oldest regiment in the British Army and is considered the second-oldest military unit in the world. Today, it is also a charity whose purpose is to attend to the "better defence of the realm", primarily through supporting the HAC regiment.

  6. 1543 António Mota and a few companions become the first Europeans to visit Japan.
  7. 1580 War of the Portuguese Succession: Spanish victory at the Battle of Alcântara brings about the Iberian Union.
  8. 1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
  9. 1630 Portuguese forces are defeated by the Kingdom of Kandy at the Battle of Randeniwela in Sri Lanka.
  10. 1758 Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf.
  11. 1814 War of 1812: On the second day of the Burning of Washington, British troops torch the Library of Congress, United States Treasury, Department of War, and other public buildings.
  12. 1823 American fur trapper Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear while on an expedition in South Dakota.
  13. 1825 The Thirty-Three Orientals declare the independence of Uruguay from Brazil.
  14. 1830 The Belgian Revolution begins.
  15. 1835 The first Great Moon Hoax article is published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon.
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  1. 1875 Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.
  2. 1883 France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
  3. 1894 Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
  4. 1904 Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Liaoyang begins.
  5. 1912 The Kuomintang is founded for the first time in Peking.
  6. 1914 World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
  7. 1914 World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
  8. 1916 The United States National Park Service is created.
  9. 1920 Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.
  10. 1933 The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.
  11. 1933 Nazi Germany and the Zionist Federation of Germany signed the Haavara Agreement. The agreement was a major factor in breaking the anti-Nazi boycott of 1933 and facilitated Jewish emigration from Germany and into British Mandate of Palestine.
  12. 1939 The Irish Republican Army carries out the 1939 Coventry bombing in which five civilians were killed.
  13. 1939 The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.
  14. 1940 World War II: The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal Air Force.
  15. 1941 World War II: Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran: The United Kingdom and the Soviet Union jointly stage an invasion of the Imperial State of Iran.

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