Captain <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Webb" id="mwbQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Matthew Webb">Matthew Webb</a> becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_25#cite_note-2" id="mwbg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwbw">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt17" class="citation web cs1" id="mwB54"><a class="external text" href="https://www.channelswimmingassociation.com/swim/2461/matthew-webb" id="mwB58" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Matthew Webb 1875"</a>. <i id="mwB6A">Channel Swimming Association</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB6E">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB6I">22 August</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt17" class="Z3988" id="mwB6M" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Channel+Swimming+Association&amp;rft.atitle=Matthew+Webb+1875&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.channelswimmingassociation.com%2Fswim%2F2461%2Fmatthew-webb&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+25"></span></span>