1725

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 Orleans, 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-Etienne 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 - Jose 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
Jose Mora, Spanish sculptor (b. 1638)
Nguyen Phuc Chu, Vietnamese ruler (b. 1675)