ON 25 APRIL IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on April 25, 2019
1555: Birth of Naresuan (also called Naret or Sanphet II), king of Siam (1590-1605) who died on April 7, 1605
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Naresuan_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naresuan
1644: Chongzhen, born on February 6, 16th and last emperor of the Chinese Ming dynasty (1627-1644), commits suicide by hanging himself
http://www.mingtombs.eu/emp/16chongzhen/chongzhen.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongzhen_Emperor_of_China
1809: Signature of the treaty of Amritsar, which settles Indo-Sikh relations for a generation, is concluded between Charles T. Metclafe, representation the British East India Company, and Ranjit Singh, head ot the Sikh kingdom of Punjab
http://www.learnpunjabi.org/eos/ANGLO-SIKH%20TREATY%20(AMRITSAR,%201809).html
1860: The first Japanese diplomats to visit a foreign power reached Washington, DC. They remained in the U.S. capital for several weeks while discussing expansion of trade with the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Embassy_to_the_United_States_(1860)
http://ghostsofdc.org/2012/07/03/japanese-embassy-1860/
1867: Tokyo is opened to foreign trade
1873: Acehnese force the Dutch to withdraw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceh_War
http://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CE0QFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indonesia-dutchcolonialheritage.nl%2FKNILAceh%2Fthe_aceh_war-1873-1913%5B1%5D.pdf&ei=pJ46VZ-SKMSUapbZgdgB&usg=AFQjCNHwgiOKqcyw_f73TiSOvaxkku76Pw&sig2=D16NWaX8mh7HKZygWFQEqQ
1875: Death of Trinley Gyatso, 12th Dalai Lama,.born on January 1857
http://indiatodayshistory.blogspot.fr/2015/04/25-apr-1875-death-of-trinley-gyatso.html
1882: French troops under the command of Commandant Rivière, storm the citadel of Hanoi in Tonkin
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Tonkin_Campaign
1898: Russia and Japan sign an agreement supposed to put an end to their competition for the control of Korea (non respected)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishi%E2%80%93Rosen_Agreement
1932: Creation of the Korean anti-japanese guerrilla army, declared later as the origin of the Korean People’s Army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People%27s_Army
1935: Mao Zetan (Mao Zelin), the younger of Mao Zedong’s two brothers, born on September 1905, is captured and executed while fighting Kuomintang forces
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zetan
1940: Warlord Sheng Shicai, dependent on the Soviet Union for military support and trade, concludes an Agreement, granting USSR additional concessions in the whole province of Xinjiang for 50 years, virtually turning Xinjiang under full political and economical control of the USSR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_Shicai
1941: In Cambodia, Norodom Sihanouk, 18 yars old, is enthroned
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/prince-norodom-Sihanouk
1947: In Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, calls for talks with France
1948: Birth of Yu Shyi-kun, former Premier of Taiwan (2002-2005)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Shyi-kun
1950: The Republic of South Maluku is proclaimed at Ambon
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/south-moluccas.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Moluccas
1950: Birth of Apollo Quiboloy, founder and leader of the Philippines-based Restorationist church, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, who claims that he is the “Appointed Son of God”
https://carm.org/apollo-c-quiboloy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Quiboloy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FClU-iYVn4A
1951: During the Korean War, assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/battle-of-kapyong/
1951: After a three-day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on “Gloucester Hill,” in Korea
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1316777/The-day-650-Glosters-faced-10000-Chinese.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Imjin_River
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBAvVBVGkSE
1960: Death in exile at Zurich of Amanullah Khan, king of Aghanistan (1919-1929), born on June 1, 1892
https://www.khaama.com/king-amir-amanullah-khan/
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=17370
1961: China and Laos established diplomatic relations
1968 : Death of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Hindustani classical vocalist, born on April 2, 1902
http://www.indianetzone.com/6/ustad_bade_gulam_ali_khan.htm
http://www.surgyan.com/badeghulamalikhan.htm
1971: Birth of Tomoko Kawakami, (Voice Actress), Japanese Seiyuu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoko_Kawakami
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=526
1972: In the Nguyen Hue offensive, the North-Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South-Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontun
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/north-vietnamese-army-close-to-cutting-south-vietnam-in-two
1975: As North-Vietnamese forces close in on South Vietnam capital Saigon, the Australian embassy is closed and evacuated
1976: Birth of Kim Jong Kook, South Korean singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-kook_(singer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7OJ9LnboCY
1977: Visit of Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Van Dong to France, up to 28
1983: Birth of Joanne Peh, Singaporean actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne_Peh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nli2N57FpgU
1988: Zhu Rongji become mayor of Shanghai, replacing Jiang Zemin
http://english.people.com.cn/leaders/Zhurongji.htm
1989: Birth of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima who will be recognized as the 11th Pachen Lama by the Dalai Lama but refused by Beijing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedhun_Choekyi_Nyima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RahsoZ0I050
1992: Islamic forces in Afghanistan took control of most of the capital of Kabul following the collapse of the Communist government
1999: Falungong demonstration in Beijing outside Zhongnanhai
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/apr/26/johngittings
2001: Former Philippine former President Joseph Estrada is arrested
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1063976.stm
2005: Death Swami Ranganathananda (born Shankaran Kutty), hindu monk who took part in politics in India, born on 15 December 1908
http://www.thehindu.com/2005/04/26/stories/2005042603881200.htm
2006: End of the 10th congress of the Communist party of Vietnam (started on April 18)
2009: North Korea has started to extract plutonium from spent fuel rods at a nuclear facility, its foreign ministry says. The announcement comes hours after a UN Security Council committee placed three North Korean companies on a UN blacklist for aiding the country’s missile and nuclear programs
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/04/2009425443471519.html
2010: Nearly 100,000 people attend a rally in Japan’s southern island of Okinawa demanding that a US military base be moved off the island. Under a 2006 agreement with the US, the US Marines’ Futenma base was to be moved from the centre to the coast
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8642665.stm
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/04/201042554723575134.html
2011: More than 470 inmates at a prison in southern Afghanistan escapes through a tunnel hundreds of meters long and dug from outside the jail. Officials in the city of Kandahar said many of those who escaped from Sarposa jail were Taliban insurgents
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13184920
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/25/afghanistan.prison.break/index.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20110425-afghanistan-taliban-nearly-500-freed-kandahar-jailbreak-tunnel
2012: Pakistan successfully conducts a test of an intermediate range ballistic missile. The Hatf-IV Shaheen-1A missile is capable of carrying both nuclear and conventional warheads
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/04/201242545255746331.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/25/world/asia/pakistan-missile-test/index.html?hpt=ias_c2
2015: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake centered less than 50 miles from Kathmandu rocks Nepal with devastating force, toppling homes, temples and historic buildings and leaving at least 1,457 people dead, authorities said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/25/asia/nepal-earthquake-7-5-magnitude/index.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32467986
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/powerful-earthquake-hits-nepal-150425063918183.html
2016: Mei Baojiu: China’s renowned Peking opera master dies aged 82
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1938483/mei-baojiu-chinas-renowned-peking-opera-master-dies
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