January 20 –
James Figg hosts the first recorded international boxing match, fought between English livestock
drover Bob Whitaker and Venetian
gondolier Alberto di Carni in London.[1][2]
January – 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. [3]
May 24 –
Jonathan Wild, fraudulent Thief-Taker General, is hanged at
Tyburn in London, for actually aiding criminals.
June 23 – The
Malt tax riots begin in
Scotland in
Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, after the price of beer and scotch whiskey increases. Earlier in the year, the British government extended the taxes in England on
malted grain to brewers and distilleries in Scotland. The rioting then spreads throughout Scot counties.
August 27 – At least 216 people die in the sinking of the
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 – The day after they meet for the first time, the wedding ceremony of
King Louis and
Marie takes place in
Fontainebleau, making her the Queen Consort of France. Their marriage lasts for almost 43 years until her death in 1768.
October 23 – 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 – The fourth and final treaty of the
1725 Peace of Vienna is signed to create an alliance between Austria and Spain.
December 12 –
Johan Willem Ripperda of the
Netherlands, the former Dutch Ambassador to Spain, arrives in
Madrid and claims that
King Philip V has appointed him as the new
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.
^Dublin Weekly Journal 26 June 1725.
"History of Freemasonry in Ireland". Freemasonry in North Munster. Provincial Grand Lodge of North Munster. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
^"Molyneux, Samuel", by Miss A. M. Clerke, in The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 38 (Macmillan and Co., 1894) p136
January 20 –
James Figg hosts the first recorded international boxing match, fought between English livestock
drover Bob Whitaker and Venetian
gondolier Alberto di Carni in London.[1][2]
January – 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. [3]
May 24 –
Jonathan Wild, fraudulent Thief-Taker General, is hanged at
Tyburn in London, for actually aiding criminals.
June 23 – The
Malt tax riots begin in
Scotland in
Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, after the price of beer and scotch whiskey increases. Earlier in the year, the British government extended the taxes in England on
malted grain to brewers and distilleries in Scotland. The rioting then spreads throughout Scot counties.
August 27 – At least 216 people die in the sinking of the
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 – The day after they meet for the first time, the wedding ceremony of
King Louis and
Marie takes place in
Fontainebleau, making her the Queen Consort of France. Their marriage lasts for almost 43 years until her death in 1768.
October 23 – 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 – The fourth and final treaty of the
1725 Peace of Vienna is signed to create an alliance between Austria and Spain.
December 12 –
Johan Willem Ripperda of the
Netherlands, the former Dutch Ambassador to Spain, arrives in
Madrid and claims that
King Philip V has appointed him as the new
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.
^Dublin Weekly Journal 26 June 1725.
"History of Freemasonry in Ireland". Freemasonry in North Munster. Provincial Grand Lodge of North Munster. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
^"Molyneux, Samuel", by Miss A. M. Clerke, in The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 38 (Macmillan and Co., 1894) p136