Editing 1725 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]] leads the first performance of his [[Chorale cantata cycle|chorale cantata]] [[Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41|''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41]], which features the trumpet fanfares from the beginning also in the end.<ref>{{cite web
  | url = http://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000056?lang=en
  | title = ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41; BC A 22
  | website = [[Bach Digital]]
  | date = 2024
  | access-date = 15 December 2024
  | ref = {{sfnref|Bach Digital|2024}}
  }}</ref><ref>{{cite book
  | last1 = Dürr
  | first1 = Alfred
  | author1-link = Alfred Dürr
  | last2 = Jones
  | first2 = Richard D. P.
  | author2-link = Richard D. P. Jones
  | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=m9JuwslMcq4C&pg=PA148
  | chapter = ''Jesu, nun sei gepreiset'', BWV 41
  | title = The Cantatas of J. S. Bach: With Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text
  | location = Oxford
  | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]
  | date = 2006
  | pages = 148–151
  | isbn = 978-0-19-969628-4
  }}</ref>
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]] leads the first performance of [[Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123|''Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen'', BWV 123]], a [[Chorale cantata cycle|chorale cantata]] for [[Epiphany (holiday)|Epiphany]].<ref>{{cite web
  | url = https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000150?lang=en
  | title = Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen BWV 123; BC A 28
  | website = [[Bach Digital]]
  | date = 2025
  }}</ref>
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[James Macrae]], a former captain of a freighter for the [[British East India Company]], is hired by the Company to administer the [[Madras Presidency]] (at this time, the "Presidency of Fort St. George"), and begins major reforms. The area administered is most of [[Southern India]], including what is now the Indian state of [[Andhra Pradesh]], parts the states of [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Kerala]], [[Karnataka]], [[Telangana]], [[Odisha]] and the union territory of [[Lakshadweep]]. 
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[James Figg]] hosts the first recorded international boxing match, fought between English livestock [[Droving|drover]] Bob Whitaker and Venetian [[Gondola|gondolier]] Alberto di Carni in London.<ref>{{cite ODNB|last=Gee | first=Tony | title=Figg, James (b. before 1700, d. 1734), prize-fighter | year=2004 |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-9417 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9417 | isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |access-date=13 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Randy |date=1977 |title=Eighteenth Century Boxing |journal=Journal of Sport History |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=249 |jstor=43610520}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] &ndash; The Spanish corsair [[Amaro Pargo]] receives the title of [[Hidalgo (nobility)|Hidalgo]] (nobleman).
* January &ndash; In Japan, the policy of the [[Gonin Gumi]] organizing groups of every five households in a town into units collectively responsible for the good behavior of everyone in the unit, goes into effect as the register of units is completed by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. <ref>Yosaburō Takekoshi, ''The Economic Aspects of the History of the Civilization of Japan'', Volume 3 (Taylor & Francis, 2004) p395</ref>
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]] leads the first performance of his [[Chorale cantata cycle|chorale cantata]] [[Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125|''Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin'', BWV 125]], based on [[Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin|Luther's paraphrase]] of the [[Nunc dimittis]].<ref>{{cite web
  | url = https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000152?lang=en
  | title = Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin BWV 125; BC A 168
  | website = [[Bach Digital]]
  | date = 2025
  | access-date = 26 January 2025
  }}</ref>
* [[February 8]] &ndash; (January 28 [[Old Style]]) [[Catherine I of Russia|Catherine I]] becomes Empress of Russia on the death of her husband, [[Peter the Great]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1725 |title=Historical Events for Year 1725 &#124; OnThisDay.com |website=Historyorb.com |access-date=2016-07-08}}</ref> 
* [[February 20]] &ndash; The first reported case of white men [[scalping]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] takes place in [[New Hampshire]] [[colony]].
* [[February 23]] &ndash; [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]] leads his ''[[Tafelmusik|Tafel-Music]]'' ''[[Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen, BWV 249a|Shepherd Cantata]]'' for the birthday of [[Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels]].<ref>{{cite web
  | url = https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000318?lang=en
  | title = Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet ihr Sorgen BWV 249.1; BWV 249a; BC [G 2]
  | website = [[Bach Digital]]
  | date = 2025
  | access-date = 19 February 2025
  }}</ref>
* [[March 25]] &ndash; Bach's [[Chorale cantata (Bach)|chorale cantata]] [[Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1|''Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern'', BWV 1]], is first performed on the [[Feast of the Annunciation]], coinciding with [[Palm Sunday]].<ref> {{cite book | last = Leisinger | first = Ulrich | author-link = Ulrich Leisinger | translator-last = Kosviner | translator-first = David | url = https://www.carusmedia.com/images-intern/medien//30/3100100/3100100x.pdf | title = Johann Sebastian Bach / Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern / How beauteous is the morning star / BWV 1 | publisher = [[Carus-Verlag]] | location = Stuttgart | date = 1998 | page = 4 }}</ref>
* [[March 30]] &ndash; The second performance of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]'s ''[[St John Passion]]'', [[BWV]] 245 (including 5 movements from his ''[[Weimarer Passion]]''), takes place at [[St. Thomas Church, Leipzig]].

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]]'s later ''[[Easter Oratorio]]'' in its first version is performed at the [[St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig|Nikolaikirche]] in Leipzig on [[Easter|Easter Sunday]].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000317?lang=en | title = Kommt, fliehet [gehet] und eilet, ihr flüchtigen Füße BWV 249.3; BWV 249; BC D 8a | website = [[Bach Digital]] | date = 2025 | access-date = 2 April 2025 | ref = {{sfnref|Bach Digital cantata|2025}}}}</ref>
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]]'s cantata [[Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6|''Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden'', BWV 6]], is first performed in Leipzig on [[Easter Monday]].<ref name="BD">{{cite web | url = https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000007?lang=en | title = Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden BWV 6; BC A 57 | work = [[Bach Digital]] | date = 2025 }}</ref>
* [[April 30]] &ndash; [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor]] and King [[Philip V of Spain]] sign the [[Treaty of Vienna (1725)|Treaty of Vienna]].
* [[May 12]] &ndash; The [[Black Watch]] is raised as a military company, as part of the pacification of the [[Scottish Highlands]] under General [[George Wade]].<ref name=NDIH>{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History|url=http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm|work=The Flag in the Wind|publisher=[[The Scots Independent]]|access-date=2016-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126115905/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm|archive-date=January 26, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] &ndash; Bach leads the first performance of his cantata [[Ich bin ein guter Hirt, BWV 85|''Ich bin ein guter Hirt'', BWV 85]], about Jesus as the [[Good Shepherd]].<ref>{{cite web
  | url = http://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalWork_work_00000109?lang=en
  | title = Ich bin ein guter Hirt BWV 85; BC A 66
  | work = [[Bach Digital]]
  | date = 2025
  | access-date = 2 May 2025}}</ref>
* [[May 21]] &ndash; On the day of the grand wedding of her daughter [[Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia|Anna]] to the [[Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp|Duke of Holstein-Gottorp]], Empress [[Catherine I]] of Russia creates the [[Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky]] 
* [[May 24]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Wild]], fraudulent 'Thief-Taker General', is hanged at [[Tyburn]] in London, for actually aiding criminals.
* [[June 23]] &ndash; The [[Malt tax riots]] begin in [[Scotland]] in [[Hamilton, South Lanarkshire]], after the price of beer and scotch whisky increases.  Earlier in the year, the British government extended the taxes in England on [[malt|malted grain]] to brewers and distilleries in Scotland. The rioting then spreads throughout Scottish counties.  
* [[June 24]] &ndash; The [[Grand Lodge of Ireland]] in [[Dublin]] holds its first recorded meeting, making it the second most senior [[Grand Lodge]] in world [[Freemasonry]], and the oldest in continuous existence.<ref>''Dublin Weekly Journal'' 26 June 1725. {{cite web|title=History of Freemasonry in Ireland|url=http://www.freemasonsnorthmunster.com/Freemasonry_History.htm|work=Freemasonry in North Munster|publisher=Provincial Grand Lodge of North Munster|access-date=2012-08-30}}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 8]] &ndash; [[Mattheus de Haan]] becomes the new Governor-General of the [[Dutch East Indies]] (modern-day Indonesia), governing until his death on June 1, 1729 in [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Batavia]] (modern [[Jakarta]]).
* [[July 15]] &ndash; [[Sir Richard Everard, 4th Baronet|Sir Richard Everard]] becomes the 4th [[Governor of North Carolina]].
* [[August 15]] &ndash; The civil marriage of [[Louis XV|King Louis XV of France]] and Princess [[Maria Leszczyńska]] of Poland is held at [[Strasbourg]]. The King is not present, and his cousin, the [[Louis, Duke of Orléans (1703–1752)|Duke of Orléans]], serves as his [[Proxy marriage|proxy]]. 
* [[August 27]] &ndash; At least 216 people die in the sinking of the [[French ship Chameau|''Chameau'']], a ship of the [[French Navy]], after the vessel is driven by a storm into rocks off of the coast of [[Nova Scotia]]. Reportedly, 180 bodies wash ashore near [[Louisbourg]].  The ship's cargo, which included a fortune in gold and silver coins, is discovered 240 years later in 1965.
* [[September 5]] &ndash; The day after they meet for the first time, the wedding ceremony of [[Louis XV|King Louis]] and [[Marie Leszczyńska|Marie]] takes place in [[Fontainebleau]], making her the Queen Consort of France.  Their marriage lasts for almost 43 years until her death in 1768.
* [[September 16]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Hanover (1725)|Treaty of Hanover]] is signed between Great Britain, [[Kingdom of France|France]] and [[Prussia]].

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 19]] &ndash; [[Joan Paul Schaghen]] is appointed by the [[Dutch East India Company]] to serve as the Governor of Ceylon after the death of [[Johannes Hertenberg]]. 
* [[October 23]] &ndash; Russia dispatches 1,500 troops and 120 civilians to Russia's border with China, on a mission to survey the boundaries in order to make a treaty with the Chinese Empire.  Serbian adventurer [[Sava Vladislavich]] leads a group of cartographers to prepare maps in advance of traveling on to [[Beijing]].
* [[November 5]] &ndash; The fourth and final treaty of the [[Peace of Vienna (1725)|1725 Peace of Vienna]] is signed to create an alliance between Austria and Spain.
* [[November 8]] &ndash; The first newspaper in the [[Province of New York]], the ''[[New-York Gazette]]'', is introduced by [[William Bradford (printer, born 1663)|William Bradford]] as a weekly publication.
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[Agapit Chicagou|Chief Chicagou]] of the [[Mitchigamea]] tribe, and chiefs of five other tribes of the [[Illinois Confederation|Illini Confederation]], are received as guests of King [[Louis XV]] in Paris. Chicagou pledges the Illini's support of the French presence in North America.
* [[November 26]] &ndash; British astronomers [[James Bradley]] and [[Samuel Molyneux]] set up a telescope in Molyneux's private observatory to begin their observations of [[stellar parallax]] of the star [[Gamma Draconis]].<ref>"Molyneux, Samuel", by Miss A. M. Clerke, in ''The Dictionary of National Biography'', Volume 38 (Macmillan and Co., 1894) p136</ref> The observations, which start on December 3, lead to Bradley's pioneering discovery of the [[aberration of light]].
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[John William, Baron Ripperda|Johan Willem Ripperda]] of the [[Netherlands]], the former Dutch Ambassador to Spain, arrives in [[Madrid]] and claims that [[Philip V of Spain|King Philip V]] has appointed him as the new [[Prime Minister of Spain|Prime Minister]]. The bluff is successful and he is granted authority by the King's advisers, but after four months, he is forced to resign.
* [[December 15]] &ndash; A treaty is signed by chiefs of four member tribes of the [[Wabanaki Confederacy]] (the [[Abenaki]], [[Pequawket]], [[Mi'kmaq people|Mi'kmaq]], [[Maliseet]]) and representatives of three British provinces in North America ([[Province of Massachusetts Bay|Massachusetts Bay]], [[Province of New Hampshire|New Hampshire]] and [[Nova Scotia]]) and their allies, the [[Mohawk nation]], bringing an end to [[Dummer's War]], named for acting Massachusetts Bay Governor [[William Dummer]].

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* The [[Terengganu Sultanate]] is established at Terengganu Darul Iman (in modern Malaysia).
* A fire in [[Wapping]], London, destroys 70 houses.
* In [[Qing dynasty]] China, 66 copies of a 5,020 volume-long [[encyclopedia]], the ''[[Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China]]'' are printed, necessitating the crafting of 250,000 [[movable type]] characters cast in bronze.
* [[Freemasonry]] is established in France, as an English import.
* ''[[The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)|The Four Seasons]]'', a set of violin concertos by [[Antonio Vivaldi]], is published.
* ''[[Gradus ad Parnassum]]'', a seminal work on counterpoint, laying out rules of constructing music, is published by [[Johann Joseph Fux]].</onlyinclude>