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On October 25, 473: Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire.

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Featured moment · 473

Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire.

Leo I, also known as the Thracian, was Eastern Roman emperor from 457 to 474. He was a native of Dacia Aureliana near historic Thrace. He is sometimes surnamed with the epithet the Great, probably to distinguish him from his young grandson and co-augustus Leo II.

People

Born on October 25

Princess Elisabeth 2001– Heir apparent to the Belgian throne (born 2001)
Dominik Szoboszlai 2000– Hungarian footballer (born 2000)
Vincent Zhou 2000– American figure skater (born 2000)
Romeo Langford 1999– American basketball player (born 1999)
Juan Soto 1998– Dominican baseball player (born 1998)
Lee Know 1998– South Korean singer and dancer (born 1998)
Federico Chiesa 1997– Italian footballer (born 1997)
PJ Dozier 1996– American basketball player (born 1996)
Conchita Campbell 1995– Canadian actress
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Jock Landale 1995– Australian basketball player (born 1995)
Patrick McCaw 1995– American basketball player (born 1995)
Richard Jouve 1994– French cross-country skier (born 1994)
Jefferson Lerma 1994– Colombian footballer (born 1994)
Matteo Lodo 1994– Italian rower (born 1994)
Gor Minasyan 1994– Armenian weightlifter (born 1994)
Ray Robson 1994– American chess grandmaster (born 1994)
Isaiah Austin 1993– American professional basketball player
Iván Garcia 1993– Mexican diver (born 1993)

People

Died on October 25

Satish Shah Indian actor and comedian (1951–2025)
Rolf Dupuy French anarchist and historian (1946–2025)
Phil Lesh American musician (1940–2024)
Kim Soo-mi South Korean actress (1949–2024)
Dilip Parikh Indian politician and industrialist (1937–2019)
Thomas Keating American Cistercian monk and teacher of centering prayer
Carlos Alberto Torres Brazilian footballer and manager (1944–2016)
Bob Hoover American aviator (1922–2016)
David Cesarani British historian (1956-2015)
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Lisa Jardine British historian (1944–2015)
Cecil Lolo South African soccer player
Flip Saunders American basketball player and coach (1955–2015)
Jack Bruce Scottish musician (1943–2014)
Carlos Morales Troncoso Dominican Republic politician (1940–2014)
Ron Ackland NZ RL coach and former NZ international rugby league footballer
Arthur Danto American art critic and philosopher (1924–2013)
Nicholas Hunt Royal Navy Admiral (1930–2013)
Hal Needham American stunt performer and film director (1931–2013)

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Every October 25 on record

  1. 473 Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire.

    Eastern Roman emperor from 457 to 474

    Leo I, also known as the Thracian, was Eastern Roman emperor from 457 to 474. He was a native of Dacia Aureliana near historic Thrace. He is sometimes surnamed with the epithet the Great, probably to distinguish him from his young grandson and co-augustus Leo II.

  2. 1147 Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.

    Part of the Second Crusade

    The second Battle of Dorylaeum took place near Dorylaeum in October 1147 during the Second Crusade. The battle consisted of a series of encounters over several days. The German Crusader forces of Conrad III were defeated by the Seljuk Turks led by Sultan Mesud I.

  3. 1147 Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights conquer Lisbon.

    1147 Second Crusade battle

    The siege of Lisbon, from 1 July to 25 October 1147, was the military action against the Almoravid dynasty that brought the city of Lisbon under the definitive control of the new Christian power, the Kingdom of Portugal.

  4. 1415 Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his lightly armoured infantry and archers, defeats the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt.

    1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War

    The Battle of Agincourt was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place on 25 October 1415 near Azincourt, in northern France. The unexpected victory of the vastly outnumbered English troops over the French army boosted English morale, crippled France, and began a new period of English dominance in the war.

  5. 1616 Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.

    Dutch sailor and explorer (1580–1621)

    Dirk Hartog was a 17th-century Dutch mariner and explorer. Dirk Hartog's expedition was the second European group to land in Australia and the first to leave behind an artefact to record his visit, the Hartog Plate. His name is sometimes alternatively spelled Dirck Hartog or Dierick Hartochsz.

  6. 1747 War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.
  7. 1760 King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.
  8. 1809 Golden Jubilee of George III is celebrated in Britain as he begins the fiftieth year of his reign.
  9. 1812 War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.
  10. 1822 Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.
  11. 1854 The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade.
  12. 1861 The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
  13. 1868 The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
  14. 1875 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ minor, Op. 23 premieres in Boston, Massachusetts, with Benjamin Johnson Lang as conductor and Hans von Bülow as soloist.
  15. 1911 The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Fengshan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps.
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  1. 1917 Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
  2. 1920 After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
  3. 1924 The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
  4. 1927 The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
  5. 1932 George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party.
  6. 1940 Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
  7. 1944 World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
  8. 1944 World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
  9. 1944 World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
  10. 1945 Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.
  11. 1949 The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.
  12. 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
  13. 1968 A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people.
  14. 1968 Soyuz 2 is launched.
  15. 1971 The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.

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