1725 in Great Britain
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Events from the year 1725 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George I of Great Britain
- Prime Minister - Robert Walpole, Whig
[edit] Events
- 18 May - The Order of the Bath founded by King George I.[1]
- 24 May - Jonathan Wild, fraudulent "Thief Taker General", is hanged in Tyburn, for actually aiding criminals.[2]
- 3 September - Treaty of Hanover signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia.[3]
[edit] Undated
- The Black Watch is founded in Scotland.
- A fire in Wapping in England destroys 70 houses.[4]
- Alexander Pope produces an English language translation of Homer's Odyssey.[1]
[edit] Births
- 4 February - Dru Drury, entomologist (died 1804)
- 11 March - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the British throne (died 1807)
- 28 March - Andrew Kippis, non-conformist clergyman and biographer (died 1795)
- 25 April - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, admiral (died 1786)
- 24 July - John Newton, cleric and hymnist (died 1807)
- 29 August - Charles Townshend, politician (died 1767)
- 29 September - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, general and statesman (died 1774)
- 17 October - John Wilkes, politician and journalist (died 1797)
- Paul Sandby, cartographer and painter (died 1809)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] References
- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 300. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750. Retrieved on 2007-08-24.
- ^ William L. R. Cates (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
- ^ Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert (1995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan, 287. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
[edit] See also
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