1825 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1825?
- January 27, 1825 – The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears”.
- February 4, 1825 – The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
- February 9, 1825 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
- February 12, 1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
- March 2, 1825 – Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
- June 4, 1825 – French American Revolutionary War General Lafayette speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.
- June 11, 1825 – The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
- June 22, 1825 – The British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
- July 30, 1825 – Malden Island is discovered by captain George Anson Byron.
- August 6, 1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
- August 25, 1825 – Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
- August 29, 1825 – Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
- September 27, 1825 – The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world’s first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.
- October 26, 1825 – The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
- November 26, 1825 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
- December 26, 1825 – Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg.
- December 30, 1825 – The Treaty of St. Louis (1825) between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
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