Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 25
October 25: Republic Day in Kazakhstan (1990); Retrocession Day in Taiwan; Armed Forces Day in Romania.
- 1147 – Reconquista: Forces under King Afonso I of Portugal captured Lisbon from the Moors after a four-month siege in what would be their only success during the Second Crusade.
- 1616 – The Dutch sailing ship Eendracht reached Shark Bay on the western coastline of Australia, as documented on the Hartog Plate etched by explorer Dirk Hartog.
- 1875 – The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Tchaikovsky (pictured) is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist.
- 1922 – The Third Dáil adopted the Constitution of the Irish Free State, based on the requirements of the Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the first independent Irish state to be recognised by the British.
- 1971 – The UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 2758, replacing the Republic of China with the People's Republic of China as China's representative at the United Nations.
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