Year '1825' ('
MDCCCXXV') was a
common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian Calendar (or a
common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1825
January - March
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January 4 - King
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies dies and is succeeded by his son
Francis I of the Two Sicilies.
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February 3 -
Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the
Jutland peninsula that formed westernmost
Denmark becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1 km wide
isthmus.
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February 4 - The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the
Ohio and Erie Canal and the
Miami and Erie Canal.
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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.
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February 10 -
Simón Bolívar gives up his title of
dictator of Peru and takes the alternative title of "Liberator".
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February 12 - The
Creek cede the last of their lands in
Georgia to the
United States government, and migrate west.
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March 4 -
John Quincy Adams succeeds
James Monroe as
President of the United States.
April - June
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April 17,
Charles X of France finally recognizes
Haiti 21 years after it expelled the French after the successful
Haitian Revolution and demands the payment of 150 gold francs which Haiti will pay back in more than 100 years.
July - September
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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.
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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, of the
University of Virginia.
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July 30 -
Malden Island (an uninhabited island in the central
Pacific Ocean) discovered.

Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway
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August 6 -
Bolivia gains independence from
Peru as a
republic with the instigation of
Simón Bolívar.
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August 25 -
Uruguay declares independence from
Brazil (See
Uruguay's independence).
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September 7 - Brazil Gains independence from Portugal
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September 27 - The world's first modern railway, the
Stockton and Darlington Railway opens in
England.
October - December
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October 7 - The
Miramichi Fire disaster in New Brunswick
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October 26 - The
Erie Canal opens - passage from
Albany, New York to
Lake Erie.
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December 1 -
Nicholas I of Russia succeeds his older brother
Alexander I.
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Decembrist Revolt in
Russia.
Undated
★ The first horse-drawn
omnibuses established in
London.
★ First
roller skates.
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Aluminium discovered.
★
City of Brisbane founded - see
History of Brisbane.
★ Estimation:
London becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from
Beijing.
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Births
January - June
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January 25 -
George Pickett, American Confederate general (d.
1876)
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March 22 -
Jane Sym, second wife of Canada's second prime minister (d.
1893)
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May 4 - Sir
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (d.
1895)
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May 8 -
George Bruce Malleson, English officer and author (d.
1898)
July - December
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September 11 -
Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (d.
1904)
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September 25 -
Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (d.
1879)
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October 10 -
Paul Kruger, Boer resistance leader (d.
July 14 1904)
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October 25 -
Johann Strauss, Junior, Austrian composer (d.
1899)
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November 9 -
A.P. Hill, American Confederate general (d.
1865)
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December 2 - Emperor
Peter II of Brazil (d.
1891)
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William Henry Rinehart, American sculptor (d. 1874)
★ ''date unknown'' -
Carolyn Merrick, American
temperance movement leader (d.
1908)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
January - June
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January 4 -
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (b.
1751)
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May 7 -
Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (b.
1750)
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May 19 -
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French politician (b.
1760)
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May 22 -
Laskarina Bouboulina, Greek independence fighter (shot)
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May 23 - Ras
Gugsa of Yejju, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia
July - December
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August 20 -
William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (b.
1753)
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November 14 -
Jean Paul, German writer (b.
1763)
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December 1 -
Alexander I of Russia (disputed; b.
1777)
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December 28 -
James Wilkinson, American soldier and statesman
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December 29 -
Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b.
1748)
: ''See also .''