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October 25

October 25 carries 10 recorded events spanning between 1616 and 2010. 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.

♏ZodiacScorpio ◈BirthstoneOpal ❀Birth flowerMarigold

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed July 13, 2026

What happened on October 25?

October 25 is the 298th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1616 and 2010. Famous people born on October 25 include Pablo Picasso, Évariste Galois and Wendy Hall.

The shape of the day

25 years on from Microsoft, October 25 is a date with an anniversary worth pausing on. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where conflict is a recurring thread.

Scorpio is the sign for October 25 — read more on the Scorpio page, or see October's birthstone & birth flower.

Released on October 25

Movies, games, albums & shows

2024

  • Game Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
  • Game Finding Frankie
  • Game Miraculous: Paris Under Siege
  • Game Rogue Flight

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1616

    Dirk Hartog

    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.

  2. 1760

    George III

    King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.

  3. 1875

    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    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.

  4. 1920

    Terence MacSwiney

    After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.

  5. 1927

    SS Principessa Mafalda

    The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.

  6. 1944

    USS Tang (SS-306)

    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.

  7. 1944

    World War II

    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. 1971

    China

    The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.

  9. 2001

    Microsoft

    Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.

  10. 2010

    Mount Merapi

    Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people.

Famous birthday twins

Born on October 25

Pablo Picasso

b. 1881

Spanish painter and sculptor

Évariste Galois

b. 1811

French mathematician and theorist

Wendy Hall

b. 1952

English computer scientist, mathematician, and academic

Jorge Batlle

b. 1927

Ibáñez, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Uruguay

Marcellin Berthelot

b. 1827

French chemist and politician

Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren

b. 1760

German historian

Jan Stanisław Sapieha

b. 1589

Polish-Lithuanian noble

Katy Perry

b. 1984

American singer-songwriter and actress

Deaths

  • 2014Carlos Morales Troncoso
  • 1995Bobby Riggs
  • 1973Abebe Bikila
  • 1945Robert Ley
  • 1920Terence MacSwiney
  • 1400Geoffrey Chaucer

Holidays & observances

  • —Armed Forces Day (Romania)
  • —Christian feast day: Bernat Calbó (Bernard of Calvo)
  • —Christian feast day: Pope Boniface I
  • —Christian feast day: Canna
  • —Christian feast day: Blessed Carlo Gnocchi
  • —Christian feast day: Crysanthus and Daria (Western Christianity)
  • —Christian feast day: Crispin and Crispinian
  • —Christian feast day: Fructus

Historical facts, event summaries, and biographical lines above are adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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