Events from the year 1725 in Great Britain.
Incumbents Monarch – George I Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig)
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. 12 May – the Black Watch is raised as a military company as part of the pacification of the Scottish Highlands under General George Wade. 18 May – the Order of the Bath is founded by King George I. 24 May – Jonathan Wild, fraudulent "Thief Taker General", is hanged in Tyburn, for actually aiding criminals. 3 September – Treaty of Hanover signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia. 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. 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
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