What Happened in 1825 — Events, Births & Deaths
1825 brings together 9 events, 0 birthdays and 0 deaths recorded across history.
January 1
- January 27
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 2
- February 4
The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
- February 12
The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
March 1
- March 13
Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry.
August 1
- August 6
The Bolivian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
September 1
- September 27
The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened with the engine Locomotion pulling wagons with coal and passengers from Shildon to Darlington to Stockton.
October 1
- October 26
The Erie Canal opens, allowing direct passage from the Hudson River to Lake Erie.
December 2
- December 26
Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar Nicholas I in the Decembrist revolt, but are later suppressed.
- December 30
The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.