1725 in Great Britain

none 1725 Events from the year 1725 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George I Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)History of Sir Robert Walpole - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/robert-walpole www.gov.uk 12 June 2023 en Events 2 March – in London, a night watchman finds a severed head by the Thames; it is later recognized to be that of the husband of Catherine Hayes. She and an accomplice are executed the following year.Blake's Murderesses: Visionary Heads of Wickedness Bentley, G. E. Jr. Huntington Library Quarterly 72 1 March 2009 69–105 University of California Press 10.1525/hlq.2009.72.1.69 At Catherine's urging, "Billings went into the room with a hatchet, with which he struck Hayes so violently that he fractured his skull" but did not kill him. Wood, "taking the hatchet out of Billings's hand, gave the poor man two more blows, which effectually dispatched him." They were then faced with the problem of how to dispose of the body. 12 May – the Black Watch is raised as a military company as part of the pacification of the Scottish Highlands under General George Wade.Notable Dates in History http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm The Flag in the Wind The Scots Independent 2016-02-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20160126115905/http://scotsindependent.scot/oldsitearchive/scotind/dates1-d.htm 2016-01-26 dead 18 May – the Order of the Bath is founded by King George I.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 300 https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/300 24 May – Jonathan Wild, fraudulent "Thief Taker General", is hanged in Tyburn, for actually aiding criminals.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750 Icons, a portrait of England 1700–1750 2007-08-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20070817164123/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750 2007-08-17 3 September – Treaty of Hanover signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia.The Pocket Date Book Chapman and Hall William L. R. Cates William Leist Readwin Cates 1863 20 November – the horse-post from Edinburgh to London vanishes after passing through Berwick-upon-Tweed; horse and rider are thought to have perished on tidal sands near Lindisfarne. Undated A fire in Wapping, England destroys 70 houses.The London Encyclopaedia Weinreb, Ben Ben Weinreb Hibbert, Christopher Christopher Hibbert Macmillan 1995 0-333-57688-8 287 Alexander Pope produces an English language translation of Homer's Odyssey. Births 4 February – Dru Drury, entomologist (died 1804) 6 March – Henry Benedict Stuart, cardinal and Jacobite claimant to the British throne (born, and died 1807, in Italy) 28 March – Andrew Kippis, non-conformist clergyman and biographer (died 1795) 25 April – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, admiral (died 1786) 23 May – Robert Bakewell, agriculturalist (died 1795) 1 July – Rhoda Delaval, portrait painter (died 1757) 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 8 April – John Wise, clergyman (born 1652) 24 May – Jonathan Wild, criminal (born 1682) See also 1725 in Wales 1725 References Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1725 by country Category:1725 in Europe Category:1720s in Great Britain