Some notable events that happened on November 25th include:
896: King Arnulf of East Francia, the illegitimate son of Carloman of Bavaria, marries Oda of Vermandois.
1120: The wreck of the White Ship, carrying William Adelin, the only legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England, and his half-brother, Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester, along with many of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy, sinks in the English Channel, killing all on board.
1491: The Reconquista ends as the Emirate of Granada surrenders to the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile.
1644: John Milton's Areopagitica is published.
1783: The British evacuate New York City, ending the American Revolutionary War.
1805: British admiral Nelson's great victory at the Battle of Trafalgar secures British naval supremacy in the Napoleonic Wars.
1837: The Patriot War in Upper Canada begins.
1863: The Battle of Chattanooga ends in Union victory.
1870: Henry Morton Stanley finds David Livingstone in Ujiji, Tanzania, and famously utters the words: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1914: The Royal Navy sinks the German armoured cruiser SMS Blücher, the first significant ship lost in the First World War.
1915: Albert Einstein presents his theory of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
1922: The International Court of Justice is established.
1941: Finland declares war on the United States.
1952: The first hydrogen bomb is tested by the United States.
1956: Fidel Castro proclaims his 26th of July Movement victorious in Cuba.
1963: The assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.
1970: The Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima commits seppuku in public after a failed attempt to stage a military coup d'état.
1975: Suriname gains its independence from the Netherlands.
1980: The Solidarity trade union is officially registered in Poland.
1984: The first female Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, is assassinated by her bodyguards.
1992: The Velvet Divorce between the Czech Republic and Slovakia takes effect.
2001: The United States invades Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
2016: Fidel Castro, the former leader of Cuba, dies at the age of 90.
2022: The James Webb Space Telescope completes its alignment, becoming fully operational.