1725

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s

Years: 1720 1721 1722 1723 1724 - 1725 - 1726 1727 1728 1729 1730

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Events

• 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.

Births

• March 11 - Prince Henry Benedict Stuart, later claimant to the throne of Great Britain as King Henry IX and figurehead for Jacobitism.
• April 2 - Casanova, adventurer and writer (died in 1798)
• July 24 - John Newton cleric, songwriter (Amazing Grace).
• December 11 - George Mason U.S. Patriot, "Father of the Bill of Rights"

Deaths

• February 8 - Tsar Peter I of Russia
• Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer\n

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