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:
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.
1725 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1725
MDCCXXV
Ab urbe condita2478
Armenian calendar1174
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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)
4422 or 4215
     to 
乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
4423 or 4216
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

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JulySeptember

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

Births

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 (b. c. 1643)
  • 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

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  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.
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