* 1825 – George Pickett, American Confederate general ( d. 1875 )

* 1825 – Malden Island is discovered by captain George Byron, 7th Baron Byron.

* 1825 – George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer ( d. 1898 )

** George Chalmers, Scottish antiquarian ( d. 1825 )

* July 30 – George Pickett, American Confederate General ( b. 1825 )

* March 1 – George Bruce Malleson, Indian officer and author ( b. 1825 )

* George Phillips Bond ( 1825 – 1865 ), American astronomer, son of William Cranch Bond ( below )

The character of Humpty Dumpty was popularised in the United States by actor George L. Fox ( 1825 – 77 ).

American actor George L. Fox ( 1825 – 77 ) helped to popularise the character in nineteenth-century stage productions of pantomime, music and rhyme.

The Georgia Governor George Troup and his cousin William McIntosh, chief of the Lower Creek, signed the Treaty of Indian Springs ( 1825 ), ceding the last Muscogee ( Creek ) lands claimed by Georgia.

It was based on experience gained from earlier designs by George and Robert Stephenson, including the Killingworth locomotive Blücher ( 1814 ); Locomotion No 1 ( 1825 ); and the Lancashire Witch ( 1828 ).

The first lenses for correcting Astigmatism were constructed by the British astronomer George Airy in 1825.

* George Dance ( 1741 – 1825 ), architect lived at 91 Gower Street.

Izard County is Arkansas's thirteenth county, formed on October 27, 1825, and named for War of 1812 General and Arkansas Territorial Governor George Izard.

The tract of land on which the original town of Waterloo was laid out was purchased in 1818 by George Forquer later an Illinois State Senator, 5th Secretary of State of Illinois ( 1825 – 1828 ), 5th Illinois Attorney General ( 1829 – 1832 ) and most famously an early political enemy of Abraham Lincoln.

Attica was laid out by George Hollingsworth and platted by David Stump on March 19, 1825.

In 1825, George Patterson sold of Springfield Estate to his friend and business associate, James Sykes.

Among many early settlers was George Hawkins, purchased lot 50 in 1825.

Probably the earliest settler on the site of North Tonawanda was George N. Burger, who came in 1809 and built a log tavern on the river ; he remained a resident until about 1825.

A. Lyman ; 1821 – 1822, Lewis Bullock ; 1823, George Sipperly ; 1824, J. Brower ; 1825, N. B. Harris ; 1826, Calvin Thompson ; 1827, William F. Averill ; 1828 – 1831, H. R. Bristol ; 1832, N. B. Harris ; 1833, G. Sipperly ; 1834, N. B. Harris ; 1835, G. Reed ; 1836 – 1837, M. Peck ; 1838 – 1841, George Horton ; 1842 – 1844, J.

Marcus Peck ; 1825 – 1826, William F. Averill ; 1827 – 1833, Marcus Peck ; 1834, Peter F. Westervelt ; 1835 – 1837, John I. Vosburgh ; 1838 – 1839 ; John H. Gregory ; 1840, Calvin Sliter ; 1841, John H. Gregory ; 1842 – 1843, Solomon Coons ; 1844, Reuben A. Thomas ; 1845, S. V. R. Cole ; 1846, David Fonda ; 1847, David Luce ; 1848, Lorenzo M. Lown ; 1849 – 1850, William L. Stewart, jr .; 1851, Jacob Boyce ; 1852, W. H. Wicks ; 1853, Joseph Alden ; 1854, William H. Lyons ; 1855, Samuel D. Seymour ; 1856, Harmon Westfall ; 1857, George Sliter ; 1858, Albert H. Dutcher ; 1859 – 1861, George Sliter ; 1862, D. E. Barnes ; 1863, William H. Ford ; 1864, B. M. Wilkinson ; 1865, Jeffrey P. Thomas ; 1866 – 1867, David Horton ;

* George Schalk was born in Germany in November 1825, trained as a locksmith, and moved to America after military service in 1862.

Hackworth only stayed until the end of that year, following which, he returned to Walbottle occupying his time with contract work until, upon the recommendation of George Stephenson, he was appointed on 13 May 1825 to the position of locomotive superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a post he was to occupy until May 1840

* Robert Stephenson 1825 Stockton and Darlington

Stephenson was put in charge of the project and the line opened on 27 September 1825.

Built by George and Robert Stephenson's company Robert Stephenson and Company in 1825.

* 1825 – The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.

* 1825 – The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.

* September 27, 1825 – The world's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens in England.

* October 26, 1825 – The Erie Canal opens, providing passage from Albany, New York to Buffalo and Lake Erie.

The Stockton and Darlington Railway opened on 27 September 1825.

Steam-hauled public railways began with the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825.

In 1825 he built the Locomotion for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, north east England, which became the first public steam railway.

Shortly after the completion of the Stockton and Darlington railway in 1825, coal transport prices began falling rapidly.

George used Locomotion in 1825 for the opening of the Stockton and Darlington line, which Robert had helped to survey.

This road has been numbered the A135 ( and named ' 1825 Way ' in commemoration of the Stockton and Darlington Railway ), replacing the old A135 route which was previously the A19.

Stockton is famous for its associations with the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which operated the world's first steam-hauled passenger train in 1825 and the town also has the world's oldest passenger railway station building.

In 1825, Thornaby, centred around St Peter's Church and the old village green was gradually overshadowed by the burgeoning newly named town of South Stockton which was two miles away.

In 1825 South Stockton became the site of William Smiths pottery and the area quickly grew with the establishment of shipbuilding and engineering.

The earliest recorded example was the ' Royal George ' built by Timothy Hackworth for the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825.

On the edge of the town is the Bishop Auckland to Darlington railway branch line which is part of the 1825 Stockton and Darlington Railway.

In 1825 the Act of Parliament was obtained for a " railway or tramroad " to be propelled by " stationary or locomotive steam engines ," which was remarkably prescient, considering few people considered steam locomotives to be feasible, and George Stephenson's Stockton and Darlington Railway was barely open in far-away County Durham.

Following the successful opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1825 and 1830 respectively, several schemes were put forward for railways in south east England, including the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway of 1830 and the London and Greenwich Railway ( L & GR ), which was constructed between 1833 and 1835.

The town grew considerably when the Stockton and Darlington Railway established its workshops there in 1825.

Edward Pease ( 1767 – 1858 ), a woollen manufacturer from Darlington, England, was the main promoter of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which opened in 1825.

The Locomotion Museum is sited near Timothy Hackworth's Soho Works on the Stockton and Darlington Railway ( opened on 27 September 1825 with a train hauled by Locomotion No 1 which took 2 hours to complete the 12 mile journey from Shildon to Darlington ).

After the opening of the Stockton and Darlington railway in 1825, the search for coal escalated dramatically in the West Auckland area and the population increased as a consequence with the promise of employment.

After the building of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825, a number of ambitious projects for long-distance lines between cities had been mooted.

It hauled the first train on the Stockton and Darlington Railway on 27 September 1825.