Editing February 25 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1705]] – [[George Frideric Handel]]'s opera ''[[Handel's lost Hamburg operas#Nero|Nero]]'' premiered in [[Hamburg]].<ref>{{cite book
|last= Lang
|first= Paul Henry
|title= George Frideric Handel
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=9aK8AQAAQBAJ
|publisher= Dover Publications
|location= New York
|year= 1996
|page=35
|isbn= 0-486-29227-4}}</ref>
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Samuel Colt]] is granted a United States [[patent]] for his [[revolver]] firearm.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.edn.com/samuel-colt-receives-patent-for-his-revolver-february-25-1836/ |title=Samuel Colt receives patent for his revolver, February 25, 1836 |publisher=Electrical Design News (EDN) |location=Englewood, Colorado |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=6 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706043402/https://www.edn.com/samuel-colt-receives-patent-for-his-revolver-february-25-1836/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[Lord George Paulet]] occupies the [[Kingdom of Hawaii]] in the name of Great Britain in the [[Paulet affair]].<ref>{{cite book |title=British and Foreign State Papers, Volume 31 |year=1858 |publisher=Foreign Office |location=London |chapter=Correspondence relating to the Provisional Cession of the Sandwich Islands to great Britain. February 1843 |pages=1023–1029 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qADAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1023 |access-date=2020-09-23 |archive-date=2020-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200901140337/https://books.google.com/books?id=1qADAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1023 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1870]] &ndash; [[Hiram Rhodes Revels]], a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] from [[Mississippi]], is sworn into the [[United States Senate]], becoming the first [[African American]] ever to sit in [[United States Congress|Congress]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=R000166 |title=Revels, Hiram Rhodes (1827–1901) |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |publisher=Office of the House Historian, United States Congress |location=Washington, DC |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=29 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629155153/https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=R000166 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[Guangxu Emperor]] of [[Qing dynasty]] China begins his reign, under [[Empress Dowager Cixi]]'s regency.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Guangxu |title=Guangxu |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=5 July 2020 |archive-date=10 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310180333/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Guangxu |url-status=live }}</ref>