What happened on April 25?

Events:

- 1607 - The Dutch fleet destroyed the Spanish fleet in the Eighty Years War.

- 1707 - The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army in the War of the Spanish Succession.

- 1792 - The first person ever to be executed by the guillotine.

- 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Mark's Mills

- 1898 - The United States declared war on the Spanish: Spanish-American War

- 1915 - The Battle of Gallipoli: World War I

- 1966 - The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.

- 1983 - Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.

- 1986 - Mswati II is crowned king of Swaziland.

Birthdays:

- 1214 - King Louis IX of France.

- 1228 - Conrad IV of Germany.

- 1284 - King Edward II of England.

- 1599 - Oliver Cromwell.

- 1940 - Al Pacino, American actor.