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On November 25, -571: Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates the first of his three triumphs for his victory over the Etruscans.

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Featured moment · -571

Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates the first of his three triumphs for his victory over the Etruscans.

Servius Tullius was the legendary sixth king of Rome, and the second of its Etruscan dynasty. He reigned from 578 to 535 BC. Roman and Greek sources describe his servile origins and later marriage to a daughter of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Rome's first Etruscan king, who was assassinated in 579 BC.

People

Born on November 25

Pedri 2002– Spanish footballer (born 2002)
Talen Horton-Tucker 2000– American basketball player (born 2000)
Kaja Juvan 2000– Slovenian tennis player (born 2000)
Dennis Smith Jr. 1997– American basketball player (born 1997)
Danny Kent 1993– British motorcycle racer
Ana Bogdan 1992– Romanian tennis player (born 1992)
Philipp Grubauer 1991– German ice hockey player (born 1991)
Stephanie Hsu 1990– American actress (born 1990)
Nodar Kumaritashvili 1988– Georgian luge athlete (1988–2010)
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Jay Spearing 1988– English footballer (born 1988)
Trevor Booker 1987– American basketball player (born 1987)
Katie Cassidy 1986– American actress (born 1986)
Remona Fransen 1985– Dutch pentathlete
Peter Siddle 1984– Australian cricketer
Gaspard Ulliel 1984– French actor (1984–2022)
Jhulan Goswami 1983– Former Indian cricketer (born 1982)
Michael Garnett 1982– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1982)
Xabi Alonso 1981– Spanish football manager and player (born 1981)

People

Died on November 25

Bernardo Álvarez Afonso Spanish Catholic bishop (1949–2025)
Earl Holliman American actor (1928–2024)
Hal Lindsey American evangelist and Christian writer (1929–2024)
Terry Venables English football player and manager (1943–2023)
Diego Maradona Argentine football player and manager (1960–2020)
Fidel Castro Leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008
Ron Glass American actor (1945–2016)
O'Neil Bell Jamaican boxer
Jeremy Black Royal Navy Admiral (1932–2015)
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Svein Christiansen Norwegian jazz drummer
Lennart Hellsing Swedish children's book writer and poet
Elmo Williams American film/TV editor, producer, director (1913–2015)
Irvin J. Borowsky American publisher and philanthropist
Sitara Devi Indian dancer and actress (1920–2014)
Petr Hapka Czech composer and singer (1944–2014)
Denham Harman American biogerontologist
Lou Brissie American baseball player (1924–2013)
Ricardo Fort Argentine socialite, entrepreneur and television director

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Every November 25 on record

  1. -571 Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates the first of his three triumphs for his victory over the Etruscans.

    King of Rome from c. 578 to 535 BC

    Servius Tullius was the legendary sixth king of Rome, and the second of its Etruscan dynasty. He reigned from 578 to 535 BC. Roman and Greek sources describe his servile origins and later marriage to a daughter of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Rome's first Etruscan king, who was assassinated in 579 BC.

  2. 1034 Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots, dies. His grandson, Donnchad, son of Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.

    King of Alba from 1005 to 1034

    Máel Coluim mac Cinaeda was King of Alba (Scotland) from 1005 until his death in 1034. He was one of the longest-reigning Scottish Kings of that period.

  3. 1120 The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England.

    12th-century shipwreck, killing the heir to the English throne

    The White Ship was a vessel transporting many nobles, including the heir to the English throne, that sank in the English Channel near the Normandy coast off Barfleur during a trip from France to England on 25 November 1120. Out of approximately 300 people aboard, only one – a butcher from Rouen – survived.

  4. 1177 Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.

    King of Jerusalem from 1174 to 1185

    Baldwin IV (1161–1185), known as the Leper King, was the king of Jerusalem from 1174 until his death in 1185. Baldwin ascended to the throne when he was thirteen despite having leprosy. He launched several attempts to curb the increasing power of the Muslim ruler Saladin, though much of his life was marked by infighting amongst the kingdom's nobles.

  5. 1343 A tsunami, caused by an earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.

    Series of water waves

    A tsunami is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and underwater explosions above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami. Unlike normal ocean waves, which are generated by wind, or tides, which are in turn generated by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun, a tsunami is generated by the displacement of water from a large event.

  6. 1400 King Minkhaung I becomes king of Ava.
  7. 1487 Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen Consort of England.
  8. 1491 The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada.
  9. 1510 Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.
  10. 1596 The Cudgel War begins in Finland (at the time part of Sweden), when peasants rebel against the imposition of taxes by the nobility.
  11. 1667 A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
  12. 1678 Trunajaya rebellion: After a long and logistically challenging march, the allied Mataram and Dutch troops successfully assault the rebel stronghold of Kediri.
  13. 1755 King Ferdinand VI of Spain grants royal protection to the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, now known as the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.
  14. 1758 French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh.
  15. 1759 An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000–40,000.
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  1. 1783 American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City, three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
  2. 1795 Partitions of Poland: Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
  3. 1826 The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy.
  4. 1833 A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7 and 9.2, rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.
  5. 1839 A cyclone slams into south-eastern India. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.
  6. 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg at Missionary Ridge in Tennessee.
  7. 1864 American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
  8. 1874 The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
  9. 1876 American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.
  10. 1905 Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
  11. 1908 A fire breaks out on SS Sardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour, resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people.
  12. 1912 Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians prior to World War II, ceases its publications.
  13. 1915 Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
  14. 1917 World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
  15. 1918 Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria-Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.

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