1725

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.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1725 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1725
MDCCXXV
Ab urbe condita2478
Armenian calendar1174
ԹՎ ՌՃՀԴ
Assyrian calendar6475
Balinese saka calendar1646–1647
Bengali calendar1132
Berber calendar2675
British Regnal year11 Geo. 1  12 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar2269
Burmese calendar1087
Byzantine calendar7233–7234
Chinese calendar甲辰年 (Wood Dragon)
4421 or 4361
     to 
乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
4422 or 4362
Coptic calendar1441–1442
Discordian calendar2891
Ethiopian calendar1717–1718
Hebrew calendar5485–5486
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1781–1782
 - Shaka Samvat1646–1647
 - Kali Yuga4825–4826
Holocene calendar11725
Igbo calendar725–726
Iranian calendar1103–1104
Islamic calendar1137–1138
Japanese calendarKyōhō 10
(享保10年)
Javanese calendar1649–1650
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4058
Minguo calendar187 before ROC
民前187年
Nanakshahi calendar257
Thai solar calendar2267–2268
Tibetan calendar阳木龙年
(male Wood-Dragon)
1851 or 1470 or 698
     to 
阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
1852 or 1471 or 699

Events

JanuaryMarch

  • 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 2 In London, a night watchman finds a severed head by the River Thames; it is later recognized to be that of the husband of Catherine Hayes. She and an accomplice are later executed.[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.

AprilJune

  • 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]

JulySeptember

  • 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.

OctoberDecember

  • 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 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.
  • Freemasonry is established in France, as an English import.
  • The Four Seasons, a set of violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, is published.

Births

Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa

Deaths

  • 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
    • Arai Hakuseki, Japanese poet, politician, and writer (b. 1657)
    • Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, 8th Duke of Escalona, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1650)
  • 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
    • Francesco del Giudice, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1647)
    • Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France
  • 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
    • Giuseppe Mazzuoli, Italian sculptor (b. 1644)
    • José Mora, Spanish sculptor (b. 1638)
    • Nguyễn Phúc Chu, Vietnamese ruler (b. 1675)
    • Petar Blagojević, Serbian peasant, alleged vampire
    • Alicia D'Anvers, English poet (b. 1688)
  • probable
    • Leendert Hasenbosch, Dutch castaway on Ascension Island (b. c. 1695)
    • Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku, ruler of Hawaii

References

  1. Gee, Tony (2004). "Figg, James (b. before 1700, d. 1734), prize-fighter". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9417. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved June 13, 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Roberts, Randy (1977). "Eighteenth Century Boxing". Journal of Sport History. 4 (3): 249. JSTOR 43610520.
  3. Yosaburō Takekoshi, The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan, Volume 3 (Taylor & Francis, 2004) p395
  4. "Historical Events for Year 1725 | OnThisDay.com". Historyorb.com. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
  5. Bentley, G. E. Jr. (March 2009). "Blake's Murderesses: Visionary Heads of Wickedness". Huntington Library Quarterly. University of California Press. 72 (1): 69–105. doi:10.1525/hlq.2009.72.1.69. JSTOR 10.1525/hlq.2009.72.1.69. At Catherine's urging, "Billings went into the room with a hatchet, with which he struck Hayes so violently that he fractured his skull" but did not kill him. Wood, "taking the hatchet out of Billings's hand, gave the poor man two more blows, which effectually dispatched him." They were then faced with the problem of how to dispose of the body.
  6. "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Archived from the original on January 26, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2016.
  7. Dublin Weekly Journal 26 June 1725. "History of Freemasonry in Ireland". Freemasonry in North Munster. Provincial Grand Lodge of North Munster. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
  8. "Molyneux, Samuel", by Miss A. M. Clerke, in The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 38 (Macmillan and Co., 1894) p136
  9. Cunningham, George Godfrey (1837). Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen: From Alfred the Great to the Latest Times, on an Original Plan. A. Fullarton. p. 57.
  10. Newman, A. N. "KING, Thomas (?bef.1660-1725), of St. Margaret's, Westminster and Sheerness, Kent". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
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