What happened on 25 October?

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

1. 1760 Reign of George III Reign of George III (1760-1820) as King of Great Britain (the United Kingdom from 1801).
2. 1951 First general election in India World's largest democratic exercise to date; Congress wins decisively.
3. 1950 Chinese intervention in Korea 300,000 Chinese 'volunteers' cross the Yalu River; drive UN forces south; war becomes a stalemate.
4. 1983 US invasion of Grenada US invades Grenada to depose a Marxist coup.
5. 1854 Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade Scene of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade against Russian guns.
6. 1825 Born: Johann Strauss II Austrian composer; the 'Waltz King' of 19th-century Vienna; wrote The Blue Danube, Tales from the Vienna Woods, and the operetta Die Fledermaus.
7. 2022 Rishi Sunak's premiership Rishi Sunak serves as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
8. 1962 Stevenson shows the missile photographs at the UN US ambassador Adlai Stevenson demands the Soviet delegate Zorin answer whether the missiles in Cuba exist — 'I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over' — then unv
9. 1460 The Act of Accord disinherits a prince Parliament's compromise after York lays his hand on the empty throne: Henry VI keeps the crown for life, but York and his heirs succeed him — disinheriting the king's own son. Marg
10. 1555 Abdication of Charles V Worn out by forty years of war, the emperor publicly gives the Netherlands to his son Philip and announces he will lay down all his crowns; in 1556 Spain passes to Philip and the E
11. 1875 Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 Dismissed as unplayable by the pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, the concerto premieres in Boston instead and becomes one of the most popular ever written.
12. 1885 Brahms's Symphony No. 4 Late Romantic symphony culminating in a passacaglia finale.
13. 1147 Capture of Lisbon Crusader fleet bound for the Levant detours to help Afonso I of Portugal take Lisbon; a rare Second Crusade success.
14. 1957 Kubrick's Paths of Glory Kirk Douglas defends three French soldiers shot as scapegoats for a failed First World War attack — banned in France for years.