1725
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1690s 1700s 1710s – 1720s – 1730s 1740s 1750s |
| Years: | 1722 1723 1724 – 1725 – 1726 1727 1728 |
| 1725 by topic: | |
| Arts and Sciences | |
| Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science | |
| Countries | |
| Canada – Great Britain – | |
| Lists of leaders | |
| Colonial governors – State leaders | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Works category | |
| Works | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1725 MDCCXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2478 |
| Armenian calendar | 1174 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6475 |
| Bahá'í calendar | −119 – −118 |
| Bengali calendar | 1132 |
| Berber calendar | 2675 |
| British Regnal year | 11 Geo. 1 – 12 Geo. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2269 |
| Burmese calendar | 1087 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7233–7234 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4421 or 4361 — to — 乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4422 or 4362 |
| Coptic calendar | 1441–1442 |
| Discordian calendar | 2891 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1717–1718 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5485–5486 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1781–1782 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1647–1648 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4826–4827 |
| Holocene calendar | 11725 |
| Igbo calendar | 725–726 |
| Iranian calendar | 1103–1104 |
| Islamic calendar | 1137–1138 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 10 (享保１０年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4058 |
| Minguo calendar | 187 before ROC 民前187年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2268 |
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1725. |
Year 1725 (MDCCXXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- February 8 – Catherine I becomes Empress of Russia on the death of her husband, Peter the Great.
- February 20 – The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony.
- March 2 – In London, a 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.
- March 30 – 2nd performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion, BWV 245 (including 5 movements from his Weimarer Passion), at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.
- April 30 – Emperor Charles VI of Austria and King Philip V of Spain sign the Treaty of Vienna.
- May 21 – The Order of Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I.
- May 24 – Jonathan Wild, fraudulent "Thief-Taker General", is hanged at Tyburn in London for actually aiding criminals.
- June 24 – First recorded meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry, and the oldest in continuous existence.[1]
July–December
- September 3 – The Treaty of Hanover is signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia.
Date unknown
- The Black Watch is founded in Scotland.
- A fire in Wapping, England destroys 70 houses.
- In Qing Dynasty China 66 copies of a 5,020 volume long encyclopedia, the Gujin Tushu Jicheng (Complete Collection of Illustrations and Writings from the Earliest to Current Times) are printed, necessitating the crafting of 250,000 movable type characters cast in bronze.
- 1725-1730 - Freemasonry is established in France as an English import.
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
- Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
- 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 steam vehicle pioneer (d. 1804)
- September 29 – Robert 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)
Deaths
- January 6 – Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653)
- January 26 – Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Georgian prince (b. 1658)
- 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. 1682)
- June 29 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese poet, politician, and writer (b. 1657)
- September 16 – Antoine V de Gramont, French military leader (b. 1672)
- 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)
- date unknown
- Giuseppe Mazzuoli, sculptor (b. 1644)
- José Mora, Spanish sculptor (b. 1638)
- Nguyễn Phúc Chu, Vietnamese ruler (b. 1675)
- Peter Plogojowitz, alleged vampire
- probable
- Leendert Hasenbosch, castaway on Ascension Island (b. c. 1695)
- Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku, ruler of Hawaii
References
- ↑ Dublin Weekly Journal 26 June 1725. "History of Freemasonry in Ireland". Freemasonry in North Munster. Provincial Grand Lodge of North Munster. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.