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1825 Calendar

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•  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.
•  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 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 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.
•  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.

•  March 9, 1825 – Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer (d. 1890)
•  April 11, 1825 – Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician (d. 1864)
•  May 1, 1825 – George Inness, American painter (d. 1894)
•  May 12, 1825 – Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French adventurer in Araucania and Patagonia (d. 1878)
•  August 11, 1825 – István Türr, Hungarian soldier and engineer (d. 1908)
•  October 25, 1825 – Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (d. 1899)
•  November 30, 1825 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French academic painter (d. 1905)
•  December 2, 1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)
•  December 30, 1825 – Samuel Newitt Wood, American Politician (d. 1891)