WHAT HAPPENED ON 25. FEBRUARY
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The Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor. (25. February 138)

Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theodoric the Great. (25. February 493)

Khosrau II is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. (25. February 628)

4,000 defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights. (25. February 1336)

Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England. (25. February 1570)

François de Bassompierre, a French courtier, is arrested on Richelieu's orders. (25. February 1631)

Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last invasion of Britain. (25. February 1797)

Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis issues a proclamation at Iași, announcing that he had "the support of a great power" (i.e. Russia). (25. February 1821)

Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire. (25. February 1831)

Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver. (25. February 1836)

Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet. (25. February 1843)

Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers' rights. (25. February 1848)

A Peace conference opens in Paris after the Crimean War. (25. February 1856)

Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull - human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed. (25. February 1866)

Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress. (25. February 1870)

Guangxu Emperor of China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency. (25. February 1875)

J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation. (25. February 1901)

Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. (25. February 1912)

World War I: the Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun. (25. February 1916)

Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax. (25. February 1919)