World Events 1825-1829

Date

Event

1825	The Decembrist revolt, led by Russian officers who favored a constitutional monarchy, is suppressed by the cavalry of Czar Nicholas I.
1825	South American statesman Simón Bolívar is elected president of Peru.
1825	Simón Bolívar organizes a new republic in southern Peru, which is named Bolivia in his honor.
1827	The first part of Birds of America by American naturalist, ornithologist, and artist John James Audubon is published.
1828	An American Dictionary of the English Language, the first uniquely American dictionary, by American lexicographer Noah Webster is published.