Title: 1725 Content: == 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)