Template:On this day - June 25

Antonio Gaudí

• 1412 – The Act is drawn up recording the unanimous decision of the nine compromisarios of Caspe to elect Ferdinand of Antequera as the new King of Aragon.
• 1431 – In the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (present-day Spain), Pedro Fernández de Velasco attacks the Muslim lands of Montefrío, burning crops, woodland and farmhouses.
• 1535 – In the Tenencia de Quito (present-day Ecuador), Rumiñahui, the last of Atahualpa's commanders still fighting against the Spanish forces, is executed at the stake (b. 1482).
• 1571 – By order of the Settlement Board of the Kingdom of Chile the city of San José de Jáchal (now belonging to Argentina) is founded.
• 1572 – Death of Alfonso García Matamoros, Spanish rhetorician and humanist (b. c. 1490).
• 1638 – Death of Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1602).
• 1783 – In the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (present-day Entre Ríos Province, Argentina), on the banks of the Uruguay River, Tomás de Rocamora founds Concepción del Uruguay.
• 1806 – On the beaches of Quilmes (20 km from Buenos Aires, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, present-day Argentina), the British army lands 1,836 men, among them the 71st Regiment of Highlanders, beginning the English Invasions.
• 1835 – Death of Hipólita Bolívar, slave and wet nurse of Simón Bolívar's family (b. 1763).
• 1852 – Birth of Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, author of the Sagrada Família.
• 1856 – In Mexico, the Law for the Disentailment of the Rural and Urban Properties of Civil and Religious Corporations is issued, which aimed to create a rural middle class but ended up mostly favoring the privileged classes.
• 1857 – In Nicaragua, Colonel José Dolores Estrada Vado is promoted to brigadier general for defeating the filibusters of the American William Walker at the Battle of San Jacinto.
• 1870 – In Spain, Queen Isabella II abdicates the throne.
• 1874 – In Spain, in the course of the Third Carlist War, the Battle of Abárzuza is fought, in which more than 1,500 Liberal soldiers die, including General Manuel Gutiérrez de la Concha himself.
• 1912 – In the interior of Santa Fe Province (Argentina), the agrarian rebellion known as the Grito de Alcorta begins.
• 1933 – The last Peruvian troops leave the port of Leticia, bringing the Colombian-Peruvian War to an end.
• 1983 – In Spain the use of the garrote is abolished, the machine used to carry out capital punishment both in Spain and in the Spanish overseas provinces of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
• 2009 – Chile and Panama reach an agreement on economic compensation of 6.05 million dollars to the Government of Chile and to the relatives of General José Alejandro Bernales and the Chilean delegation killed in the SAN-100 helicopter accident.
• 2019 – Death of Edgar Artunduaga, Colombian journalist, writer and politician (b. 1953).
• 2023 – Death of Hugo Blanco, Peruvian guerrilla fighter, peasant leader and politician (b. 1934).