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2025

2025 (MMXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2025th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 25th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2020s decade.

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Notable deaths

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Decade

2020s

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Defining events of 2025

  1. 2025 Rory McIlroy wins the Masters Tournament, becoming just the sixth person to complete the Grand Slam in golf.

    Northern Irish golfer (born 1989)

    Rory Daniel McIlroy is a Northern Irish professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and the European Tour. He is a former world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking and has spent over 100 weeks in that position during his career. A six-time major champion, he is the sixth man to complete the modern career grand slam—after Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods—and the first European to do so.

  2. 2025 Liberation Day tariffs: U.S. President Donald Trump announces sweeping worldwide tariffs.

    2025 economic policy by Donald Trump

    United States president Donald Trump announced a broad package of import duties on April 2, 2025—a date he called "Liberation Day". In a White House Rose Garden ceremony, Trump signed Executive Order 14257, Regulating Imports With a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices That Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits. This order declared a national emergency over the United States' trade deficit and invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to authorize sweeping tariffs on foreign imports.

  3. 2025 At least 26 people are killed in a terrorist attack on a group of tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba claimed responsibility for the attack.

    Islamist terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir

    The 2025 Pahalgam attack, also referred to as the 2025 Pahalgam massacre, was an Islamist terrorist attack on tourists by three armed terrorists near Pahalgam in India's Jammu and Kashmir in which 26 civilians were killed on 22 April 2025. The militants targeted Hindu tourists, though a Christian tourist and a local Muslim pony ride operator were also killed. The attackers, armed with M4 carbines and AK-47s, entered the Baisaran Valley, a popular tourist spot, through the surrounding forests.

  4. 2025 A mass stabbing at a school in Nantes, France, leaves one person dead and three others wounded.

    Mass stabbing in Nantes, France

    On 24 April 2025, a teenage girl was killed and three students were wounded in a mass stabbing at a private secondary school, Our Lady of All Helps High School in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France. The suspected attacker was a 15-year-old male student and was arrested by law enforcement at the scene, after being restrained by a teacher.

  5. 2025 A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.

    Vehicle ramming attack in British Columbia, Canada

    On April 26, 2025, a vehicle-ramming attack took place shortly after the Lapu-Lapu Day festival, a public celebration of Filipino heritage in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The attack left 11 people dead and at least 32 more injured, making it the deadliest attack in Vancouver's history. It stands as the deadliest vehicle-ramming incident in Canadian history, alongside the 2018 Toronto van attack.

  6. 2025 The impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea in response to his declaration of martial law is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending his presidency.

    2024 South Korean charging of president

    On 14 December 2024, Yoon Suk Yeol, then president of South Korea, was impeached by the National Assembly following the passage of an impeachment bill with 204 of the 300 members voting in favor. This action came in response to Yoon's declaration of martial law on 3 December 2024.

  7. 2025 US president Donald Trump meets with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Alaska, the first such summit since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
  8. 2025 A landslide in the Darfur region of Sudan kills over 1000 people. 26
  9. 2025 An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan kills over 1400 people. 25
  10. 2025 At least 16 people are killed, including one gunman, and 43 injured in a mass shooting during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in the deadliest terror incident in Australia.

Arrivals

Born in 2025

Athena Mapelli Mozzi 2025– British princess (born 1988)
Athena Mapelli Mozzi 2025– British princess (born 1988)
Athena Mapelli Mozzi 2025– British princess (born 1988)
Athena Mapelli Mozzi 2025– British princess (born 1988)

Farewells

Died in 2025

Val Kilmer American actor (1959–2025)
Johnny Tillotson American singer-songwriter (1938–2025)
Leo Beenhakker Dutch football coach (1942–2025)
Ted Kotcheff Canadian film and television director (1931–2025)
Peter Lovesey British writer (1936–2025)
Mike Berry British singer (1942–2025)
Pilita Corrales Filipina singer (1939–2025)
Richard Armitage American diplomat and government official (1945–2025)
Mario Vargas Llosa Peruvian novelist and writer (1936–2025)
Jean Marsh English actress (1934–2025)
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009 (1939–2025)
Wink Martindale American DJ and television personality (1933–2025)

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