Notable Historical Events - 1825
1825 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 3 |
Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community |
Jan 19 |
Ezra Daggett & nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans |
Jan 25 |
1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY |
Jan 27 |
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." |
Feb 3 |
Dutch North Sea coast floods |
Feb 5 |
Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable shirt collar |
Feb 9 |
House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president |
Feb 12 |
Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government & migrate west by Sept 1, 1826 |
Feb 19 |
Franz Grillparzer's "Konig Ottokars Gluck," premieres in Vienna |
Feb 22 |
Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary |
Mar 2 |
1st grand opera in US sung in English, NYC |
Mar 4 |
John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president |
Apr 10 |
1st hotel in Hawaii opens |
Apr 10 |
Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at Leon |
Apr 19 |
33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay |
May 20 |
Charles X becomes King of France |
May 25 |
American Unitarian Association founded |
Jun 4 |
Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC |
Jun 11 |
The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City. |
Jun 19 |
Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims" premieres |
Jun 20 |
Coronation of French King Charles X the Bourbon |
Jun 22 |
British Parliament abolishes feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America. |
Jul 21 |
Java princess Dipo Negoro/Mangkubumi declare war on all non-islamics |
Jul 30 |
Malden Island is discovered. |
Aug 6 |
Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day) |
Aug 14 |
Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out |
Aug 25 |
Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day) |
Aug 29 |
Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil. |
Sep 27 |
Rail transport is born with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington line |
Oct 7 |
Miramichi Fire, disaster in New Brunswick |
Oct 17 |
1st French Liszts operette Don Sanche premieres in Paris |
Oct 26 |
Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened |
Nov 26 |
1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY)) |
Nov 29 |
1st Italian opera in US, "Barber of Seville" premieres (NYC) |
Dec 6 |
Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory |
Dec 26 |
Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins [O.S. 14 December] |
Dec 27 |
1st public railway using steam locomotive completed in England between Stockton and Darlington |
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