So here’s our last instalment of things that happened in ..25 years of yore.
Some Notable Events in 1825
9 February. After no presidential candidate receives a majority of United States Electoral College votes following the 1824 election, the House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President.
24 February. Died. Thomas Bowdler, English physician responsible for the Family Shakespeare and other emasculated works (b.1754).
4 March. John Quincy Adams is sworn in as the sixth President of the United States.
May. The Australian city of Brisbane is founded.
4 May. Born. Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (d.1895).
7 May. Died. Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (b.1750).
26 May. Two Unitarian Christian bodies, the American Unitarian Association, and the British and Foreign Unitarian Association are founded, coincidentally, on the same date.
6 July. A new Combinations of Workmen Act in the UK makes trades unions legal according to narrowly defined principles.
6 August. Bolivia gains its independence from Spain as a replublic at the instigation of Simón Bolivar.
18 August. Scottish adventurer Gregor MacGregor issues a £300,000 loan with 2.5% interest, through the London bank of Thomas Jenkins & Company, for the fictitious Central American republic of Poyais. His actions lead to the Panic of 1825, the first modern stock market crash, in England.
27 September. The world’s first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens in England.
25 October. Born. Johann Strauss, Junior, Austrian composer (d.1899).
26 October. The Erie Canal opens, providing passage from Albany, New York to Buffalo and Lake Erie.
Unknown Date. Hans Christian Ørsted reduces aluminium chloride to produce metallic aluminium.
Unknown Date. The first horse-drawn omnibuses established in London.
Unknown Date. London becomes the largest city in the world, taking the lead from Beijing.
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