What happened on 25 February?

10 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1778 Born: Jose de San Martin Argentine general; liberator of Argentina, Chile, and Peru.
2. 1841 Born: Pierre-Auguste Renoir Impressionist painter celebrated for his sun-dappled scenes of Parisian life.
3. 2022 Battle of Kyiv (2022) Russian forces fail to take the Ukrainian capital and withdraw from the north after five weeks.
4. 1885 Zola's Germinal Zola's epic novel of a miners' strike in northern France.
5. 1836 Colt revolver Samuel Colt patents the percussion-fired revolver; his designs become the first very successful revolvers; adopted in the Mexican-American War and across the American West.
6. 1634 Wallenstein is assassinated Suspected of treating secretly with the enemy, the emperor's indispensable and overmighty general is cut down by his own officers at Eger on imperial orders. The Habsburgs are free
7. 1791 First Bank of the United States chartered Over Jefferson's objection that it is unconstitutional, Hamilton wins a national bank — the founding battle over implied powers.
8. 1570 Regnans in Excelsis Pope Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth and releases her subjects from obedience, turning every English Catholic into a potential traitor in the government's eyes.
9. 1830 Hugo's Hernani Classicists and young Romantics brawl nightly in the Comédie-Française over Hugo's verse drama — the 'battle of Hernani' that crowns Romanticism on the French stage.
10. 1964 Cassius Clay defeats Sonny Liston The brash 22-year-old 7-1 underdog takes the world heavyweight title when Liston fails to come out for the seventh round in Miami Beach; days later Clay announces he has joined the