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Fri Nov 16 2001 at 23:36:24
In the year 1825...
The
Greek War of Independence
rages.
Egyptian
general
Ibrahim Pasha
captures
Greece
's
Morea peninsula
.
The
Russo-Persian War
erupts.
The
Javanese
revolt against the
Dutch
under
Prince Diponegoro
.
Russian
army officers demanding social reforms lead the abortive
Decembrist Revolt
against the new
Czar
,
Nicholas I
.
The US
House of Representatives
elects
John Quincy Adams
the 6th president of the United States after no candidate receives a majority of the electoral votes.
Bolivia
becomes independent from
Spain
.
Uruguay
declares independence from
Brazil
.
The
Erie Canal
opens, linking the
Great Lakes
to the
Atlantic
via the
Hudson River
The
first passenger
train
runs through
Darlington
,
England
on the the
Stockton and Darlington Railway
.
André-Marie Ampère
demonstrates that a current-carrying conductor will exert a force on a magnet and vice versa.
Vancouver
is founded by the
Hudson's Bay Company
as
Fort Vancouver
.
These people were born in 1825:
Viennese musician
Johann Strauss
, composer of famous
waltzes
such as
The Blue Danube
.
Indian nationalist
Dadabhai Naoroji
.
Pedro II
, future emperor of
Brazil
.
"
Darwin
's Bulldog"
Thomas Henry Huxley
.
Confederate general
George E. Pickett
, leader of ill-fated "
Pickett's Charge
" at
Gettysburg
.
Hungarian romantic novelist
Mór Jókai
.
American statesman
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
.
American landscape painter
George Inness
.
German chemist
Richard Erlenmeyer
, inventor of the
Erlenmeyer flask
.
French academic painter
Adolphe-William Bouguereau
.
English novelist
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
.
Scottish poetaster
William McGonagall
, renowned as one of the worst poets in the history of
English literature
.
These people died in 1825:
Russian Tsar
Alexander I
. He is succeeded by his son,
Nicholas I
.
French painter
Jacques-Louis David
.
Italian composer
Antonio Salieri
.
Cotton gin
inventor
Eli Whitney
.
Japanese print artist
Toyokuni
Utagawa.
Legendary Japanese sumo wrestler
Raiden Tameemon
.
American statesman
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
.
English poet
Anna Letitia Barbauld
.
James Monroe
's vice president,
Daniel D. Tompkins
.
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19th century
1826
1824
Greek War of Independence
Ibrahim Pasha
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
André-Marie Ampère
Thomas Henry Huxley
1627
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Johann Strauss
Hudson's Bay Company
Bolivia
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle
Diary of Samuel Pepys
Military History
John VI
1820
cotton gin
William Morgan
The Story of the Ashes and the Flame
Antonio Salieri
Paul Kruger