1825

Events in 1825 11

• 1777 – 1825 Alexander I Grand Duke of Finland The Russian Tsar who took Finland from Sweden and granted the country its autonomous status.
• 1825 – 1865 Ambrose Powell Hill (1825-1865) Died 2 April 1865, aged 39 A. P. Hill was a Confederate lieutenant general who commanded the Third Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was killed in action near Petersburg, Virginia, days before Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
• 1825 – 1864 Ferdinand Lassalle (1825-1864) Died 31 August 1864, aged 39 German philosopher and pioneering socialist leader who founded Germany's first workers' political party. He died in Geneva from wounds suffered in a pistol duel over a romantic dispute.
• 1825 – 2026 First Railways of the World The year the railway arrived, country by country The first public railway opened in each country, from the Stockton and Darlington in 1825 to lines that did not arrive until the 21st century. Horse-drawn lines are included where they came first. Plotted together, the dates trace the spread of industrialisation and empire across the world.
• 1825 First railway in United Kingdom Stockton and Darlington Railway The first public railway in the world to carry passengers behind a steam locomotive. George Stephenson drove Locomotion No. 1 the 26 miles from Shildon to Stockton, preceded by a man on horseback carrying a flag.
• 1825 – 1893 Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) Died 16 August 1893, aged 67 French neurologist regarded as a founder of modern neurology, known for his work on hysteria and multiple sclerosis at the Salpetriere hospital. His teaching influenced a young Sigmund Freud.
• 1825 – 1864 John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864) Died 4 September 1864, aged 39 Confederate cavalry general famous for long-range raids into Union territory, including "Morgan's Raid" through Indiana and Ohio. He was killed by Union troops in Greeneville, Tennessee.
• 1825 – 1904 Paul Kruger (1825-1904) Died 14 July 1904, aged 78 Paul Kruger, the president of the South African Republic (Transvaal), died in exile in Clarens, Switzerland. He led Boer resistance against British expansion and became an international symbol of Boer nationalism during the Second Boer War. He fled South Africa in 1900 after British forces occupied Pretoria.
• 1825 – 1868 Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825-1868) Died 7 April 1868, aged 42 McGee was an Irish-Canadian politician, journalist, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. He was assassinated in Ottawa hours after delivering a speech in Parliament, likely in retaliation for his denunciation of the Fenian movement. His killing was Canada's only assassination of a federal politician.
• 1825 – 1895 Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) Died 29 June 1895, aged 70 Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his vigorous public defense of the theory of evolution. He made significant contributions to comparative anatomy and was a leading figure in Victorian scientific education. He died at Eastbourne, England.
• 1825 – 1899 Johann Strauss II Waltz King Austrian composer known as the Waltz King, famous for The Blue Danube and the operetta Die Fledermaus. He defined the sound of 19th-century Vienna.