WHAT HAPPENED ON 25. JULY
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American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement. (25. July 1783)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550). (25. July 1788)

The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French Royal Family is harmed. (25. July 1792)

The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid. (25. July 1795)

Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain). (25. July 1797)

At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha. (25. July 1799)

War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18.00; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie. (25. July 1814)

Costa Rica annexes Guanacaste from Nicaragua. (25. July 1824)

The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London. (25. July 1837)

Joaquin Murrieta, the famous Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed. (25. July 1853)

American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery. (25. July 1861)

The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank. (25. July 1866)

Wyoming becomes a United States territory. (25. July 1868)

The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869). (25. July 1869)

The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time. (25. July 1893)

The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship. (25. July 1894)

After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico. (25. July 1898)

Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it. (25. July 1908)

Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes. (25. July 1909)

RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British military aviator to earn the Victoria Cross, for defeating three German two-seat observation aircraft in one day, over the Western Front. (25. July 1915)