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See also:	History of the United States (1789–1849) Timeline of the history of the United States (1820-1859) List of years in the United States

The following are events from the year1825 in the United States.

• President:

James Monroe (DR-Virginia) (until March 4)

John Quincy Adams (DR/NR-Massachusetts) (starting March 4)

• Vice President:

Daniel D. Tompkins (DR-New York) (until March 4)

John C. Calhoun (D-South Carolina) (starting March 4)

• Chief Justice:John Marshall (Virginia)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:

Henry Clay (DR-Kentucky) (until March 4)

John W. Taylor (DR-New York) (starting December 5)

• Congress:18th (until March 4),19th (starting March 4)

• January 10 –Indianapolis becomes the capital ofIndiana (moved fromCorydon, Indiana).
• February 9 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority ofU.S. Electoral College votes, theUnited States House of Representatives electsJohn Quincy Adams asPresident of the United States in acontingent election.
• February 12 –Treaty of Indian Springs: TheLower Creek Council, led byWilliam McIntosh, cedes a large amount of Creek territory inGeorgia to the United States government.
• March 4 –John Quincy Adams is sworn in as the sixthpresident of the United States, andJohn C. Calhoun is sworn in as the seventhvice president.
• March 17 –The Norfolk & Dedham Group is founded as The Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company.

• April 30 –Upper Creek chiefMenawa leads an attack that assassinatesWilliam McIntosh for signing theTreaty of Indian Springs.
• May 11 –American Tract Society is founded.
• June 3 –Kansa Nation cedes its territory to the United States (seeHistory of Kansas).
• June 11 – The first cornerstone is laid forFort Hamilton inNew York City.

• July 14 – TheJefferson Literary and Debating Society is founded by 16 disgruntled members of the now-defunctPatrick Henry Society in Room 7, WestLawn, of theUniversity of Virginia.
• August 19 –First Treaty of Prairie du Chien atFort Crawford,Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin

• October 25 – TheErie Canal opens, granting passage fromAlbany, New York toLake Erie.
• November 7
  • Treaty of St. Louis: 1,400 MissouriShawnees are forcibly relocated fromMissouri toKansas (seeHistory of Kansas).
  • Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy: LawyerJereboam O. Beauchamp murders Kentucky legislatorSolomon P. Sharp in a family feud, becaming the first person legally executed in the state.
• November 12 –New Echota designated as the capital of theCherokee Nation.
• November 26 – AtUnion College inSchenectady, New York a group of college students formKappa Alpha Society as the firstcollege socialfraternity (it is the first to combine aspects of secret Greek-letter societies, literary societies and formalized student social groups).

• TheOsage Nation cedes traditional lands by treaty.
• TheCherokee Nation officially adoptsSequoyah'ssyllabary.
• Vancouver, Washington is established by Dr.John McLoughlin on behalf of theHudson's Bay Company.
• Ypsilanti, Michigan is established.
• Vicksburg, Mississippi is incorporated.
• New Harmony, Indiana established as a social experiment, built by theHarmony Society and sold toRobert Owen.
• TheUnited States Postal Service starts adead letter office.
• Centenary College of Louisiana is founded in Jackson, Louisiana. The campus later moves to Shreveport, Louisiana.

• Era of Good Feelings (1817–1825)
• John Neal publishing serially the first written history of American literature,American Writers (1824–1825)^[1]

• January 5 –John Mason Loomis, lumber tycoon, Union militia colonel in the American Civil War and philanthropist (died1900)
• January 11
  • Clement V. Rogers, Cherokee politician and father ofWill Rogers (died1911)
  • Bayard Taylor, poet and travel writer (died1878)
• January 25 –George Pickett,Confederate general in theAmerican Civil War (died1876)
• February 11 –Frank Pidgeon, baseball pitcher (died1884)
• April 7 –John H. Gear, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1895 to 1900 (died1900)
• April 17 –Jerome B. Chaffee, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1876 to 1879 (died1886)
• June 1 –John Hunt Morgan, Confederate general in the American Civil War (died1864)
• July 2 –Richard Henry Stoddard, critic and poet (died1903)
• July 10 –Benjamin Paul Akers, sculptor (died1861)
• July 15 –Joseph Carter Abbott, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1868 to 1871 (died1881)
• July 19 –George H. Pendleton, politician (died1889)
• August 7 –Jacob Wrey Mould, New York architect, illustrator, linguist and musician (died 1886)^[2]
• August 10 –Edmund Spangler, carpenter and stagehand employed at Ford's Theatre at the time of theassassination of Abraham Lincoln (died1875)
• September 13 –William Henry Rinehart, sculptor (died1874)
• September 17 –Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, politician andAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died1893)
• September 24 –Frances Harper, née Watkins, African American poet and abolitionist (died1911)
• October 8 –Paschal Beverly Randolph, occultist (died1875)
• October 25 –Francis March, comparative linguist (died1911)
• November 9 –A. P. Hill, Confederate general (killed1865 in the American Civil War)
• December 18 –John S. Harris, U.S. Senator from Louisiana from 1868 to 1871 (died1906)
• December 30
  • Newton Booth, U.S. Senator from California from 1875 to 1881 (died1892)
  • Samuel Newitt Wood, politician (died1891)

• January 8 –Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin and milling machine (born1765)
• March 1 –John Haggin, "Indian fighter" and early settler of Kentucky (born1753)
• March 4 –Hercules Mulligan, tailor and spy during theAmerican Revolutionary War (born1740)
• March 4 –Raphaelle Peale, still-life painter (born1774)
• June 4 –Morris Birkbeck, writer and social reformer (born1764)
• June 11 –Daniel Tompkins, sixthvice president of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (born 1774)
• June 14 –Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect and civil engineer (born1754 in France)
• August 16 –Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, politician and soldier (born1746)
• August 27 –Lucretia Maria Davidson, poet (born1808; died of consumption)
• December 28 –James Wilkinson, soldier and statesman (born1757)

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