1725

Years:
1722 1723 1724 - 1725 - 1726 1727 1728

Decades:
1690s 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750s

Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

List of state leaders in 1725
List of religious leaders in 1725

Events

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
Black Watch founded in Scotland
Jonathan Wild, fraudulent "thief-taker general of Great Britain and Ireland" is hanged for aiding criminals

March 11 - Prince Henry Benedict Stuart, later claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Henry IX and figurehead for Jacobitism.
April 2 - Casanova, adventurer and writer (died in 1798)
July 24 - John Newton cleric, songwriter (Amazing Grace).
December 11 - George Mason U.S. Patriot, "Father of the Bill of Rights"


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