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Calendar year
September 3 : The
Hanoverian Alliance (in red) is made between Great Britain, France, Prussia and the Electorate of Hanover after the
April 30 formation of the
Viennese Alliance (in blue) between
Austria ,
Spain and the
Holy Roman Empire .
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1725 (
MDCCXXV ) was a
common year starting on Monday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Friday of the
Julian calendar , the 1725th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 725th year of the
2nd millennium , the 25th year of the
18th century , and the 6th year of the
1720s decade. As of the start of 1725, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
January 15 –
James Macrae , a former captain of a freighter for the
British East India Company , is hired by the Company to administer the
Madras Presidency (at the time, the "Presidency of Fort St. George"), and begins major reforms. At the time, the area administered is most of
Southern India , including what is now the Indian state of
Andhra Pradesh , parts the states of
Tamil Nadu ,
Kerala ,
Karnataka ,
Telangana ,
Odisha and the union territory of
Lakshadweep .
January 20 –
James Figg hosts the first recorded international boxing match, fought between English livestock
drover Bob Whitaker and Venetian
gondolier Alberto di Carni in London.
[1]
[2]
January 25 – The Spanish corsair
Amaro Pargo receives the title of
Hidalgo (nobleman).
January – In Japan, the policy of the
Gonin-gumi organizing groups of every five households in a town into units collectively responsible for the good behavior of everyone in the unit, goes into effect as the register of units is completed by the
Tokugawa shogunate .
[3]
February 8 – (January 28
Old Style )
Catherine I becomes Empress of Russia, on the death of her husband,
Peter the Great .
[4]
February 20 – The first reported case of white men
scalping
Native Americans takes place in
New Hampshire
colony .
March 25 – Bach's
chorale cantata
Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern , BWV 1 , is first performed on the
Feast of the Annunciation , coinciding with
Palm Sunday .
[5]
March 30 – The second performance of
Johann Sebastian Bach 's
St John Passion ,
BWV 245 (including 5 movements from his
Weimarer Passion ), takes place at
St. Thomas Church, Leipzig .
April–June
April 30 –
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor and King
Philip V of Spain sign the
Treaty of Vienna .
May 12 – The
Black Watch is raised as a military company, as part of the pacification of the
Scottish Highlands under General
George Wade .
[6]
May 21 – On the day of the grand wedding of her daughter
Anna to the
Duke of Holstein-Gottorp , Empress
Catherine I of Russia creates the
Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky
May 24 –
Jonathan Wild , fraudulent Thief-Taker General , is hanged at
Tyburn in London, for actually aiding criminals.
June 23 – The
Malt tax riots begin in
Scotland in
Hamilton, South Lanarkshire , after the price of beer and scotch whiskey increases. Earlier in the year, the British government extended the taxes in England on
malted grain to brewers and distilleries in Scotland. The rioting then spreads throughout Scot counties.
June 24 – The
Grand Lodge of Ireland in
Dublin holds its first recorded meeting, making it the second most senior
Grand Lodge in world
Freemasonry , and the oldest in continuous existence.
[7]
July–September
July 8 –
Mattheus de Haan becomes the new Governor-General of the
Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), governing until his death on June 1, 1729 in
Batavia (now
Jakarta ).
July 15 –
Sir Richard Everard becomes the 4th
Governor of North Carolina .
August 15 – The civil marriage of
King Louis XV of France and Princess
Maria Leszczyńska of Poland is held at
Strasbourg . The King is not present, and his cousin, the
Duke of Orléans , serves as his
proxy .
August 27 – At least 216 people die in the sinking of the
Chameau , a ship of the
French Navy , after the vessel is driven by a storm into rocks off of the coast of
Nova Scotia . Reportedly, 180 bodies wash ashore near
Louisbourg . The ship's cargo, which included a fortune in gold and silver coins, is discovered 240 years later in 1965.
September 5 – The day after they meet for the first time, the wedding ceremony of
King Louis and
Marie takes place in
Fontainebleau , making her the Queen Consort of France. Their marriage lasts for almost 43 years until her death in 1768.
September 16 – The
Treaty of Hanover is signed between Great Britain,
France and
Prussia .
October–December
October 19 –
Johan Paul Schagen in appointed by the
Dutch East India Company to serve as the Governor of Ceylon after the death of
Johannes Hertenberg .
October 23 – Russia dispatches 1,500 troops and 120 civilians to Russia's border with China, on a mission to survey the boundaries in order to make a treaty with the Chinese Empire. Serbian adventurer
Sava Vladislavich leads a group of cartographers to prepare maps in advance of traveling on to
Beijing .
November 5 – The fourth and final treaty of the
1725 Peace of Vienna is signed to create an alliance between Austria and Spain.
November 8 – The first newspaper in the
Province of New York , the
New-York Gazette , is introduced by
William Bradford as a weekly publication.
November 22 –
Chief Chicagou of the
Mitchigamea tribe, and chiefs of five other tribes of the
Illini Confederation , are received as guests of King
Louis XV in Paris. Chicagou pledges the Illini's support of the French presence in North America.
November 26 – British astronomers
James Bradley and
Samuel Molyneux set up a telescope in Molyneux's private observatory to begin their observations of
stellar parallax of the star
Gamma Draconis .
[8] The observations, which start on December 3, lead to Bradley's pioneering discovery of the
aberration of light .
December 12 –
Johan Willem Ripperda of the
Netherlands , the former Dutch Ambassador to Spain, arrives in
Madrid and claims that
King Philip V has appointed him as the new
Prime Minister . The bluff is successful and he is granted authority by the King's advisers, but after four months, he is forced to resign.
December 15 – A treaty is signed by chiefs of four member tribes of the
Wabanaki Confederacy (the
Abenaki ,
Pequawket ,
Mi'kmaq ,
Maliseet ) and representatives of three British provinces in North America (
Massachusetts Bay ,
New Hampshire and
Nova Scotia ) and their allies, the
Mohawk nation , bringing an end to
Dummer's War , named for acting Massachusetts Bay Governor
William Dummer .
Date unknown
The
Terengganu Sultanate is established at Terengganu Darul Iman (now known as Terengganu Darul Iman, Malaysia).
A fire in
Wapping , London, destroys 70 houses.
In
Qing dynasty China, 66 copies of a 5,020 volume-long
encyclopedia , the
Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China are printed, necessitating the crafting of 250,000
movable type characters cast in bronze.
Freemasonry is established in France, as an English import.
The Four Seasons , a set of violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, is published.
Gradus ad Parnassum , a seminal work on counterpoint, laying out rules of constructing music, is published by
Johann Joseph Fux
Births
Giacomo Casanova
Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa
Robert Clive
January 25 –
Antoine Court de Gébelin , French pastor (d.
1784 )
February 4 –
Dru Drury , English entomologist (d.
1803 )
February 5
February 15 –
Abraham Clark , American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d.
1794 )
February 25 –
Karl Wilhelm Ramler , German poet (d.
1798 )
February 26 –
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot , French steam vehicle pioneer (d.
1804 )
March 6 –
Henry Benedict Stuart , Italian-born cardinal, Jacobite claimant to the British throne (d.
1807 )
March 17 –
Lachlan McIntosh , Scottish-born American military and political leader (d.
1806 )
March 20 –
Abdul Hamid I ,
Ottoman Sultan (d.
1789 )
March 24
March 28 –
Andrew Kippis , English non-conformist clergyman, biographer (d.
1795 )
[9]
April 2 –
Giacomo Casanova , Italian adventurer, writer (d.
1798 )
April 6 –
Pasquale Paoli , Corsican patriot, military leader (d.
1807 )
April 23 –
Gerard Majella , Italian
Catholic lay brother and
saint (d.
1755 )
April 25 –
Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel , British admiral (d.
1786 )
May 4 –
Johan August Meijerfeldt the Younger , Swedish field marshal (d.
1800 )
May 12 –
Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans , French soldier, writer (d.
1785 )
May 25 –
Samuel Ward , American politician (d.
1776 )
June 29 –
Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa , Italian ruler (d.
1790 )
July 1 –
Rhoda Delaval , English portrait painter (d.
1757 )
July 4
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
September 24 –
Arthur Guinness , Irish brewer (d.
1803 )
September 29 –
Robert Clive , British general, statesman (d.
1774 )
October 12 –
Étienne Louis Geoffroy , French pharmacist, 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, Bible commentator (d.
1791 )
December 23 –
Ahmad Shah Bahadur , 14th
Mughal Emperor (d.
1775 )
date unknown –
Magdalena Dávalos y Maldonado , Ecuadorian scholar, socialite (d.
1806 )
Deaths
Emperor
Peter I of Russia
Jonathan Wild
January 6 –
Chikamatsu Monzaemon , Japanese dramatist (b.
1653 )
January 26 –
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani , Georgian prince (b.
1658 )
January 29 –
Nuno Álvares Pereira de Melo, 1st Duke of Cadaval , Portuguese nobleman and statesman (b.
1638 )
February 7 –
Johann Philipp Krieger , German Baroque composer (b.
1649 )
February 8 – Emperor
Peter I of Russia (b.
1672 )
March 2 –
José Benito de Churriguera , Spanish architect, sculptor (b.
1665 )
March 10 –
John Conyers , English politician (b.
1650 )
March 30 –
René de Froulay de Tessé , French Marshal and diplomat (b.
1648 )
April 8 –
John Wise , English clergyman (b.
1652 )
April 12 –
Giovanni Battista Foggini , Italian artist (b.
1652 )
April 25 –
Paul de Rapin , French historian (b.
1661 )
May 22 –
Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth , Irish politician (b.
1656 )
May 24 –
Jonathan Wild , English criminal (b.
1682 )
May 31 –
Erik Carlsson Sjöblad , Swedish governor, admiral, and baron (b.
1647 )
June 29
July 11 –
Salomon Franck , German lawyer, scientist, poet (b.
1659 )
July 17 –
Thomas King , English and British soldier, MP for Queenborough, lieutenant-governor of Sheerness (b. before 1660?)
[10]
September 16 –
Antoine V de Gramont , French military leader (b.
1672 )
October 10
October 11 –
Hans Herr , Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (b.
1639 )
October 16 –
Ralph Thoresby , British historian (b.
1658 )
October 24 –
Alessandro Scarlatti ,
Italian composer (b.
1660 )
November 20 –
William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg (from 1683) (b.
1648 )
December 7 –
Florent Carton Dancourt , French dramatist, actor (b.
1661 )
December 10 –
Nicolaas Hartsoeker , Dutch mathematician and physicist (b.
1656 )
date unknown
probable
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