On this day: October 25

October 25: Retrocession Day in Taiwan (1945)

Battle of Agincourt

• 1147 – Reconquista: Forces under Afonso I of Portugal captured Lisbon from the Moors after a four-month siege in one of the few Christian victories during the Second Crusade.
• 1415 – Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England and his lightly armoured infantry and archers defeated the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of Agincourt (pictured) on Saint Crispin's Day.
• 1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange, the stock exchange with the most mining and petrochemical companies listed in the world, was established.
• 1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, a multilateral treaty providing an expeditious method to return a child taken from one member nation to another, concluded at The Hague.
• 2010 – Mount Merapi in Central Java, Indonesia began an increasingly violent series of eruptions that lasted over a month.

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