1725

1725 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1725; MDCCXXV
Ab urbe condita	2478
Armenian calendar	1174; ԹՎ ՌՃՀԴ
Assyrian calendar	6475
Balinese saka calendar	1646–1647
Bengali calendar	1132
Berber calendar	2675
British Regnal year	11 Geo. 1 – 12 Geo. 1
Buddhist calendar	2269
Burmese calendar	1087
Byzantine calendar	7233–7234
Chinese calendar	甲辰年 (Wood Dragon); 4421 or 4361; — to —; 乙巳年 (Wood Snake); 4422 or 4362
Coptic calendar	1441–1442
Discordian calendar	2891
Ethiopian calendar	1717–1718
Hebrew calendar	5485–5486
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1781–1782
- Shaka Samvat	1646–1647
- Kali Yuga	4825–4826
Holocene calendar	11725
Igbo calendar	725–726
Iranian calendar	1103–1104
Islamic calendar	1137–1138
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 10; (享保１０年)
Javanese calendar	1649–1650
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4058
Minguo calendar	187 before ROC; 民前187年
Nanakshahi calendar	257
Thai solar calendar	2267–2268
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

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s – 1720s – 1730s 1740s 1750s
Years:	1722 1723 1724 – 1725 – 1726 1727 1728

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.

Events

January 25 – Amaro Pargo receives the title of Hidalgo (nobleman).
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.
May 21 – The Order of Alexander Nevsky was instituted in Russia by an empress Catherine I.
May 24 – Jonathan Wild, fraudulent "Thief Taker General", is hanged in Tyburn, England for actually aiding criminals.

Births

February 4 – Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)
February 5 – James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783)
February 15 – Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1794)
February 25 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (d. 1798)
March 11 – Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the British throne (d. 1807)
March 17 – Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (d. 1806)
March 20 – Abd-al-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)
March 24
- Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
- Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (d. 1788)
March 28 – Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)
April 2 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer (d. 1798)
April 6 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (d. 1807)
April 23 – Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (d. 1755)
April 25 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (d. 1786)
May 12 – Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (d. 1785)
May 25 – Samuel Ward, American politician (d. 1776)
July 1 – Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)
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 – Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
September 24 – Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
September 25 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French automobile pioneer (d. 1804)
September 29 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman (d. 1774)
October 12 – Etienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and 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 and Bible commentator (d. 1791)

Deaths

January 6 – Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b. 1653)
February 8 – Tsar Peter I of Russia (b. 1672)
March 2 – José Benito de Churriguera, Spanish architect and sculptor (b. 1665)
April 8 – John Wise, English clergyman (b. 1652)
May 24 – Jonathan Wild, English criminal (b. 1683)
June 29 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese poet, politician, and writer (b. 1657)
October 10 – Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France
October 11 – Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (b. 1639)
October 24 – Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
October 31 – Ali Othman, Vampire(b. 1660)
December 7 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661)
date unknown
- José Mora, Spanish sculptor (b. 1638)
- Nguyễn Phúc Chu, Vietnamese ruler (b. 1675)