25 August on the map of history
6 events the records the map draws date to 25 August, from 1914 to 1991. Each one opens the map on that very day.
- 1914
The sack of Louvain — 248 civilians killed and the university library burned with its 300,000 books
War record · World War I
Open the map on this day → - 1941
Iran is invaded from both ends to secure the railway carrying Lend-Lease to the USSR
War record · World War II · 1941-08-25 – 1941-09-17
Open the map on this day → - 1942
Milne Bay — the first outright defeat of a Japanese landing force on land
War record · World War II · 1942-08-25 – 1942-09-07
Open the map on this day → - 1944
The Gothic Line — the last prepared position in Italy holds through a winter and half of the following spring
War record · World War II · 1944-08-25 – 1945-03-31
Open the map on this day → - 1991
The map begins drawing Belarus, Moldova; new borders for Soviet Union
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1991
What this page states
A border event is what the border record states about its own outlines, under the names IntMap’s map writes on that day: «the map begins drawing», «stops drawing», «new borders for». It is computed by the map’s own code, comparing the day with the day before.
A name the record does not date is not listed: the map’s table of era names is written in years, so a renaming that falls on another country’s border day is left out.
OpenHistoricalMap, which the map draws from 1689 to 1885, is not included: its dates carry no precision, and most of its first-of-the-month dates are months or years written as days.
The war record covers only the wars IntMap documents day by day (World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Arab–Israeli Wars, Yugoslav Wars).
Sources
CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Territory and dates: the documented record, compiled in scripts/wars/. Country outlines: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes).