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Statue of Simon Bolivar in Paris, France[/caption]
In the year 1825, Simon Bolivar gives up his title of dictator of Peru, and is now called El Libertador (Feb 10), the Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government, and migrate west (Feb 12), Uruguay secedes from Brazil (Jul 18), Bolivia gains independence from Spain (Aug 6), the world’s first public railway to use steam locomotives opens in England (Sep 27), London takes over Beijing as the largest city in the world, the U.S. Senate ratifies treaties with several native American tribes - and all these fine people were born:
1825-0101 1825-0102 Hans von Specht* German-American farmer/postmaster/to U.S. at age 19 - Braunschweig, Saxony (1913/88) 1825-0107 Julius Erasmus Hilgard* German-American engineer/to U.S. at age 10 - Zweibrücken, Rhineland-Palatinate (1891/66) 1825-0110 1825-0111 Clement V.Rogers* senator/ judge/of Cherokee descent - Westville, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory (1911/72) 1825-0114 Georg Franz Heinrich Stockmann* German businessman/founder of Stockmann in Helsinki - Ritzerau, Schleswig-Holstein (1906/80) 1825-0116 George Pickett* army officer/farmer/insurance salesman - Richmond, VA USA (1875/50) 1825-0116 Carl Abraham Pihl* Norwegian civil engineer/railway pioneer - Stavanger, Sweden-Norway (1897/72) 1825-0120 1825-0127 Balduin Möllhausen* German traveler/writer/artist - Bonn, Kingdom of Prussia (1905/80) 1825-0131 Miska Magyarics* Hungarian Slovene poet - Mali Dolenci, Kingdom of Hungary (1883/57) 1825-0201 Francis James Child* scholar/ educator/folklorist - Boston, MA USA (1896/71) 1825-0208 Henri Giffard* engineer/inventor of the steam injector and the first powered and steerable airship to fly - Paris, France (1882/57) 1825-0210 Geoffrey Hornby* Royal Navy officer - Winwick, Lancashire, England (1895/70) 1825-0222 William Young Sellar* classical scholar - Morvich, Sutherland, Scotland (1890/65) 1825-0228 Berthold Carl Seemann* German botanist - Hanover (1871/46) 1825-0302 Johannes Zimmermann* German missionary/ethnolinguist/translator of the Bible into the Ga language - Gerlingen, Baden-Württemberg (1876/51) 1825-0310 Ernst Albert Naether* German enterpreneur (baby transport) - Zeitz, Sachsen-Anhalt (1894/69) 1825-0313 Hans Gude* painter - Christiania, Sweden-Norway (1903/78) 1825-0313 Benjamin Mountfort* architect - Birmingham, England (1898/73) 1825-0321 Alexander Mozhaysky* admiral/aeronautical pioneer - Rochensalm, GD of Finland, Russian Empire (1890/65) 1825-0322 Jane Mackenzie* (b Sym) m to the second Prime Minister of Canada - Elphin, Upper Canada (1893/68) 1825-0330 Samuel B. Maxey* soldier/ lawyer/politician - Tompkinsville, KY USA(1895/70) 1825-0404 Heinrich Hasselhorst* German painter/drawing teacher - Frankfurt am Main (1904/79) 1825-0411 Emanuel Hoffmann* Austrian philologist - Neiße, Silesia (1900/75) 1825-0411 Ferninand Lassalle* philosopher/socialist - Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (1864/39) 1825-0417 Johann Fürst* Austrian actor/singer/theater director - Wien (1882/57) 1825-0420 Ida Seele* daycare supervisor (Fröbel) - Nordhausen, Thuringia (1901/76) 1825-0424 R. M. Ballantyne* author of juvenile fiction/painter - Edinburgh, Scotland (1894/68) 1825-0430 Charles Monselet* journalist/ writer/playwright - Nantes, Kingdom of France (1888/62) 1825-0501 George Inness* landscape painter - Newburgh, NY USA (1894/69) 1825-0504 Thomas Henry Huxley* biologist - Ealing, Middlesex, England (1895/70) 1825-0508 George Bruce Malleson* officer active in India/author - Wimbledon, England (1898/72) 1825-0509 George Davidson* British-American geodesist/astronomer/to U.S. at age 7 - Nottingham, England (1911/86) 1825-0513 John Lawrence LeConte* entomologist - New York City, NY USA (1883/58) 1825-0518 Daniel B. Wesson* firearms designer/ industrialist - Worchester, MA USA (1906/81) 1825-0520 Antoinette Brown Blackwell* the first U.S. woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister/ women’s rights advocate - Henrietta, NY USA (1921/96) 1825-0526 Felipe Gutiérrez y Espinosa* composer - San Juan, Puerto Rico (1899/74) 1825-0603 Sophie Sager* Swedish-American writer/feminist - Växjö, Sweden (1902) 1825-0608 Charles Joshua Chaplin* painter/w English father - Les Andelys, Eure, Kingdom of France (1891/65) 1825-0610 Sondre Norheim* (b Auverson) Norwegian skier/pioneer of modern skiing - Morgedal, Telemark, Sweden-Norway (1897/71) 1825-0626 George Frankenstein* (b Tracht) German-American painter/journalist/to U.S. at age 6 - Raidelbach, Hesse (1911/86) 1825-0628 Emil Erlenmeyer* German chemist - Wehen, Duchy of Nassau (1909/83) 1825-0702 Émile Ollivier* statesman/ historian - Marseille, Kingdom of France (1913/88) 1825-0712 Mordecai Cubitt Cooke* botanist/ mycologist/author - Horning, Norfolk, England (1914/89) 1825-0719 George H. Pendleton* lawyer/ politician - Cincinnati, OH USA (1889/64) 1825-0721 Práxedes Mateo Sagasta* civil engineer/politician/PM - Torrecilla en Cameros, Logroño, Spain (1903/77) 1825-0731 August Beer* German physicist/chemist/mathematician - Trier, Kingdom of Prussia (1863/38) 1825-0802 J. Neely Johnson* lawyer/ politician/Governor of California - Gibson County, IN USA (1872/47) 1825-0802 Julius Schulhoff* Bohemian pianist/ composer - Prague, Austrian Empire (1898/72) 1825-0810 István Türr* Hungarian revolutionary/canal architect/peace activist - Baja (1908/82) 1825-0824 Charles Wels* Czech-American pianist/composer/to U.S. at age 24 - Prague, Austrian Empire (1906/80) 1825-0831 Robert Dunsmuir* Scottish-Canadian coal mine developer/ industrialist/ politician - Hurlford, Scotland (1889/63) 1825-0904 Dadabhai Naoroji* merchant/ politicical leader/writer - Navsari, Bombay Presidency, British India (1917/91) 1825-0911 Eduard Hanslick* music critic/aesthetician/historian - Prague, Austrian Empire (1904/78) 1825-0913 William Henry Rinehart* sculptor - Union Bridge, MD USA (1874/49) 1825-0917 Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar* lawyer/politician/diplomat - Eatonton, GA USA (1893/67) 1825-0925 Joachim Heer* Swiss politician - Glarus (1879/53) 1825-0930 1825-1008 Paschal Beverly Randolph* medical doctor/occultist/writer - New York City, NY USA (1875/49) 1825-1010 Paul Kruger* Boer resistance leader/President of the South African Republic (1883-1900) - Steynsburg, Cape Colony (1904/78) 1825-1011 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer* poet/ historical novelist - Zürich, Swiss Confederation (1898/73) 1825-1013 Charles Frederick Worth* pioneering fashion designer - Bourne, Lincolnshire, England (1895/69) 1825-1025 Johann Strauss II* composer - St Ulrich, Austria (1899/73) 1825-1109 A. P. Hill* Confederate general - Culpeper, VA USA (1865/39) 1825-1128 Heinrich Auer* industrialist/mill owner - Köln, German Confederation (1892/66) 1825-1129 Jean Martin Charcot* neurologist/known as “the founder of modern neurology”/introduced the term amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Paris, Kingdom of France (1893/67) 1825-1130 William-Adolphe Bouguereau* painter - La Rochelle, Kingdom of France (1905/79) 1825-1202 Pedro II* Emperor of Brazil - Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil (1891/66) 1825-1210 1825-1218 Mariano Ignacio Prado* army general/P - Huánuco, Peru (1901/74) 1825-1230 Samuel Newitt Wood* attorney/ politician - Mount Gilead, OH USA (1891/65) 1825-1231 Elizabeth M. Olmsted* poet - Caledonia, NY USA (1910/84) Updated 30.1.2023-3 Search for another year here