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Born in 1725:
English soldier
Robert Clive
.
Italian
adventurer
and
writer
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
.
Virginia planter (
slaveowner
) and statesman
George Mason
.
English
hymn writer
John Newton
, author of "
Amazing Grace
".
Corsican
rebel leader
Pasquale Paoli
.
English physician and physicist
John Robinson
.
French
mathematician
Jean Étienne Montucla
.
French painter
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
.
English livestock breeder
Robert Bakewell
.
French inventor
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
.
French doctor and geologist
Nicholas Desmarest
.
English painter
Thomas Patch
.
British politician
Charles Townshend
, notorious for certain
Acts
he pushed through
Parliament
when he was
Prime Minister
.
British politician
John Wilkes
.
English poet
Richard Gifford
.
Japanese
artist
Suzuki Harunobu
.
Korean
painter
Kim Yusong
.
Japanese artist
Ippitsusai Buncho
, aka "
Soyoan
".
Died in 1725:
Italian
composer
Alessandro Scarlatti
.
Italian librettist and poet
Silvio Stampiglia
.
Tsar
Peter I
of all the
Russia
s. The
boyars
put his wife
Catherine I
on the throne as their puppet.
(approx.)
Bolivia
n
creole
painter
Melchor Pérez Holguín
.
Japanese Confucian scholar and politician
Arai Hakuseki
.
Japanese dramatist
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
.
Afghan
shah
Mir Mahmud
, murdered by his army after going mad.
Nadir Ashraf
takes over
Afghanistan
and
Persia
.
Murshid Quli Khan Ala' ad Daulah
,
Nawab
of
Bengal
.
Shuja ad Daulah
succeeds him.
Events of 1725:
Johann Sebastian Bach
publishes his
Clavier-Büchlein
for his daughter
Anna
.
(
Kansa
?) Indians destroy the French outpost
Fort Orleans
, near present-day
Jefferson City
,
Missouri
. The French abandon the exploration of the Upper Missouri River, which Europeans will not visit again until
Lewis and Clark
.
British King
George I
revives
The Order of the Bath
as a vehicle for
Prime Minister
Robert Walpole
's patronage.
Diamonds
are discovered in
Brazil
, which replaces
India
as the leading producer of the stones.
French King
Louis XV
marries the daughter of
A Polish nobleman
.
Spain
and
Austria
settle some territorial claims left over from the
War of the Spanish Succession
with the
Treaty of Vienna
.
Great Britain
,
France
,
Prussia
,
Sweden
,
Denmark
and
The Netherlands
form a military alliance with the
Treaty of Hanover
.
1724
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1725
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1726
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1724
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Augustus Keppel, Viscount Keppel
Charles Townshend
Rochambeau
Robert Molesworth
Robert Clive
Peter the Great
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Vitus Bering
Catherine I
Alexander Nevsky
George Mason
offside rule
18th century
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War of the Spanish Succession
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