1825

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May 29: The last crowning of a French monarch takes place as the coronation of Charles X is held at Reims Cathedral.

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Events

January–March

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March 5: The capture of the pirate ship Anne takes place in the Caribbean Sea, effectively ending piracy there.

January 4 – King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies dies in Naples and is succeeded by his son, Francis.
February 3 – Vendsyssel-Thy, once part of the Jutland peninsula forming westernmost Denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its Template:Convert wide isthmus.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
February 9 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of United States Electoral College votes following the 1824 United States presidential election, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States in a contingent election.
February 10 – Gideon Mantell names and describes the second known dinosaur Iguanodon.
February 10 – Simón Bolívar gives up his title of dictator of Peru and takes the alternative title of El Libertador.Template:Cn
February 12 – Second Treaty of Indian Springs: The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government and migrate west.<ref name="OKState-Kapplers">"Treaty With The Creeks, 1825", Oklahoma State University Digital Collections, Kapplers: Indian affairs: laws and treaties Vol. 2 (Treaties), pp. 214-217. Retrieved May 16, 2024. </ref>
March 1 – The outbound British East Indiaman Template:Ship is destroyed by fire in the Bay of Biscay with the loss of more than 80 lives, but over 550 are saved by passing ships.
March 5 – Capture of the sloop Anne: Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful pirates in the Caribbean, is defeated by an international naval force.
March 17 – The Norfolk & Dedham Group is founded as The Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company in the United States.

April–June

April 17 – Charles X of France recognizes Haiti, 21 years after it expelled the French following the successful Haitian Revolution, and demands the payment of 150 million gold francs, 30 million of which Haiti must finance through France itself, as down payment.
May 26 – Two Unitarian Christian bodies, the American Unitarian Association in the United States and the British and Foreign Unitarian Association in the United Kingdom are founded, coincidentally on the same date.
May 29 – The Coronation of Charles X takes place at the historic site of Reims Cathedral, the last coronation of a French monarch.
May – History of Brisbane: The Australian city of Brisbane is founded.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
June 2 – The United States Senate ratifies the treaties with the Great Osage and the Little Osage tribes.<ref name=Niles>Niles' Weekly Register, Volume 30, p316</ref>
June 3 – The U.S. Senate ratifies the treaty with the Kansas tribe.<ref name=Niles/>
June 9 – The U.S. Senate ratifies the treaty with the Poncas tribe.<ref name=Niles/>
June 15 – A rebellion is started by 200 slaves in the Guamacaro region of Cuba, and is suppressed after 12 hours; in the ensuing months, most who weren't killed in the battle would be hunted down and killed.<ref>Manuel Barcia, West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807-1844 (Oxford University Press, 2014) p97</ref>

July–September

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September 27: The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens in England.

July 6
- The Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-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 becomes the royal house of Greece, Denmark and Norway.
- The U.S. Senate ratifies treaties with the Cheyenne tribe.<ref name=Niles/>
- A new Combinations of Workmen Act in the United Kingdom makes trade unions legal according to narrowly defined principles.
July 16 – The U.S. Senate ratifies treaties with the Hunkpapa tribe.<ref name=Niles/>
July 18 – The U.S. Senate ratifies treaties with the Ricara tribes.<ref name=Niles/>
July 30
- Malden Island (an uninhabited island in the central Pacific Ocean) is discovered by George Byron, 7th Baron Byron.
- The U.S. Senate ratifies treaties with the Mandan, Belantae, Eloa and Minnetaree tribes.<ref name=Niles/>
August 4 – The U.S. Senate ratifies treaties with the Ricara tribes.<ref name=Niles/>
August 6 – Bolivia gains its independence from Spain as a republic, at the instigation of Simón Bolívar.
August 11 – The U.S. Senate ratifies treaties with the Crow tribe.<ref name=Niles/>
August 18 – Scottish adventurer Gregor MacGregor issues a £300,000 loan with 2.5% interest, through the London bank of Thomas Jenkins & Company, for the fictitious Central American republic of Poyais. His actions lead to the Panic of 1825, the first modern stock market crash, in England.
August 22 – The National Mexican Rite is created in Mexico City.
August 25 – Uruguay is declared independent of the Empire of Brazil by the Thirty-Three Orientals, a militant revolutionary group led by Juan Antonio Lavalleja.
September 25 – General Hendrik Merkus de Kock lifts the siege of Jogjakarta, the first major action of the Java War.
September 26 – The U.S. Senate ratifies treaties with the Missouri and Ottoe tribes.<ref name=Niles/>
September 27 – The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens in England.
September 30 – The U.S. Senate ratifies treaties with the Pawnee tribe.<ref name=Niles/>
September – The Lady Margaret Boat Club is founded by 12 members of St John's College, Cambridge.

October–December

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December 14: The Decembrist revolt takes place in Russia.

October 7 – The Miramichi Fire, a forest fire, breaks out in New Brunswick (Canada).
October 21 – PS Comet II sinks off Gourock (Scotland) with the loss of 62 lives.
October 26 – The Erie Canal opens, providing passage from Albany, New York to Buffalo and Lake Erie.
November 7 – The U.S. Senate ratifies the treaty with the Shawnee tribe.<ref name=Niles/>
November 15 – King Joao VI of Portugal promulgates a law recognizing his eldest son, Dom Pedro, as the Emperor of Brazil.<ref>The Annual Register, or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1828 (Baldwin and Cradock, 1829) p428</ref>
October–December – Dispute between the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata and the Empire of Brazil over Banda Oriental region led to the Cisplatine War.
December 1 (O.S.)/November 19 (N.S.) – Nicholas I of Russia succeeds his older brother Alexander I.
December 9 – The British began the Siege of Bharatpur.
December 26 (O.S.)/December 14 (N.S.) – Some Imperial Russian Army officers stage the Decembrist revolt against Nicholas's accession in Saint Petersburg, but it is thoroughly suppressed by the government.

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Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan is founded as a mudfort on the Silk Road
The Fort Vancouver trading post is established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson's Bay Company.
Hans Christian Ørsted reduces aluminium chloride to produce metallic aluminium.
Minh Mạng outlaws the teaching of Christianity in Vietnam.
The first horse-drawn omnibuses established in London.
The United States Postal Service starts a dead letter office.
London becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from Beijing.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Births

January–June

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Thomas Henry Huxley

January 11 – Clement V. Rogers, Cherokee politician, father of Will Rogers (d. 1911)
January 25 – George Pickett, American Confederate general (d. 1876)
January 31 – Miska Magyarics, Slovene poet in Hungary (d. 1883)
February 8 – Henri Giffard, French engineer, pioneer in airship technology (d. 1882)
February 10 – Geoffrey Hornby, British admiral (d. 1895)
March 13 – Hans Gude, Norwegian romanticist landscape painter (d. 1903)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
March 16 – Camilo Castelo Branco, Portuguese writer (d. 1890)
March 21 – Alexander Mozhaysky, Russian aeronautical pioneer (d. 1890)
March 22 – Jane Sym, second wife of Canada's second prime minister (d. 1893)
April 11 – Ferdinand Lassalle, Prussian-German philosopher, socialist and politician (d. 1864)
April 24 – Robert Michael Ballantyne, Scottish novelist (d. 1894)
May 4 – Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (d. 1895)
May 8 – George Bruce Malleson, English officer, author (d. 1898)
May 9 – George Davidson, English-born geodesist, astronomer, geographer, surveyor, and engineer in the United States (d. 1911)
June 3 – Sophie Sager, Swedish women's rights activist (d. 1902)