WHAT HAPPENED ON 25. AUGUST
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Battle of Strasbourg: Julian, Caesar (deputy emperor) and supreme commander of the Roman army in Gaul, wins an important victory against the Alemanni at Strasbourg (Argentoratum). (25. August 357)

Pulcheria becomes empress of the Byzantine Empire after her brother Theodosius II is killed during an hunting accident. She marries the Illyrian (or Thracian) senator Marcian who is crowned as emperor. (25. August 450)

The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht. (25. August 1248)

Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under, paving the way for its leader, Michael VIII Palaiologos, to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea. (25. August 1258)

The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed. (25. August 1537)

Battle of Alcântara. Spain defeats Portugal. (25. August 1580)

Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. (25. August 1609)

Portuguese forces are defeated by the Kingdom of Kandy at the Battle of Randeniwela in Sri Lanka. (25. August 1630)

Seven Years' War: Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Russian army at the Battle of Zorndorf. (25. August 1758)

James Cook begins his first voyage. (25. August 1768)

Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil. (25. August 1825)

The Belgian Revolution begins. (25. August 1830)

The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax. (25. August 1835)

Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours. (25. August 1875)

France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin. (25. August 1883)

Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet. (25. August 1894)

700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece. (25. August 1898)

The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded. (25. August 1912)

World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost. (25. August 1914)

The United States National Park Service is created. (25. August 1916)