Historical Events In July - 25
Monday, 16 February 2026
0285 Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler. 

0306 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. 

0306 Gaius Flavius V Constantius, under-emperor of Rome 297-306, dies. 

0841 Battle at Fontenay: Louis and Charles beat their brother Lotharius I 

0864 The Edict of Pistres of Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings. 

0975 Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg, German chronicler. 

1109 Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85). 

1139 Count Alfonso I of Portugal is recorded as becoming king. 

1215 Frederik II (20) crowned king of German 

1261 Byzantium Emperor Michael VIII recaptures Constantinople. 

1360 Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia. 

1404 Philips van Saint-Pol, Duke of Brabant 

1409 King Martin I of Sicily 

1471 John Soreth, French general, dies. 

1492 Innocent VII, [Giovanni B Cibo], Italian Pope (1484-92), dies 

1511 Portugese assault on city Malakka attack 

1517 Jacques Peletier (du Mans), French poet/scientist. 

1519 San Cristobal de la Habana forms in Cuba. 

1521 About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent 

1536 Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the City of Santiago de Cali 

1538 The City of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil 

1539 Lorenzo Campeggi(east), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat, dies at 65. 

1547 Henry II of France is crowned 

1564 Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC emperor. 

1564 Ferdinand I, German Emperor (1558-64), dies at 61. 

1567 Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela 

1570 Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French govt army. 

1570 Ivan Viskovati, chancellor of Russia, executed. 

1575 Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer. 

1579 Valerius Otto, composer 

1580 Baltazar Alvarez, Spanish jesuit/writer, dies at 47 

1585 Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics 

1593 France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic 

1593 Steven Haghen, navigator/governor of Ambon (1617-18), dies at 61. 

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