January 25: Feast Day of Gregory of Nazianzus (Eastern Orthodox Church); Burns Night (Scottish culture); Tatiana Day in Russia
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- 1533 – Anne Boleyn, already pregnant with future queen Elizabeth, secretly married Henry VIII of England, the second of his six marriages.
- 1573 – Sengoku period: The forces of Takeda Shingen defeated those of Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Mikatagahara in Mikatagahara, north of Hamamatsu, Mikawa Province.
- 1704 – English colonists from the Province of Carolina and their native allies began a series of raids against a largely pacific population of Apalachee in Spanish Florida.
- 1971 – Idi Amin seized power in a military coup d'état from President Milton Obote, beginning eight years of military rule in Uganda.
- 2004 – The Five Cross Flag (pictured) was restored to official use as the national flag of Georgia after a hiatus of some 500 years.
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