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October 2025 will be the tenth month of the current common year. The month, which will begin on a Wednesday, will end on a Friday after 31 days.

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Ongoing events

Disasters

• Avian flu outbreak
• Haitian crisis
• United States opioid epidemic

Economics

• Balkan retail boycotts
• Canadian economic crisis
• Chinese property sector crisis
• German economic crisis
• Iranian energy crisis
• Moldovan energy crisis
• United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis

Politics

• Georgian constitutional crisis
• Somali constitutional crisis
• Venezuelan political crisis

Protests and strikes

• Georgian post-election protests
• Gaza war protests
• Mozambican post-election protests
• Serbian anti-corruption protests

Elections and referendums

Recent

• January

• 29–30: Ireland, Seanad (indirect)
• 31: Greece, President (2nd; indirect)

• February

• 06: Greece, President (3rd; indirect)
• 07: Turks and Caicos Islands, House of Assembly
• 09: Kosovo, Assembly
• 09: Liechtenstein, Landtag
• 09: Ecuador, President (1st), National Assembly

Upcoming

• 12: Greece, President (4th; indirect)
• 15: Abkhazia, President
• 18: Bermuda, House of Assembly
• 23: Germany, Bundestag
• 26: Anguilla, House of Assembly

Trials

Ongoing

• Kosovo:0Specialist Chambers
• South Korea:0Yoon Suk Yeol
• ICC:0Ali Kushayb  •  Mahamat Said Abdel Kani

Sports

• American football

• 2024 NFL season

• Association football

• 2024–25 UEFA Champions League
• 2024–25 UEFA Europa League
• 2024–25 UEFA Conference League
• 2024–25 UEFA Women's Champions League
• 2024–25 Premier League
• 2024–25 Serie A
• 2024–25 La Liga
• 2024–25 Bundesliga
• 2024–25 Ligue 1

• Basketball

• 2024–25 NBA season
• 2024–25 EuroLeague
• 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's season
• 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's season

• International cricket

• 2023–25 ICC World Test Championship

• Golf

• 2025 PGA Tour
• 2025 European Tour
• 2025 LIV Golf League
• 2025 LPGA Tour

• Ice hockey

• 2024–25 NHL season
• 2024–25 PWHL season

• Rugby union

• 2025 Six Nations Championship

• Tennis

• 2025 ATP Tour
• 2025 WTA Tour

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

February

• 11: Margarita Forés
• 09: Tom Robbins
• 08: Dick Jauron
• 08: Sam Nujoma
• 07: Tony Roberts
• 06: Virginia Halas McCaskey
• 05: Irv Gotti
• 04: Aga Khan IV
• 02: Brian Murphy
• 02: Barbie Hsu
• 01: Horst Köhler
• 01: Fay Vincent

January

• 30: Dick Button
• 30: Marianne Faithfull
• 30: Julius Chan
• 30: Edcel Lagman
• 29: Salwan Momika
• 29: Vadim Naumov
• 29: Evgenia Shishkova
• 29: Richard Williamson
• 25: Gloria Romero
• 24: Iris Cummings
• 22: Barry Michael Cooper
• 21: Mauricio Funes
• 21: Garth Hudson
• 20: Cecile Richards
• 20: John Sykes
• 19: Jeff Torborg
• 18: Claire van Kampen
• 17: Jules Feiffer
• 17: Didier Guillaume
• 17: Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
• 17: Denis Law
• 16: Joan Plowright
• 16: Bob Uecker
• 15: Paul Danan
• 15: David Lynch
• 15: Melba Montgomery
• 15: Linda Nolan
• 14: Arthur Blessitt
• 14: Tony Slattery
• 13: Oliviero Toscani
• 12: Leslie Charleson
• 12: Claude Jarman Jr.
• 10: José Jiménez
• 10: Bill McCartney
• 10: Sam Moore
• 09: Black Bart

Ongoing conflicts

Global

• War against the Islamic State

Africa

• Cameroon

• Anglophone Crisis

• Central African Republic

• Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Kivu conflict

• Ethiopia

• Amhara conflict

• Mozambique

• Insurgency in Cabo Delgado

• Nigeria

• Boko Haram insurgency

• Sahel insurgency

• Mali War

• Burkina Faso
• Niger

• Somalia

• Civil war

• Sudan

• Civil war

Americas

• Mexico

• Mexican drug war

Asia−Pacific

• Afghanistan

• Islamic State–Taliban conflict
• Republican insurgency

• India

• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency

• Myanmar

• Civil war

• Pakistan

• Insurgency in Balochistan
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

• Philippines

• NPA rebellion

Europe

• Russia and Ukraine

• Russian invasion of Ukraine

Middle East

• Israel

• Gaza war

• Israeli invasion of Lebanon

• Syria

• Israeli invasion of Syria

• Turkey

• PKK insurgency

• Yemen

• Red Sea crisis

See also – List of ongoing proxy wars

2025 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain