July 25

The twenty-fifth day of July.
==Events==
* 306: Constantine's troops proclaim him Roman Emperor.
* 325: The First Council of Nicaea concludes by celebrating Roman Emperor Constatine's twentieth anniversary.
* 1261: The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Michael VIII Palaeologus, thus re-establishing the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines also succeed in capturing Thessalonica and the rest of the Latin Empire.
* 1593: Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
* 1968: Pope Paul VI publishes his encylical Humanæ Vitæ, reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church's traditional condemnation of birth control.
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