Events from the year
1725
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. Ge ...
in
Great Britain.
Incumbents
*
Monarch –
George I
*
Prime Minister –
Robert Walpole
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(
Whig)
*
Parliament –
6th
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In mathematics
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Events
* 2 March – 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 an accomplice are later executed.
* 12 May – the
Black Watch is raised as a military company as part of the pacification of the
Scottish Highlands under General
George Wade.
* 18 May – the
Order of the Bath is founded by King
George I.
* 24 May –
Jonathan Wild, fraudulent "Thief Taker General", is
hanged in
Tyburn, for actually aiding criminals.
* 3 September –
Treaty of Hanover signed between Great Britain,
France and
Prussia.
* 20 November – the horse-post from Edinburgh to London vanishes after passing through
Berwick-upon-Tweed; horse and rider are thought to have perished on tidal sands near
Lindisfarne
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.
[
]
Undated
* A fire in Wapping, England destroys 70 houses.
Births
* 4 February – Dru Drury, entomologist (died 1804
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Haiti gains independence from France, and becomes the first black republic, having the only successful slave revolt ever.
* February 4 – The Sokoto Caliphate is founded in West Africa.
* Februar ...
)
* 6 March – Henry Benedict Stuart, cardinal and Jacobite claimant to the British throne (born, and died 1807, in Italy)
* 28 March – Andrew Kippis, non-conformist clergyman and biographer (died 1795
Events
January–June
* January – Central England records its coldest ever month, in the Central England temperature, CET records dating back to 1659.
* January 14 – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Uni ...
)
* 25 April – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel
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, admiral (died 1786
Events
January–March
* January 3 – The third Treaty of Hopewell is signed, between the United States and the Choctaw.
* January 6 – The outward bound East Indiaman '' Halsewell'' is wrecked on the south coast of Englan ...
)
* 23 May – Robert Bakewell, agriculturalist (died 1795)
* 1 July – Rhoda Delaval, portrait painter (died 1757
Events
January–March
* January 2 – Seven Years' War: The British Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta, India.
* January 5 – Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt ...
)
* 24 July – John Newton, cleric and hymnist (died 1807
Events
January–March
* January 7 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland issues an Order in Council prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies.
* January 20 – The Sierra Leone Company, faced with b ...
)
* 29 August – Charles Townshend
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, politician (died 1767
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The first annual volume of ''The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris'', produced by British Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, gives navigators the ...
)
* 29 September – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, general and statesman (died 1774
Events
January–March
* January 21 – Mustafa III, List of Ottoman Sultans, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I.
* January 27
** An angry crowd in Boston, Massachusetts seizes, tars, and f ...
)
* 17 October – John Wilkes, politician and journalist (died 1797
Events
January–March
* January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli, a peace treaty between the United States and Ottoman Tripolitania, is signed at Algiers (''see also'' 1796).
* January 7 – The parliament of the Cisalpine Re ...
)
* Paul Sandby, cartographer and painter (died 1809
Events
January–March
* January 5 – The Treaty of the Dardanelles, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Ottoman Empire, is concluded.
* January 10 – Peninsular War – French Marshal Jean ...
)
Deaths
* 8 April – John Wise, clergyman (born 1652)
* 24 May – Jonathan Wild, criminal (born 1682)
See also
References
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Years in Great Britain