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This is a list of selected July 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.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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National Day in Galicia, Spain; refimprove
Republic Day in Tunisia (1957) refimprove
Constitution Day in Puerto Rico (1952) unreferenced section
1536Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar founded Santiago de Cali in present-day western Colombia while on his search for the mythical city of El Dorado. refimprove sections
1567Caracas, today the capital and largest city of Venezuela, was founded as Santiago de Leon de Caracas by Spanish explorer Diego de Losada. refimprove section
1609 – During a hurricane, the English sailing ship Sea Venture became grounded on the reefs of Bermuda, which is widely believed to have inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest. refimprove section
1722Samuel Shute, Governor of Massachusetts, declared war on the Abenaki people to begin Dummer's War. refimprove sections
1792French Revolutionary Wars: Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick issued the Brunswick Manifesto to the population of Paris, promising vengeance if King Louis XVI and other members of the French royal family were harmed. Charles: needs more footnotes, expansion; Manifesto: needs more footnotes
1799French invasion of Egypt: Napoleon's decisive victory over a combined Ottoman–British force in the Battle of Abukir temporarily secured Egypt for France. unreferenced sections
1814War of 1812: In present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario, the United States and Great Britain engaged in the Battle of Lundy's Lane, one of the deadliest ever fought on Canadian soil. refimprove section
1861 – The United States Congress passed the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, asserting that the aim of the American Civil War was to "preserve the Union"; the measure was repealed five months later. unreferenced "Historical background" section
1909 – French aviator Louis Blériot crossed the English Channel in a heavier-than-air flying machine, flying from near Calais, France, to Dover, England. refimprove section
1957 – More than a year after obtaining independence from France, Tunisia abolished its monarchy and became a republic. refimprove section
1969Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announced that the United States would not "undertake all the defense of the free nations of the world", beginning the Vietnamization of the war. missing ISBNs
1978Louise Brown, the world's first baby conceived through in vitro fertilisation, was born in Oldham, England. unreferenced section
1993 – Israeli forces launched a week-long attack against Lebanon to make it difficult for Hezbollah to use southern Lebanon as a base for striking Israel. refimprove
Thomas Eakins |b|1844| Referencing
Erika Steinbach |b|1943| Referencing, BLP
1139 – Prince Afonso Henriques led Portuguese troops to victory over the Almoravid Moors at the Battle of Ourique, which soon resulted in Portuguese independence from the Kingdom of León. Too much uncited
1978 – Two Puerto Rican independence activists were killed in a police ambush at Cerro Maravilla in Ponce. Citation issues
Isaac Luria |d|1572| Too much uncited

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July 25: National Day of Galicia, Saint James's Day

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