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A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

Emperor Claudius: Rome's Surprising Success (+ 12 more historical events on this day!)

10 min • 25 januari 2025

A Daily Dose of History (25 Jan 2025)

Today's historical events:

  • After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
  • In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty.
  • Alfonso II becomes King of Naples.
  • 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.
  • Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
  • São Paulo, Brazil, is founded by Jesuit priests.
  • Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
  • Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
  • 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".
  • The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
  • Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
  • Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
  • The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.

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