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1725

Years: 1722 1723 1724 - 1725 - 1726 1727 1728

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

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1725 in literature 1725 in music 1725 in science List of state leaders in 1725 List of religious leaders in 1725

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

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

Births

• 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"

Deaths

• February 8 - Tsar Peter I of Russia
• October 24 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer
• December 7 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (born 1661)
• Jose Mora, Spanish sculptor (born 1638)

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