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What Happened In Year 1725?

• May 21, 1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
• September 5, 1725 – Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
• October 4, 1725 – Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.

Who Were Born In The Year 1725?

• February 4, 1725 – Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)
• February 15, 1725 – Abraham Clark, American founding father (d. 1794)
• March 11, 1725 – Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
• March 17, 1725 – Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (d. 1806)
• March 20, 1725 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789)
• March 24, 1725 – Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)
• March 28, 1725 – Andrew Kippis, English clergyman and biographer (d. 1795)
• April 2, 1725 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer (d. 1798)
• April 6, 1725 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (d. 1807)
• April 25, 1725 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1786)
• May 14, 1725 – Ludovico Manin, last Doge of the Republic of Venice (d. 1802)
• July 1, 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French nobleman and soldier (d. 1807)
• July 24, 1725 – John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (d. 1807)
• August 21, 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (d. 1805)
• August 29, 1725 – Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
• September 12, 1725 – Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (d. 1792)
• September 24, 1725 – Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
• September 25, 1725 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (d. 1804)
• September 29, 1725 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman (d. 1774)
• December 11, 1725 – George Mason, American statesman (d. 1792)

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