July 25<\/p>\n
306 \u2013 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.<\/p>\n
315 \u2013 The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.<\/p>\n
1139 \u2013 During the Portuguese part of the Reconquista, Almoravid moslems led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by the forces of Prince Afonso Henriques, at Ourique, in Alentejo, Portugal<\/p>\n
1261 \u2013 The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.<\/p>\n
1278 \u2013 During the Reconquista, oduring the siege of Algeciras near the Strait of Gibraltar, the fleet of the moslem Maranid Emirate of Granada, commanded by Abu Yaqub Yusuf an-Nasr wins a naval battle over the fleet of the Kingdom of Castile, commanded by the Admiral of Castile, Pedro Mart\u00ednez de Fe.<\/p>\n
1536 \u2013 Sebasti\u00e1n de Belalc\u00e1zar, on his search for El Dorado, founds the city of Santiago de Cali, in modern Columbia.<\/p>\n
1567 \u2013 Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas,\u00a0 the capital city of Venezuela.<\/p>\n
1603 \u2013 King James VI of Scotland is crowned King James 1 of England<\/p>\n
1609 \u2013 The English ship Sea Venture<\/em>, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore at Bermuda during a storm to prevent its sinking; the survivors going on to found a new colony there instead.<\/p>\n 1693 \u2013 Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, now known as Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo Le\u00f3n, Mexico.<\/p>\n If anyone was wondering about all the Santiagos, July 25th is the feast day of the Apostle Saint James; ‘Santiago’<\/em> in spanish.<\/p>\n 1722 \u2013 The ‘Dummer’s War’ between colonists and Abenaki tribes begins along the Maine-Massachusetts border.<\/p>\n 1759 \u2013 During the French and Indian War, British forces capture Fort Niagara from the French, who subsequently abandon nearby Fort Rouill\u00e9 to the north.<\/p>\n 1783 \u2013 The Revolutionary War’s last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by a preliminary peace agreement.<\/p>\n 1853 \u2013 Bandit Joaquin Murrieta, called the “Robin Hood of El Dorado”, is killed in Fresno County, by California Rangers<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013 Congress passes the Crittenden\u2013Johnson Resolution<\/em>, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.<\/p>\n 1866 \u2013 Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of The Army<\/em>, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.<\/p>\n 1868 \u2013 The Wyoming Territory is established.<\/p>\n 1898 \u2013 In the Puerto Rican Campaign of the Spanish American War, the U.S Army lands and secures the port at Gu\u00e1nica.<\/p>\n 1909 \u2013 Louis Bl\u00e9riot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier than air machine<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 Off Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads, <\/em>the MK3 nuclear bomb \u201cHelen” is detonated 90 feet underwater as the ‘Baker<\/em>‘ – second – shot of U.S. nuclear tests.<\/p>\n 1956 \u2013 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria<\/em> collides with the MS Stockholm<\/em> in heavy fog and sinks the next day, with the loss of 51 passengers.<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 President Kennedy states that any attack on Berlin will be considered an attack on NATO.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 During the Vietnam War, President Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the U.S. now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense starting the “Vietnamization” of the war.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 Louise Joy Brown is born at Oldham General Hospital, in Manchester, England;\u00a0 the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 Members of the terrorist Azanian People’s Liberation Army attack the Saint James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa killing 11 members of the congregation and wounding another 58 before a member, Charl van Wyk, returns fire, immediately stopping the terrorists and driving them off.<\/p>\n 1994 \u2013 Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, formally ending the state of war between the two nations.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2013 Air France Flight 4590, an A\u00e9rospatiale\/BAC Concorde<\/em>, crashes at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport on take off, killing all 109 passengers and crew aboard and 4 people on the ground.<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013 WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 25 306 \u2013 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. 315 \u2013 The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. 1139 \u2013 During the Portuguese part of the Reconquista, Almoravid moslems led by Ali ibn Yusuf, are defeated by … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57268"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94672,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57268\/revisions\/94672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}