1725

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Year '1725' ('MDCCXXV') was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1725

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1725

January - June

★ February 8 - Catherine I became empress of Russia.

★ February 20 - The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony.

★ March 2 – In London, night watchman finds a severed head by the Thames; it is later recognized to be that of the husband of Catherine Hayes. She and one accomplice are later executed.

★ May 21 - The Order of Alexander Nevsky was instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I.

★ May 24 - Jonathan Wild, fraudulent "Thief Taker General", is hanged in Tyburn, England for actually aiding criminals.

July - December

★ September 3 - Treaty of Hanover signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia.

Undated

★ Black Watch is founded in Scotland.

★ A fire in Wapping in England destroys 70 houses.

Births

★ February 4 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)

★ February 5 - James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783)

★ February 15 - Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1794)

★ February 25 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (d. 1798)

★ March 11 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the British throne (d. 1807)

★ March 17 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (d. 1806)

★ March 20 - Abd-al-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)

★ March 24

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★ Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)

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★ Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (d. 1788)

★ March 28 - Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)

★ April 2 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer (d. 1798)

★ April 6 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (d. 1807)

★ April 23 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (d. 1755)

★ April 25 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (d. 1786)

★ May 12 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (d. 1785)

★ May 25 - Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)

★ July 1 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)

★ July 24 - John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)

★ August 21 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805)

★ August 29 - Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)

★ September 5 - Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician (d. 1799)

★ September 12 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)

★ September 16 - Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)

★ September 24 - Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)

★ September 25 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French automobile pioneer (d. 1804)

★ September 29 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman (d. 1774)

★ October 12 - Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810)

★ October 21 - Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy, Austrian field marshal (d. 1801)

★ December 11 - George Mason, American founding father (d. 1792)

★ December 18 - Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (d. 1791)
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Deaths

★ January 6 - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653)

★ February 8 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (b. 1672)

★ March 2 - José Benito de Churriguera, Spanish architect and sculptor (b. 1665)

★ April 8 - John Wise, English clergyman (b. 1652)

★ May 24 - Jonathan Wild, English criminal (b. 1683)

★ June 29 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese poet, politician, and writer (b. 1657)

★ October 10 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France

★ October 11 - Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (b. 1639)

★ October 24 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)

★ October 31 - Ali Othman, Vampire(b. 1660)

★ December 7 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661)

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★ José Mora, Spanish sculptor (b. 1638)

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★ Nguyễn Phúc Chu, Vietnamese ruler (b. 1675)
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