On October 25
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly October 25 in the Human Saga — here is the surrounding week in history.
This week in history (Oct 22 – Oct 28)
On 28 October 312 CE Constantine defeated his rival Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge outside Rome, where Maxentius drowned in the Tiber; the victory left Constantine master of the western empire.
After a speculative boom, the New York Stock Exchange collapsed in late October 1929.
In late October 1922 tens of thousands of Fascist Blackshirts converged on the Italian capital in a coordinated show of force orchestrated by Benito Mussolini and the National Fascist Party.
The Hungarian Revolution began on 23 October 1956 when student-led demonstrations in Budapest, demanding political reform and an end to Soviet domination, escalated into a nationwide revolt.
On 26 October 2025, Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured El Fasher, the Sudanese army's last stronghold in the Darfur region, after a brutal siege lasting some 18 months.
On 26 October 1958 Pan American World Airways inaugurated transatlantic jet service with the Boeing 707, flying from New York to Paris.
On 27 October 2002 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former metalworker and union leader, won Brazil's presidency with about 61 percent of the runoff vote, and was inaugurated on 1 January 2003 as the country's first working-class president.