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1825 Calendar

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•  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 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.
•  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.
•  July 30, 1825 – Malden Island is discovered by captain George Anson Byron.
•  August 6, 1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
•  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.
•  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.

•  January 11, 1825 – Bayard Taylor, American poet (d. 1878)
•  March 21, 1825 – Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer (d. 1890)
•  July 31, 1825 – William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1886)
•  August 11, 1825 – István Türr, Hungarian soldier and engineer (d. 1908)
•  September 4, 1825 – Dadabhai Naoroji, An early Indian political leader (d. 1917)
•  September 25, 1825 – Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (d. 1879)
•  October 10, 1825 – Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic (d. 1904)
•  October 31, 1825 – Charles Lavigerie, French cardinal (d. 1892)
•  November 30, 1825 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French academic painter (d. 1905)
•  December 30, 1825 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American Politician (d. 1891)