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Template:On this day - August 25
From Hispanopedia
- 306 – Death of Magín of Tarragona, a hermit in a cave for thirty years and martyr of Tarragona.
- 1091 – Death of Sisnando Davídiz, Mozarabic Jewish politician.
- 1648 – Death of José de Calasanz, Spanish saint and Catholic priest, founder of the Pious Schools (Piarist Fathers) (b. 1557).
- 1685 – Death of Francisco Herrera the Younger, Spanish painter (b. 1622).
- 1707 – Birth of Louis I, King of Spain (d. 1724).
- 1780 – Birth of Agustín Agualongo, commander of the Royalist army in America during the War of Independence in New Granada (in present-day Colombia) (d. 1824).
- 1580 – At the Battle of Alcántara, the troops of Philip II defeat those of the Prior of Crato, in the struggle for the crown of Portugal.
- 1594 – In the corregimiento of Cuyo of the Captaincy General of Chile (present-day Argentina), Luis Jufré de Loayza y Meneses founds the city of San Luis.
- 1825 – The Eastern Province of Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil and its union with the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata.
- 1858 – In the Toledo locality of Guarrazar (Spain) a local woman discovers a Visigothic treasure.
- 1898 – In the Philippines, during the Siege of Baler, the first casualty occurs when a soldier dies of beriberi.
- 1923 – Birth of Álvaro Mutis, Colombian novelist and poet, Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 2001.
- 2008 – Death of Elvira Dávila Ortiz, Colombian nurse, pioneer of nursing and of blood banks in Ibero-America (b. 1917).
- 2008 – In Honduras, President Manuel Zelaya signs the accession to ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean), which will be ratified by the National Congress on October 10.
- 2010 – The American company Time Warner announces the purchase of the Chilean television channel Chilevisión, owned by Chilean president Sebastián Piñera, for some 140 million US dollars.
- 2011 – In Monterrey (Mexico), hitmen carry out a terrorist attack on the Casino Royale, causing 52 deaths.
- 2012 – In Falcón state (Venezuela), the Amuay Refining Complex, one of the largest oil refineries in the world, suffers an explosion and subsequent fire that causes at least 55 dead and more than 100 injured.
