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| Month | Day | City | State or province | Country | Location | Category | Event |
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| Month | Day | City | State or province | Country | Location | Category | Event |
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| January | 1 | Syria | Politics | The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria. | |||
| January | 3 | Italy | Politics | Benito Mussolini makes a pivotal speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies which will be regarded by historians as the beginning of his dictatorship. | |||
| January | 5 | Wyoming | United States | Politics | Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor (Wyoming) in the United States. | ||
| January | 25 | Sweden | Politics | Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler. | |||
| February | 25 | United States | Social & Culture | Art Gillham records (for Columbia Records) the first Western Electric masters to be commercially released. | |||
| February | 28 | Quebec | Canada | Disaster | The 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America. | ||
| March | 4 | United States | Politics | Calvin Coolidge is sworn in for a full term as President of the United States, in the first inauguration to be broadcast on radio. | |||
| March | 6 | Russia | Social & Culture | Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union. | |||
| March | 15 | Conway | Arkansas | United States | Education | The Phi Lambda Chi fraternity (original name "The Aztecs") is founded on the campus of Arkansas State Teachers' College in Conway, Arkansas (the modern-day University of Central Arkansas). | |
| March | 16 | Yunnan | China | Disaster | At 22:42 local time a 7.0 earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan killing 5,000 people. | ||
| March | 31 | Germany | Art & Music | The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to a building in Dessau designed by Walter Gropius. | |||
| April | 1 | Washington DC | United States | Historical | Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states. | ||
| April | 1 | United States | Politics | The Patent and Trademark Office is transferred to the Department of Commerce. | |||
| April | 10 | New York | United States | Art & Music | F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes his novel The Great Gatsby in New York. | ||
| April | 15 | Germany | Crime | Fritz Haarmann, a serial killer convicted of the murder of 24 boys and young men, is guillotined in Germany. | |||
| April | 16 | Sofia | Bulgaria | Massacre | A communist assault on St Nedelya Church claims roughly 150 lives in Sofia, Bulgaria. | ||
| April | 19 | Santiago | Chile | Sports | Colo-colo, a well-known football club of Chile, is founded in Macul, suburb of Santiago. | ||
| April | 20 | Iran | Conflict | Iranian forces of Reza Shah occupy Ahvaz and arrest Sheikh Khazʽal Ibn Jabir. | |||
| April | 28 | United Kingdom | Politics | Presenting the Stanley Baldwin government's budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announces Britain's return to the gold standard. | |||
| May | 1 | Saudi Arabia | Social & Culture | In the Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia, the al-Baqi' mausoleums are destroyed by King Ibn Saud.Barcelona S.C. founded in Ecuador. | |||
| May | 1 | China | Social & Culture | The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the world's largest trade union organisation, is founded in Guangzhou, Republic of China. | |||
| May | 5 | Japan | Politics | The General Election Law is passed in Japan, extending suffrage to all males aged 25 and over. | |||
| May | 8 | Mississippi | United States | Disaster | African American Tom Lee rescues 32 people from the sinking steamboat M.E. Norman on the Mississippi River. | ||
| May | 16 | Paris | France | Art & Music | The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1639/40) takes place in Paris. | ||
| May | 29 | Brazil | Exploration | English explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife before he disappears in the Amazon. | |||
| June | 6 | United States | Technology | The Chrysler Corporation is founded as an automobile manufacturer by Walter Percy Chrysler in the United States. | |||
| June | 13 | United States | Technology | American engineer Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines and a mechanical system in "the first public demonstration of radiovision". | |||
| June | 14 | Greece | Education | The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece is founded. | |||
| June | 14 | Greece | Sports | The Turkish football club Göztepe is founded. | |||
| June | 29 | Santa Barbara | California | United States | Disaster | The 6.8 Mw Santa Barbara earthquake affects the central coast of California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), destroying much of downtown Santa Barbara, California and leaving 13 people dead. | |
| July | 10 | Dayton | Tennessee | United States | Politics | Scopes Trial: In a staged test case (the "Monkey Trial") in Dayton, Tennessee, United States, John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher (technically arrested on May 5 and indicted on May 25) is accused of assigning a reading from a state-mandated textbook on Darwinian evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law, the "Butler Act". He is found guilty and fined $100, though the verdict is later overturned on a technicality. The trial makes explicit the fundamentalist–modernist controversy within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, with William Jennings Bryan (who dies on July 26) being challenged by the liberal Clarence Darrow. | |
| July | 10 | India | Social & Culture | Meher Baba begins his 44-year silence. | |||
| July | 18 | Germany | Politics | Adolf Hitler publishes Volume 1 of his personal manifesto Mein Kampf in Germany. | |||
| July | 21 | United Kingdom | Sports | English racing motorist Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land when at Pendine Sands in Wales he drives a Sunbeam 350HP automobile at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h). | |||
| July | 25 | Russia | Technology | The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. | |||
| August | 1 | South Africa | Business | The New Cape Central Railway between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways. | |||
| August | 8 | Washington DC | United States | Crime | The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal racist organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington, D.C. | ||
| August | 14 | California | United States | Technology | The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse in California is completed and goes on line. | ||
| August | 25 | Germany | Conflict | The French complete their evacuation of the Ruhr region of Germany. | |||
| August | 31 | American Somoa | Exploration | Anthropologist Margaret Mead lands in American Samoa to begin nine months of field work that will culminate in her 1928 book Coming of Age in Samoa. The bestselling book will become the first popular anthropological study and will change many attitudes towards tribal peoples. | |||
| September | 3 | Caldwell | Ohio | United States | Disaster | The U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah breaks up in a squall line near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14 crewmen. | |
| December | 5 | Portugal | Crime | The major money forgery and fraud of Alves dos Reis is exposed in Portugal. | |||
| October | 1 | South Dakota | United States | Social & Culture | Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated in South Dakota. | ||
| October | 2 | London | England | Technology | In London, UK, John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image. | ||
| October | 8 | Cuba | Aviation | Cubana de Aviación is founded. | |||
| November | 9 | Germany | Politics | Formal foundation date of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in Germany. | |||
| November | 14 | Australia | Politics | 1925 Australian federal election: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Matthew Charlton. | |||
| November | 14 | Paris | France | Art & Music | The first Surrealist art exhibition opens in Paris. | ||
| November | 17 | Dunedin | New Zealand | Social & Culture | The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition, a world's fair, opens in Dunedin, New Zealand. | ||
| November | 24 | Santiago | Chile | Art & Music | The silent film El Húsar de la Muerte is released in Santiago, Chile. | ||
| November | 26 | Thailand | Politics | Prajadhipok (Rama VII) is crowned as King of Siam. | |||
| November | 28 | Nashville | Tennessee | United States | Art & Music | The weekly country music-variety radio programme Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "WSM Barn Dance". | |
| December | 1 | London | United Kingdom | Politics | The Locarno Treaties are signed in London, intended to secure the post-war continental European territorial settlement. | ||
| December | 11 | Vatican City | Italy | Historical | Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ the King, is promulgated. | ||
| December | 12 | San Luis Obispo | California | United States | Business | The first motel in the world, the Milestone Mo-Tel (later the Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo), opens in San Luis Obispo, California. | |
| December | 15 | Iran | Politics | Reza Shah takes the oath to become the first shah of Persia of the Pahlavi dynasty. | |||
| December | 25 | Germany | Business | IG Farben is formed by the merger of six chemical companies in Germany. |