* 1725 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader ( d. 1807 )

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

* 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter ( d. 1805 )

He afforded refuge in Ottoman territory to Charles XII of Sweden ( 1682 – 1718 ) after the Swedish defeat at the hands of Peter I of Russia ( 1672 – 1725 ) in the Battle of Poltava of 1709.

* Robert Nisbet Bain, The First Romanovs 1613 – 1725 ( London, 1905 ; reprint, New York, 1967 ).

* 1725 – Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer ( d. 1798 )

* 1725 – Charles Townshend, English politician ( d. 1767 )

Alessandro Scarlatti ( 2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725 ) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas.

Abdülhamid I, Abdul Hamid I or Abd Al-Hamid I ( Ottoman Turkish: عبد الحميد اول ` Abdü ’ l-Ḥamīd-i evvel ), which translates to the Servant of God ( March 20, 1725 – April 7, 1789 ), was the 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

* 1725 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral ( d. 1786 )

* 1789 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan ( b. 1725 )

Russia n icon of the prophet Joel ( Iconostasis of Kizhi monastery, c. 1700 – 1725 )

* Il quaresimale in epilogo ( 1725 – 1726 )

* 1725 – George Mason, American statesman ( d. 1792 )

* 1807 – John Newton, English cleric and hymnist ( b. 1725 )

* Elizabeth Darwin ( 15 September 1725 – 8 April 1800 )

* 1725 – Abraham Clark, American founding father ( d. 1794 )

* 1721 – Christian Friedrich Heinecken, German child prodigy ( d. 1725 )

* 1725 – James Otis, American lawyer and patriot ( d. 1783 )

* Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani ( Georgian, 1658 – 1725 ).

George Mason, ( 1725 – 1792 ) after whom the University is named.

Telemann returned to Hamburg, but would still supplement his income by taking up additional jobs: in 1723 – 1726 he served as Kapellmeister von Haus aus to the Bayreuth court, and between 1725 and 1730 he acted as corresponding agent to the court at Eisenach, supplying news from northern Europe.

Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) brought autocracy into Russia and played a major role in bringing his country into the European state system.

Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

* the Order of the Bath, founded by George I in 1725

On 21 May 1725, the empress Catherine I introduced the Imperial Order of St. Alexander Nevsky as one of the highest decorations in the land.

While living in Dublin, Hutcheson published anonymously the four essays he is best known by: the Inquiry concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony and Design, the Inquiry concerning Moral Good and Evil, in 1725, the Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections and Illustrations upon the Moral Sense, in 1728.

His speculations on this subject are contained in the Inquiry concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony and Design, the first of the two treatises published in 1725.

On 22 January 1729 he became Commander of Stettin, after having been chosen there on 24 May 1725 as a knight of Order of the Black Eagle.

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath ( formerly The Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath ) is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725.

The Order of the Bath, founded in 1725, was instituted for similar reasons.

In January 1725, on the revival of the Order of the Bath, the red ribbon was offered to him, but was declined.

The chapel has also been the mother church of the Order of the Bath since 1725, and the banners of members hang above the stalls.

Upon Peter's I death in 1725, his wife Catherine invested the ailing admiral with the Order of Alexander Nevsky and nominated him to the Supreme Privy Council, an exigence of the Great Boyars of Russia headed by influential and coming from a powerful family, Prince Dmitry Galitzine, ( 1665 – 1737 ), Ambassador to Turkey and Poland though necessary to govern in a less autocratic structure the Empire.

Fra ' Sir Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc ( April 18, 1725 la Mancha, Spain-July 14, 1797 Valletta, Malta ) was a member of the wealthy and influential Rohan family of France, and 70th Prince and Grand Master of the Order of Malta from 1775 to 1797.

In 1725 Byng was made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath and in 1727, on the accession of George II, he was made First Lord of the Admiralty.

Its statute was amended by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 26, 1947. It bears a similar name to the Imperial Order of St. Alexander Nevsky which had been established by Empress Catherine I of Russia in 1725, and continued to be bestowed by the heads of the House of Romanov after the 1917 Russian Revolution.

By a Royal Order in 1725 the former tobacco factory was transferred to its current location on land adjacent to the Palace of San Telmo, just outside the Puerta de Jerez ( a gate in the city walls ).

He went on to work at the newly opened St Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1725.

His tomb in St. Peter's was designed by Count Arrigo di San Martino and sculpted ( 1691 – 1725 ) by Angelo de ' Rossi and Giuseppe Bertosi.

Bering departed St. Petersburg in February 1725 at the head of a 34-man expedition, aided by the expertise of lieutenants Martin Spangberg and Aleksei Chirikov.

Thomas Hardwick Senior ( 1725 – 1798 ) and Thomas Hardwick Junior ( 1752 – 1829 ) were both from Brentford and are buried in the old church of St Laurence.

St Thomas ' was founded in the mid-12th Century in the borough and parts of it remain at St Thomas Street ; Guy's was founded opposite this in 1725.

These and other absurdities drew upon him the satire of William Hogarth who, in October 1725, produced a Burlesque on Kent's Altarpiece at St. Clement Danes.

Air America's headquarters moved several times during its existence, 808 17th St. NW, ( 1964 ), 801 World Center Bldg, ( late 1964 ), 815 Connecticut Ave NW, ( July 1968 ), and 1725 K Street NW, ( 1972 ), all in Washington, DC.

Julie Clary was born in Marseille, France, the daughter of François Clary ( Marseille, St. Ferreol, 24 February 1725 – Marseille, 20 January 1794 ), a wealthy silk manufacturer and merchant, and his second wife ( married on 26 June 1759 ) Françoise Rose Somis ( Marseille, St. Ferreol, 30 August 1737 – Paris, 28 January 1815 ).

Désirée Clary was born in Marseille, France, the daughter of François Clary ( Marseille, St. Ferreol, 24 February 1725 – Marseille, 20 January 1794 ), a wealthy silk manufacturer and merchant, and his second wife ( m. 26 June 1759 ) Françoise Rose Somis ( Marseille, St. Ferreol, 30 August 1737 – Paris, 28 January 1815 ).

* The most important church of Gorizia is that of St. Ignatius of Loyola, built by the Jesuits in 1680 – 1725.

The final niche on the right side has a statue of St. Anastasio ( 1725 ) by Bernardino Cametti.

The first three Georges used St James ' Palace as their principal London residence even though it was far from grand for the city palace of a major European monarchy ; Daniel Defoe called it " low and mean " in 1725.

* St. Stephen's Church: Its History for 250 years: 1725 to 1975, by Robert S. Haight, 220 pages,

* John St John, 12th Baron St John of Bletso ( 1725 – 1767 )

Delisle thermometers usually had 2400 or 2700 graduations, appropriate to the winter in St. Petersburg, as he had been invited by Peter the Great to St. Petersburg to found an observatory in 1725.

This is notable in " O Mensch, bewein dein ’ Sünde groß ", the conclusion of the first half – a movement which Bach also used as an opening chorus for the second version ( 1725 ) of his St John Passion ( later – ca.

This single-nave Saint Michael ( Roman Catholic ) | St. Michael's Church with two towers ( 1725 – 1748 ) was built by the Society of Jesus | Jesuits on the foundations of the Kasim-pasha ’ s Mosque.

In 1725 he together with his brother Daniel, with whom he was touring Italy and France at this time, was invited by Peter the Great to the newly founded St. Petersburg Academy.