# Silver jubilee

Silver Jubilee marks a 25th anniversary. The anniversary celebrations can be of a wedding anniversary, the 25th year of a monarch's reign or anything that has completed or is entering a 25-year mark.

## Royal Silver Jubilees since 1750

Note: This list includes various reigning princes (by various titles) of petty states in Germany and elsewhere, who do not merit the designation "royal".
| Monarch | Date of silver jubilee |
| King George II of Great Britain | 1752 |
| Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont | 1753 |
| King Borommakot of Siam | 1758 |
| Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg | 1762 |
| King Frederick II of Prussia | 1765 |
| King Joseph I of Portugal | 1775 |
| Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | 1777 |
| Christian Günther III, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen | 1783 |
| King Ferdinand IV / III of Naples and Sicily | 1784 |
| King George III of the United Kingdom | 1785 |
| Empress Catherine II of Russia | 1787 |
| Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont | 1788 |
| Ferdinand I, Duke of Parma | 1790 |
| King Christian VII of Denmark | 1791 |
| Queen Maria I of Portugal | 1802 |
| King Rama I of Siam | 1807 |
| Günther Friedrich Karl I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen | 1819 |
| King Frederick William III of Prussia | 1822 |
| Leopold II, Prince of Lippe | 1827 |
| Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen | 1828 |
| Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt | 1832 |
| King Frederick VI of Denmark | 1833 |
| George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont | 1838 |
| King William I of Württemberg | 1841 |
| George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | 1841 |
| King Charles XIV John of Sweden | 1843 |
| Heinrich LXII, Prince Reuss Younger Line | 1843 |
| Heinrich LXXII, Prince Reuss of Lobenstein and Ebersdorf | 1847 |
| King Rama III of Siam | 1849 |
| Tsar Nicholas I of Russia | 1850 |
| Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | 1853 |
| King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies | 1855 |
| Emperor Pedro II of Brazil | 1856 |
| Günther Friedrich Karl II, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen | 1860 |
| Queen Victoria | 1862 |
| Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | 1867 |
| Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | 1869 |
| George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont | 1870 |
| King George Tupou I of Tonga | 1870 |
| Pope Pius IX | 1871 |
| Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse | 1873 |
| Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria | 2 December 1873 |
| King William III of the Netherlands | 1874 |
| Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg | 1878 |
| Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | 1878 |
| Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg | 1878 |
| Tsar Alexander II of Russia | 1880 |
| Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden | 1881 |
| Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein | 1883 |
| Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz | 1884 |
| Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz | 1885 |
| King Norodom of Cambodia | 1885 |
| Adolphus I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe | 1885 |
| Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany | 1886 |
| King Luís I of Portugal | 1886 |
| King George I of Greece | 1888 |
| King Christian IX of Denmark | 1888 |
| King Charles I of Württemberg | 1889 |
| Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen | 1891 |
| Sheikh Abdullah II Al-Sabah of Kuwait | 1891 |
| Heinrich XIV, Prince Reuss Younger Line | 1892 |
| King Chulalongkorn of Siam | 1893 |
| Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt | 1896 |
| King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway | 18 September 1897 |
| Albert, King of Saxony | 1898 |
| Sultan Abdulhamid II of Ottoman Empire | 31 August 1901 |
| Pope Leo XIII | 1903 |
| Charles Gonthier, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen | 1905 |
| Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria | 1911 |
| Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany | 15 June 1913 |
| Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg | 1915 |
| Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands | 1915 |
| King William II of Württemberg | 1916 |
| Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse | 1917 |
| King George Tupou II of Tonga | 1918 |
| King Sobhuza II of Swaziland | 1924 |
| King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy | 1925 |
| King Haakon VII of Norway | 1930 |
| King Gustaf V of Sweden | 1932 |
| King George V of the United Kingdom | 6 May 1935 |
| King Christian X of Denmark | 1937 |
| Queen Sālote Tupou III of Tonga | 1943 |
| Prince Louis II of Monaco | 1947 |
| Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin of Brunei | 1949 |
| King Jigme Wangchuck of Bhutan | 1951 |
| Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia | 2 November 1955 |
| Prince Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein | 25 July 1963 |
| Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran | 1966 |
| King Bhumibol of Thailand | 9 June 1971 |
| Queen Juliana of the Netherlands | 1973 |
| Prince Rainier III of Monaco | 1974 |
| King Baudouin of Belgium | 1976 |
| Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth Realms | 6 February 1977 |
| King Hussein of Jordan | 1977 |
| King Olav V of Norway | 1982 |
| Prince Shah Karim al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV | 11 July 1982 – 11 July 1983 |
| King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho | 1985 |
| King Hassan II of Morocco | 1986 |
| Alhaji (Dr.) Ado Bayero The Emir of Kano, Nigeria | June 1988 |
| Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg | 1989 |
| King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga | 16 December 1990 |
| Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei | 5 October 1992 |
| Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman | 23 July 1995 |
| Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria | 1996 |
| Joan Martí i Alanis, Co-Prince of Andorra | 1996 |
| King Birendra of Nepal | 1997 |
| Queen Margrethe II of Denmark | 14 January 1997 |
| King Jigme Singye of Bhutan | 1997 |
| King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden | 15 September 1998 |
| King Juan Carlos I of Spain | 22 November 2000 |
| Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah of Kuwait | 31 December 2002 |
| Pope John Paul II | 2003 |
| Sultan Ismail Petra of Kelantan, Malaysia | 30 March 2004 |
| Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands | 29 April 2005 |
| Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak, Malaysia | 3 February 2009 |
| King Mswati III of Swaziland | 25 April 2011 |
| Emperor Akihito of Japan | 7 January 2014 |
| Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein | 13 November 2014 |
| King Harald V of Norway | 17 January 2016 |
| King Letsie III of Lesotho | 7 February 2021 |
| King Abdullah II of Jordan | 7 February 2024 |
| King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain | 6 March 2024 |
| Asantehene Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II of Asante | 26 April 2024 |
| King Mohammed VI of Morocco | 30 July 2024 |

## Other silver jubilees

| Non-royal state leaders | Date of silver jubilee |
| Leader Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union | 1949 |
| Leader Enver Hoxha of Albania | 1969 |
| Supreme Leader Kim Il Sung of North Korea | 1973 |
| Chairman Mao Zedong of China | 1974 |
| Leader Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal of Mongolia | 1977 |
| Leader Todor Zhivkov of Bulgaria | 1979 |
| Leader Janos Kadar of Hungary | 1981 |
| President Urho Kekkonen of Finland | 1 March 1981 |
| President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia | 1982 |
| President Sekou Toure of Guinea | 1983 |
| President Ne Win of Burma | 1987 |
| President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia | 1989 |
| President Mobutu Sese Seko of DR Congo | 1990 |
| President Hastings Banda of Malawi | 1991 |
| President Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo | 1992 |
| President Suharto of Indonesia | 1992 |
| President Omar Bongo of Gabon | 1992 |
| Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution Muammar Gaddafi of Libya | 1 September 1994 |
| President Hafez al-Assad of Syria | 1996 |
| President Albert Rene of Seychelles | 2002 |
| President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen | 2003 |
| President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea | 2004 |
| President Jose dos Santos of Angola | 2004 |
| President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt | 2006 |
| President Paul Biya of Cameroon | 2007 |
| President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda | 2011 |
| President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe | 2012 |
| President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan | 2014 |
| Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei of Iran | 2014 |
| President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan | 2014 |
| President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan | 2014 |
| President Idriss Deby of Chad | 2015 |
| President Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea | 2016 |
| President Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan | 2017 |

## South Asian film terminology

In India and Pakistan, a silver jubilee film is commonly described as a movie shown continuously in cinemas in one city for 25 straight weeks without any interruptions.