- 1725 in Great Britain
Events from the year
1725 in theKingdom of Great Britain .Incumbents
*Monarch -
George I of Great Britain
*Prime Minister -Robert Walpole , WhigEvents
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18 May - TheOrder of the Bath founded by King George I.citebook|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=300]
*24 May -Jonathan Wild , fraudulent "Thief Taker General", is hanged in Tyburn, for actually aiding criminals. [cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750|accessdate=2007-08-24]
*3 September -Treaty of Hanover signed between Great Britain,France andPrussia .cite book|title=The Pocket Date Book|publisher=Chapman and Hall|author=William L. R. Cates|year=1863]Undated
* The
Black Watch is founded inScotland .
* A fire inWapping inEngland destroys 70 houses. [cite book |title=The London Encyclopaedia|author=Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert|publisher= Macmillan|year= 1995|isbn =0-333-57688-8|pages=287]
*Alexander Pope produces anEnglish language translation ofHomer 's "Odyssey ".Births
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4 February -Dru Drury , entomologist (died 1804)
*11 March -Henry Benedict Stuart , pretender to the British throne (died 1807)
*28 March -Andrew Kippis , non-conformist clergyman and biographer (died 1795)
*25 April -Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel , admiral (died 1786)
*24 July -John Newton , cleric and hymnist (died 1807)
*29 August -Charles Townshend , politician (died 1767)
*29 September -Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive , general and statesman (died 1774)
*17 October -John Wilkes , politician and journalist (died 1797)
*Paul Sandby , cartographer and painter (died 1809)Deaths
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8 April - John Wise, clergyman (born 1652)
*24 May -Jonathan Wild , criminal (born 1682)References
ee also
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