1825

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Years:	1822 1823 1824 - 1825 - 1826 1827 1828

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Sports - Rail Transport

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Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

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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 Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1825 1.1 January - March 1.2 April - June 1.3 July - September 1.4 October - December 1.5 Undated 2 Births 2.1 January - June 2.2 July - December 2.3 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December 3.3 Unknown dates

[edit] Events of 1825

[edit] January - March

• January 4 - King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies dies and is succeeded by his son Francis I of the Two Sicilies.
• 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.
• February 4 - The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
• 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 succeeds James Monroe as President of the United States.

[edit] April - June

• (none)

[edit] July - September

• 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 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 7 - Brazil Gains independence from Portugal
• September 27 - The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opens in England.

[edit] October - December

• October 26 - The Erie Canal opens - passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
• December 1 - Nicholas I of Russia succeeds his older brother Alexander I.
• Decembrist Revolt in Russia.

[edit] Undated

• 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.[1]

[edit] Births

1825 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1825 MDCCCXXV
Ab urbe condita	2578
Armenian calendar	1274 ԹՎ ՌՄՀԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-19 – -18
Buddhist calendar	2369
Chinese calendar	4461/4521-11-13 (甲申年十一月十三日) — to — 4462/4522-11-22 (乙酉年十一月廿二日)
Ethiopian calendar	1817 – 1818
Hebrew calendar	5585 – 5586
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1880 – 1881
- Shaka Samvat	1747 – 1748
- Kali Yuga	4926 – 4927
Holocene calendar	11825
Iranian calendar	1203 – 1204
Islamic calendar	1240 – 1241
Japanese calendar	Bunsei 8 (文政8年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2485 (皇紀2485年)
- Jōmon Era	11825
Julian calendar	1870
Korean calendar	4158
Thai solar calendar	2368
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[edit] January - June

• 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)

[edit] July - December

• 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)
• William Henry Rinehart, American sculptor (d. 1874)

[edit] Unknown dates

• Carolyn Merrick, American temperance movement leader (d. 1908)

See also Category: 1825 births.

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January - June

• 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

[edit] July - December

• 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)

[edit] Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category: 1825 deaths.