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On January 25, 41: After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.

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Featured moment · 41

After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.

AD 41 (XLI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of C. Caesar Augustus Germanicus and Cn.

People

Born on January 25

Lil Mosey 2002– American rapper (born 2002)
Elisabetta Cocciaretto 2001– Italian tennis player (born 2001)
Noah Hanifin 1997– American ice hockey player (born 1997)
Mohamed Hany 1996– Egyptian footballer (born 1996)
Seunghee 1996– South Korean singer (born 1996)
Adama Traoré 1996– Spanish footballer
Ariana DeBose 1991– American actress (born 1991)
Ahmed Hegazi 1991– Egyptian footballer (born 1991)
Apostolos Giannou 1990– Association football player (born 1990)
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Lee Jun-ho 1990– South Korean singer and actor (born 1990)
Tatiana Golovin 1988– French tennis player (born 1988)
Ryota Ozawa 1988– Japanese actor
Maria Kirilenko 1987– Russian tennis player (born 1987)
Chris O'Grady 1986– English footballer (born 1986)
Brent Celek 1985– American football player and executive (born 1985)
Hwang Jung-eum 1985– South Korean actress and singer (born 1984)
Tina Karol 1985– Ukrainian singer (born 1985)
Acie Law 1985– American basketball player (born 1985)

People

Died on January 25

Gloria Romero Filipino actress and model (1933–2025)
Sanath Nishantha Sri Lankan politician (1975–2024)
Neagu Djuvara Romanian historian (1916–2018)
Stephen P. Cohen American academic
Robert Garcia American politician (1933-2017)
John Hurt English actor (1940–2017)
Harry Mathews American author
Marcel Prud'homme Canadian politician
Mary Tyler Moore American actress and television producer (1936–2017)
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John Leggett American writer
Richard McBrien American Catholic priest (1936–2015)
Bill Monbouquette American baseball player (1936–2015)
Demis Roussos Greek musician (1946–2015)
Arthur Doyle American musician
Heini Halberstam British mathematician
Dave Strack American college sports coach and administrator (1923–2014)
Morrie Turner American cartoonist
Martial Asselin Canadian politician

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Every January 25 on record

  1. 41 After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.

    Calendar year

    AD 41 (XLI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of C. Caesar Augustus Germanicus and Cn.

  2. 750 In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty.

    Part of the Abbasid Revolution, 750 AD

    The Battle of the Zab, also referred to in scholarly contexts as Battle of the Great Zāb River, took place on January 25, 750, on the banks of the Great Zab in what is now the modern country of Iraq. It spelled the end of the Umayyad Caliphate and the rise of the Abbasid Caliphate, which would last from 750 to 1258.

  3. 1327 Fourteen-year-old Edward III ascends the throne of England after his father the king is forced to abdicate by Queen Isabella and her lover, Roger Mortimer.

    King of England from 1327 to 1377

    Edward III, also known as Edward of Windsor before accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring royal authority after the disastrous and unorthodox reign of his father, Edward II. Edward III transformed the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe.

  4. 1348 A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.

    Earthquake in northeastern Italy

    The 1348 Friuli earthquake, centered in the South Alpine region of Friuli, was felt across Europe on 25 January. The earthquake hit in the same year that the Great Plague ravaged Italy. According to contemporary sources, it caused considerable damage to structures; churches and houses collapsed and villages were destroyed.

  5. 1479 The Treaty of Constantinople ends the 16-year-long First Ottoman–Venetian War.

    1479 treaty between Venice and the Ottoman Empire

    The Treaty of Constantinople was signed on 25 January 1479, which officially ended the sixteen-year-long war between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. The Venetians were forced to hand over Scutari in Albania and the island of Lemnos and the Mani Peninsula in Greece; and acknowledge the loss of Negroponte (Euboea) and Croia. The treaty allowed a full restoration of Venetian trading privileges in the Ottoman Empire against an annual flat tax of 10,000 ducats, as well as a 100,000 ducats in arrears owed by Venetian citizens to the Porte.

  6. 1494 Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
  7. 1515 Coronation of Francis I of France takes place at Reims Cathedral, where the new monarch is anointed with the oil of Clovis and girt with the sword of Charlemagne.
  8. 1533 Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
  9. 1554 São Paulo, Brazil, is founded by Jesuit priests.
  10. 1573 Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
  11. 1575 Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
  12. 1585 Walter Raleigh is knighted, shortly after renaming North America region "Virginia", in honor of Elizabeth I, Queen of England, sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen".
  13. 1650 As part of the purges following the Great Potosí Mint Fraud of 1649 Francisco Gómez de la Rocha, a rich former corregidor of Potosí, is executed.
  14. 1704 The Apalachee massacre: A combined British and Muscogee force from the Province of Carolina destroys the main fortified mission of Ayubale, breaking Spain's hold on Spanish Florida.
  15. 1787 Shays' Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
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  1. 1791 The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
  2. 1792 The London Corresponding Society is founded.
  3. 1819 University of Virginia chartered by Commonwealth of Virginia, with Thomas Jefferson one of its founders.
  4. 1858 The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
  5. 1879 The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
  6. 1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
  7. 1890 Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
  8. 1909 Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
  9. 1915 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
  10. 1917 Sinking of the SS Laurentic after hitting two German mines off the coast of northwest Ireland.
  11. 1918 The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia.
  12. 1918 The Finnish Defence Forces (The White Guards) are established as the official army of independent Finland, and Baron C. G. E. Mannerheim is appointed its Commander-in-Chief.
  13. 1924 The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
  14. 1932 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins the defense of Harbin.
  15. 1932 Alt Llobregat insurrection suppressed in Central Catalonia, Spain.

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