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1825

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- Horse-drawn buses in use in London

- Ferdinand IV of Naples dies (b-1751); succeeded by Francis I

- Anglo-Russian treaty over British territory in northwestern North America

- Maximilian I, King of Bavaria, dies; succeeded by Louis I

- Czar Alexander dies; succeeded by Nicholas I

- Liberal group of military officials stage Decemberist Revolt in Russia - crushed

- Tea-roses from China introduced into Europe

- Parliament grants the Duchess of Kent an allowance of £6,000 in addition to the £3,000 from Prince Leopold

- Beginning of construction of the Thames Tunnel (1825-43), world's first underwater tunnel, by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel

- The Diaries of Samuel Pepys published

- Alexander Pushkin publishes Boris Godunov

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1826

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- Ernest I of Saxe-Coburg inherits the Duchy of Gotha upon the extinction of its male line

- Treaty of Yandabu ends Burmese War

- Juan VI, King of Portugal (b-1769), dies; succeeded by Pedro IV, who abdicates in favor of his daughter Maria II

- Ernest I divorces his wife Louise of Saxe-Gotha

- Royal Zoological Society founded

- First railroad tunnel, on Liverpool-Manchester line

- University College, London, founded

- Governess Louise Lehzen created a Hanoverian Baroness by George IV

- James Fenimore Cooper publishes The Last of the Mohicans

- Benjamin Disraeli publishes Vivian Grey

- Walter Scott publishes Woodstock

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1827

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