1825

Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s

Years: 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 - 1825 - 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830

Events

• 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 4 - John Quincy Adams officially succeeds James Monroe as President of the United States.
• July 6 - The Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderborg-Beck gains possession of Glücksburg and changed 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 30 - Malden Island discovered.
• August 6 - Bolivia gains independence from Peru.
• September 27th The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opens in England.
• October 26 - The Erie Canal opens - passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie
• November 26 - At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha as the first college social fraternity (it was the first to combine aspects of secret Greek-letter societies, literary societies and formalized student social groups).
• Decembrist Revolt in Russia.

Year in topic

• 1825 in literature
• 1825 in science

Births

• January 25 - George Pickett, Confederate general (+ 1876)
• March 22 - Jane Sym, future First Lady of Canada (+ 1893)
• May 4 -Sir Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist († 1895)
• September 11 - Eduard Hanslick, music critic († 1904)
• October 25 - Johann Strauss II, composer († 1899)
• November 9 - A.P. Hill, Confederate general (+ 1865)

Deaths

• Henri Boulard, literary figure
• May 7 - Antonio Salieri, composer
• May 19 - Comte, founder of French socialism

Heads of states

• Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
• Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)
• Russia - Alexander I Tsar of Russia (1801-1825)

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