What happened on 25 February?

6 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; the first practical mass-produced repeating firearm; 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