2025

== Events ==
=== January ===
* January 1
** Poland takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union after Hungary.
** Bulgaria and Romania complete the process of joining the Schengen Area, lifting land border controls.
** Liechtenstein becomes the 37th country to legalize same-sex marriage.
** Ukraine halts the transportation of many Russian gas supplies through the country following the expiration of a five-year transit deal, while also becoming a state party in the International Criminal Court.
** Fifteen people are killed (including the perpetrator) and 57 others are injured during a vehicle-ramming and shooting attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
** Thirteen people are killed and three more injured in a shooting in Cetinje, Montenegro.
* January 4 – Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer announces his resignation.
* January 6
** Justin Trudeau announces his pending resignation as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Prime Minister of Canada after nine years in office.
** Indonesia becomes the tenth member to join BRICS.
* January 7
** A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes the Tibet Autonomous Region of Southwest China, killing at least 126 people, whilst another 338 are injured.
** Greater Los Angeles experiences the most destructive wildfires in its history, fueled by strong winds and prolonged drought conditions. Over 13,000 structures are destroyed, including most of Sunset Boulevard. At least 29 deaths are reported, while 180,000 people are evacuated, with fires continuing for days.
* January 8 – Eighteen gunmen and a soldier are killed in an attack on the presidential palace in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad.
* January 9 – General Joseph Aoun is elected the 14th president of Lebanon by parliament, ending the power vacuum that lasted over two years.
* January 10 – The European Copernicus Climate Change Service reports that 2024 was the world's hottest year on record, and the first calendar year to pass the symbolic threshold of 1.5°C of global warming.
* January 11 – A gas station explosion in al-Bayda, Yemen, results in 40 deaths and dozens of others injured.
* January 12 – 2024–25 Croatian presidential election: Zoran Milanović is re-elected for a second term.
* January 13 – C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), a non-periodic comet reaches perihelion, and is dubbed The Great Comet of 2025.
* January 14 – February 2 – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship takes place in Croatia, Denmark and Norway.
* January 15
** President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol is successfully arrested after a second attempt by police following a martial law declaration and successful impeachment motion last December.
** Israel–Hamas war: Israel and Hamas approve a ceasefire agreement that intends to end the war, exchange Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and allow in international aid. It took effect on January 19.
** Colossal Biosciences and University of Melbourne create the world's first artificial womb in marsupials as part of their thylacine de-extinction project.
* January 16
** Blue Origin successfully launches its heavy-lift launch vehicle, New Glenn, on its first attempt.
** The 2025 Vanuatuan general election is held.
** The National Liberation Army (ELN) launches multiple attacks in the Catatumbo region, northeastern Colombia. More than 100 people are killed during the clashes.
* January 18
** 98 people are killed in a fuel tanker explosion near Suleja, Niger State, northern Nigeria.
** Two Sharia judges are assassinated in their rooms at the Supreme Court of Iran in capital Tehran. The gunman injured two other people and committed suicide after the attacks.
* January 19 – Israel–Hamas war: A ceasefire goes into effect.
* January 21 – 78 people are killed after a fire breaks out in a hotel in the ski resort of Kartalkaya, Turkey.
* January 22 – Thailand becomes the 38th country and the first in Southeastern Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.
* January 23 – Micheál Martin is reelected prime minister (Taoiseach) of Ireland for a second non-consecutive term.
* January 24 – Storm Éowyn hits Ireland and the United Kingdom. Record high wind speeds of 183 km/h (114 mph) are recorded in Ireland, while over a million homes are left without power.
* January 25
** The Dacian-era Helmet of Coțofenești, on loan from the National History Museum of Romania, is stolen along with three other gold artifacts from the Drents Museum in Assen by thieves who broke into the museum using explosives.
* January 26 – The 2025 Belarusian presidential election is held, with incumbent Alexander Lukashenko (Independent, but of the Belaya Rus alliance) being re-elected.
* January 27 – Global technology shares fall sharply in response to DeepSeek, a Chinese competitor to OpenAI's ChatGPT. Chip giant Nvidia loses almost $600 billion of its value, the biggest drop for a single company in U.S. stock market history.
* January 29
** 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision: A United States Army Black Hawk helicopter with three occupants onboard, collides with a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 with 64 occupants onboard in Washington, D.C., United States. There are no survivors.
** Ahmed al-Sharaa is appointed as the transitional president of Syria, after a one-month vacancy following the fall of the Assad regime.
* January 30 – Following the approval of a constitutional reform, Nicaragua becomes a diarchy with Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo as co-presidents.
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