Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 25
This is a list of selected January 25 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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January 25: Tatiana Day (Russia); Burns Night (Scots culture); Feast Day of Gregory of Nazianzus (Eastern Orthodox Church)
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- 1327 – Fourteen-year old Edward III became King of England, but the country was ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
- 1554 – Jesuit missionaries José de Anchieta and Manoel da Nóbrega established a mission at São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga, which grew to become São Paulo, Brazil.
- 1755 – Russian Empress Elizabeth issued a decree ordering the establishment of what is now Lomonosov Moscow State University (main building pictured), today the largest university in Russia.
- 1919 – The Paris Peace Conference, convened to build a lasting peace after World War I, approved the proposal to create the League of Nations.
- 2006 – Three independent observing campaigns announced the discovery of OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, a super-Earth extrasolar planet 21,500 ± 3,300 light years away from Earth near the center of the Milky Way.