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1725 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 ...
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 executed the following year.
1722–1725: Controversy over William Wood's halfpence leads to the Drapier's Letters and begins the Irish economic independence from England movement. 1723: Slavery is abolished in Russia; Peter the Great converts household slaves into house serfs. [6] 1723–1730: The "Great Disaster", an invasion of Kazakh territories by the Dzungars.
1725) January 2. St George St George, 1st Baron St George, Irish politician (b. 1710) William Napier, 7th Lord Napier, British noble (b. 1730) January 3. Henry Beekman, New York landowner and provincial assemblyman (b. 1687) Robert Campbell, Nova Scotia politician (b. 1718) January 6 – Khawaja Muhammad Zaman of Luari, Sindhi Sufi poet (b. 1713)
12 May – the Black Watch is raised as a military company as part of the pacification of the Highlands under General George Wade. [1]22 June – malt riots in Glasgow against higher taxes on Scottish malt used in the production of distilled beverages. [2]
May 15 – James Fortescue, politician (d. 1782); September 27 – Patrick d'Arcy, mathematician (d. 1779); September 28 (possible date) – Arthur Guinness, brewer and founder of the Guinness Brewery business and family (d.
Events from the year 1725 in Canada. Incumbents. French Monarch: Louis XV [1] British and Irish Monarch: George I [2] Governors.
This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain for the year 1725. For acts passed until 1707, ...