What happened in 1925

27 events　World 1, Japan 1, North America 6, Europe 14, USSR / Russia 1, Asia 2, Middle East 2

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Highlights of 1925

World1

  • Lion Feuchtwanger's novel Jud Süß (translated as Jew Süss or Power) is published in Germany.

Japan1

  • May 5The General Election Law is passed in Japan, extending suffrage to all males aged 25 and over.

North America6

  • Jan 27The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. Territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic.
  • Feb 28The 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
  • Mar 18The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U.S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2,027. It hits the towns of Murphysboro, Illinois; West Frankfort, Illinois; Gorham, Illinois; Ellington, Missouri; and Griffin, Indiana.
  • Apr 10F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is published in New York.
  • Jul 10Scopes 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.
  • Nov 28The weekly country music-variety radio programme Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the "WSM Barn Dance".

Europe14

  • Jan 25Hjalmar Branting resigns as Prime Minister of Sweden because of ill health, and is replaced by the minister of trade, Rickard Sandler.
  • Mar 21Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortilèges, to a libretto by Colette, is premiered at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo.
  • Apr 15Fritz Haarmann, a serial killer convicted of the murder of 24 boys and young men, is guillotined in Germany.
  • AprOctober – The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes is held in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style.
  • May 29English explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife before he disappears in the Amazon.
  • Jun 14The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece is founded.
  • Jul 18Adolf Hitler publishes Volume 1 of his personal manifesto Mein Kampf in Germany.
  • Jul 25The Temporary Slavery Commission of the League of Nations files its report on their global investigation of slavery and the slave trade, preparing the ground for the introduction of the 1926 Slavery Convention.
  • Oct 5The Locarno Treaties are negotiated.
  • Oct 19Incident at Petrich: A brief conflict occurs between Bulgaria and Greece after a Greek soldier accidentally crosses into the Bulgarian side and is shot by border guards.
  • Nov 9Formal foundation date of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in Germany.
  • Dec 1The Locarno Treaties are signed in London, intended to secure the post-war continental European territorial settlement.
  • Dec 11Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ the King, is promulgated.
  • Dec 14Wozzeck, Alban Berg's first opera, is premiered at the Berlin State Opera conducted by Erich Kleiber.

USSR / Russia1

  • Mar 6Pionerskaya Pravda, one of the oldest children's newspapers in Europe, is founded in the Soviet Union.

Asia2

  • Mar 16At 22:42 local time a 7.0 earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan killing 5,000 people.
  • May 1The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the world's largest trade union organisation, is founded in Guangzhou, Republic of China.

Middle East2

  • Jan 1The Syrian Federation is officially dissolved, the State of Aleppo and the State of Damascus having been replaced by the State of Syria.
  • Dec 15Reza Shah takes the oath to become the first shah of Persia of the Pahlavi dynasty.