1825

Events from the year 1825 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: James Monroe (DR-VA) (until March 4), John Quincy Adams (DR-MA) (starting March 4)
* Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins (DR-NY) (until March 4), John C. Calhoun (DR-SC) (starting March 4)
* Chief Justice: John Marshall (VA)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: Henry Clay (DR-KY) (until March 4), John W. Taylor (DR-NY) (starting December 5)
* Congress: 18th (until March 4), 19th (starting March 4)
==Events==
===January - March===
* January 10 – Indianapolis becomes the capital of Indiana (moved from Corydon, Indiana).
* February 9 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of U.S. Electoral College votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States in a contingent election.
* February 12 – Treaty of Indian Springs: The Lower Creek Council, led by William McIntosh, cedes a large amount of Creek territory in Georgia to the United States government.
* March 4 – John Quincy Adams is sworn in as the 6th President of the United States, and John C. Calhoun is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
* March 17 – The Norfolk & Dedham Group is founded as The Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
===April - June===
* April 30 – Upper Creek chief Menawa leads an attack that assassinates William McIntosh for signing the Treaty of Indian Springs.
* May 11 – American Tract Society is founded.
* June 2 – The Osage Nation cedes traditional lands by treaty.
* June 3 – Kansa Nation cedes its territory to the United States.
* June 11 – The first cornerstone is laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City.
===July - September===
* July 14 – The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society is founded by 16 disgruntled members of the now-defunct Patrick Henry Society in Room 7, West Lawn, of the University of Virginia.
* August 19 – First Treaty of Prairie du Chien at Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
===October - December===
* October 26 – The Erie Canal opens, granting passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
* November 7 – Treaty of St. Louis: 1,400 Missouri Shawnees are forcibly relocated from Missouri to Kansas.
* November 12 – New Echota designated capital of the Cherokee Nation.
* November 26 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society as the first college social fraternity (it is the first to combine aspects of secret Greek-letter societies, literary societies and formalized student social groups).
==Memoriam==
* January 8 – Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin and milling machine (aged 59; New Haven, CT, USA)
* January 14 – Robert Goodloe Harper, U.S. Senator from Maryland 1816 (aged 60; Baltimore, MD, USA)
* February 6 – William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts, 6th United States Secretary of War (aged 71; Boston, MA, USA)
* March 1 – John Haggin, "Indian fighter" and early settler of Kentucky (aged 72; Harrodsburg, KY, USA)
* March 4 – Hercules Mulligan, tailor and spy during the American Revolutionary War (aged 84; New York City, NY, USA)
* March 25 – Raphaelle Peale, still-life painter (aged 51; Philadelphia, PA, USA)
* June 1 – Daniel D. Tompkins, 6th Vice President of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (aged 50; Staten Island, NY, USA)
* June 4 – Morris Birkbeck, writer and social reformer (aged 61; White County, IL, USA)
* June 14 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect and civil engineer (aged 70; Prince George's County, MD, USA)
* August 16 – Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, politician and soldier (aged 79; Charleston, SC, USA)
* August 27 – Lucretia Maria Davidson, poet (aged 16; Plattsburgh, NY, USA)
* December 28 – James Wilkinson, soldier and statesman (aged 68; Mexico City, Mexico)
==External links==
* 1825 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 5