    __notoc__ year 1825 (mdcccxxv) was a common year starting on saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the gregorian calendar and a common year starting on thursday of the 12-day slower julian calendar. == events == === january&ndash;march === * january 4 &ndash; king ferdinand i of the two sicilies is succeeded by his son francis i of the two sicilies. * february 3 &ndash; vendsyssel-thy, once part of the jutland peninsula that formed westernmost denmark, becomes an island after a flood drowns its 1&nbsp;km wide isthmus. * february 9 &ndash; after no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the united states house of representatives elects john quincy adams president of the united states. * february 10 &ndash; simÃ³n bolÃ­var gives up his title of dictator of peru and takes the alternative title of el libertador. * february 12 &ndash; second treaty of indian springs: the creek cede the last of their lands in georgia to the united states government, and migrate west. * march 1 &ndash; the outbound british east indiaman kent (1820) is destroyed by fire in the bay of biscay with the loss of more than 80 lives, but over 550 are saved by passing ships. * march 4 &ndash; john quincy adams succeeds james monroe as president of the united states. === april&ndash;june === * april 17 &ndash; charles x of france recognizes haiti, 21 years after it expelled the french following the successful haitian revolution, and demands the payment of 150 million gold francs, 30 million of which haiti must finance through france itself, as down payment. * may 26 - two unitarian christian bodies, the american unitarian association in the united states and the british and foreign unitarian association in the united kingdom are founded, coincidentally on the same date. === july&ndash;september === * july 6 &ndash; the duke of schleswig-holstein-sonderburg-beck gains possession of glÃ¼cksburg and changes his title to friedrich wilhelm, duke of schleswig-holstein-sonderburg-glÃ¼cksburg. the line of schleswig-holstein-sonderburg-glÃ¼cksburg later becomes the royal house of greece, denmark and norway. * july 18 &ndash; uruguay secedes from brazil. * july 30 &ndash; malden island (an uninhabited island in the central pacific ocean) is discovered. * august 6 &ndash; bolivia gains its independence from spain as a republic with the instigation of simÃ³n bolÃ­var. * august 18 &nda
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