Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 25
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May 25: Ascension Thursday in Western Christianity (2006); Independence Day in Jordan (1946), African Liberation Day in various African countries.
- 1085 - King Alfonso VI of León-Castile conquered the taifa kingdom of Toledo, a milestone in the Reconquista.
- 1521 - Martin Luther was declared an outlaw and a heretic by the Diet of Worms.
- 1810 - May Revolution: The Primera Junta, the first independent government in Argentina, was established in Buenos Aires.
- 1946 - Abdullah bin Husayn (pictured), Emir of the Emirate of Transjordan, was proclaimed King of the renamed "Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan".
