1825

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1822 1823 1824 - 1825 - 1826 1827 1828

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1790s 1800s 1810s - 1820s - 1830s 1840s 1850s

align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1825 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

Events

January 4 - King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies dies and is succeeded by his son Francis I of the Two Sicilies.
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 officially succeeds James Monroe as President of the United States.
July 6 - The Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Snderborg-Beck gains possession of Glcksburg and changes his title to Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glcksburg. The line of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glcksburg later became the Royal House of Greece, Denmark and Norway.
July 30 - Malden Island discovered.
August 6 - Bolivia gains independence from Peru as a republic with the instigation of Simn Bolvar
September 27 - The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opens in England.
October 26 - The Erie Canal opens - passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie
November 26 - At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha as the first college social fraternity (it was the first to combine aspects of secret Greek-letter societies, literary societies and formalized student social groups).
December 1 - Alexander I of Russia dies and is succeeded by his younger brother Nicholas I of Russia.

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