This Day in History
Today: November 25, 2025
-571
Servius Tullius, king of Rome, celebrates the first of his three triumphs for his victory over the Etruscans.[1]
1034
Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots, dies. His grandson, Donnchad, son of Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
1120
The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England.[2]
1177
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Raynald of Châtillon defeat Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard.[3]
1343
A tsunami, caused by an earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.
1400
King Minkhaung I becomes king of Ava.[4]
1487
Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England.[5]
1491
The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada.
1510
Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.
1596
The Cudgel War begins in Finland (at the time part of Sweden), when peasants rebel against the imposition of taxes by the nobility.[6]
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