1825
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1825 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Contents
Events
January
- January 4 - King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies dies and is succeeded by his son Francis I of the Two Sicilies.
February
- February 9 - After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
- February 12 - The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and migrate west.
March
- March 4 - John Quincy Adams officially succeeds James Monroe as President of the United States.
July
- July 6 - The Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderborg-Beck gains possession of Glücksburg and changes his title to Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. The line of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg later became the Royal House of Greece, Denmark and Norway.
- July 14 - The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society was founded by 16 disgruntled members of the now-defunct Patrick Henry Society in Room 7, West Lawn.
- July 30 - Malden Island (an uninhabited island in the central Pacific Ocean) discovered.
August
- August 6 - Bolivia gains independence from Peru as a republic with the instigation of Simón Bolívar.
- August 25 - Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (See Uruguay's independence).
September
- September 27 - The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opens in England.
October
- October 26 - The Erie Canal opens - passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
December
- December 1 - Nicholas I of Russia succeeds his older brother Alexander I.
- Decembrist Revolt in Russia.
Unknown dates
- The first horse-drawn omnibuses established in London.
- First roller skates.
- Aluminium discovered.
- City of Brisbane founded - see History of Brisbane.
- Estimation: London becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from Beijing.[link]
Births
- January 25 - George Pickett, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
- March 22 - Jane Sym, second wife of Canada's second prime minister (d. 1893)
- May 4 - Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (d. 1895)
- May 8 - George Bruce Malleson, English officer and author (d. 1898)
- September 11 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (d. 1904)
- September 25 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (d. 1879)
- October 10 - Paul Kruger, Boer resistance leader (d. July 14 1904)
- October 25 - Johann Strauss, Junior, Austrian composer (d. 1899)
- November 9 - A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (d. 1865)
- December 2 - Emperor Peter II of Brazil (d. 1891)
Month/day unknown
- Carolyn Merrick, American temperance movement leader (d. 1908)
Deaths
- January 4 - Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1751)
- May 7 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (b. 1750)
- May 19 - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French politician (b. 1760)
- May 22 - Laskarina Bouboulina, Greek independence fighter (shot)
- May 23 - Ras Gugsa of Yejju, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia
- August 20 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1753)
- November 14 - Jean Paul, German writer (b. 1763)
- December 1 - Alexander I of Russia (disputed; b. 1777)
- December 28 - James Wilkinson, American soldier and statesman
- December 29 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
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