Important Historical Events of the year 1825, Year 1825 in History

List of 1825 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1825

What happened in the year 1825?

Date Event
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 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 candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election.
February 12, 1825 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 5, 1825 Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
June 4, 1825 General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his visit to the United States.
June 11, 1825 The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
August 6, 1825 The Bolivian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
August 25, 1825 The Thirty-Three Orientals declare the independence of Uruguay from Brazil.
August 29, 1825 Portuguese and Brazilian diplomats sign the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, which has Portugal recognise Brazilian independence, formally ending the Brazilian war of independence. The treaty will be ratified by the King of Portugal three months later.
September 27, 1825 The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened.
October 9, 1825 Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.
October 26, 1825 The Erie Canal opens, allowing direct passage from the Hudson River to Lake Erie.
December 26, 1825 Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar Nicholas I in the Decembrist revolt, but are later suppressed.
December 30, 1825 The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.