Silver jubilee marks a 25th anniversary. The anniversary celebrations can be of a wedding anniversary, the 25th year of a monarch's reign or anything that has completed or is entering a 25-year mark.
Royal silver jubilees since 1750
editNote: This list includes various reigning princes (by various titles) of petty states in Germany and elsewhere, who do not merit the designation "royal".
Other silver jubilees
edit| Non-royal state leaders | Date of silver jubilee |
|---|---|
| Leader Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union | 1949 |
| Leader Enver Hoxha of Albania | 1969 |
| Supreme Leader Kim Il Sung of North Korea | 1973 |
| Chairman Mao Zedong of China | 1974 |
| Leader Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal of Mongolia | 1977 |
| Leader Todor Zhivkov of Bulgaria | 1979 |
| Leader Janos Kadar of Hungary | 1981 |
| President Urho Kekkonen of Finland | 1 March 1981 |
| President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia | 1982 |
| President Sekou Toure of Guinea | 1983 |
| President Ne Win of Burma | 1987 |
| President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia | 1989 |
| President Mobutu Sese Seko of DR Congo | 1990 |
| President Hastings Banda of Malawi | 1991 |
| President Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo | 1992 |
| President Suharto of Indonesia | 1992 |
| President Omar Bongo of Gabon | 1992 |
| Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution Muammar Gaddafi of Libya | 1 September 1994 |
| President Hafez al-Assad of Syria | 1996 |
| President Albert Rene of Seychelles | 2002 |
| President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen | 2003 |
| President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea | 2004 |
| President Jose dos Santos of Angola | 2004 |
| President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt | 2006 |
| President Paul Biya of Cameroon | 2007 |
| President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda | 2011 |
| President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe | 2012 |
| President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan | 2014 |
| Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei of Iran | 2014 |
| President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan | 2014 |
| President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan | 2014 |
| President Idriss Deby of Chad | 2015 |
| President Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea | 2016 |
| President Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan | 2017 |
South Asian film terminology
editIn India and Pakistan, a silver jubilee film is commonly described as a movie shown continuously in cinemas in one city for 25 straight weeks without any interruptions.[2]
See also
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Look up quadranscentennial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Notes
edit- ^ Anniversary of his formal enthronement on 30 July 1999 (Throne Day). Mohammed was king retroactively to the death of his father, Hassan II, on 23 July 1999.
References
edit- ^ "Silver Jubilee". Archived from the original on 8 July 2017. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 April 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
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