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.

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.

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

Peter the Great died in 1725, leaving an unsettled succession.

Upon the death of Peter the Great in 1725, Catherine, Peter's wife succeeded to the throne of the Russian Empire as Czarina Catherine I.

Ruling from 1682 to 1725, Peter defeated Sweden in the Great Northern War, forcing it to cede West Karelia and Ingria ( two regions lost by Russia in the Time of Troubles ), as well as Estland and Livland, securing Russia's access to the sea and sea trade.

* June 9 – Emperor Peter I of Russia ( d. 1725 )

Catherine I (; Yekaterina I Alekseyevna, born,, later Marfa Samuilovna Skavronskaya ) ( – ), the second wife of Peter I of Russia, reigned as Empress of Russia from 1725 until her death.

In 1725, Emperor Peter the Great ordered navigator Vitus Bering to explore the North Pacific for potential colonization.

Among people associated with Deptford are Christopher Marlowe, who was murdered at Deptford Strand ; diarist John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ) who lived at Sayes Court, and had Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) as a guest for about three months in 1698 ; and Sir Francis Drake who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind in Deptford Docks.

The Zunghar and Kalmyk states ( a fragment of the map of Russian Empire of Peter The Great, that was created by a Sweden soldier in c. 1725 ).

The sudden death of Peter the Great ( 8 February 1725 ) seriously injured Bestuzhev's prospects.

* Peter I, " The Great ", of Russia, the first Russian czar titled emperor ( 1672 – 1725 )

A Serbian peasant named Peter Plogojowitz died in 1725 was believed to become an authentic strigoi after his death.

Peter Labilliere was born in Dublin on 30th May 1725 to a family of French Huguenot descent.

Their son Sir Peter King was a noted lawyer and politician and served as Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1714 to 1725 and as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1725 to 1733.

## Peter the Great: 1698 – 1725

It was chiefly through the efforts of Menshikov and his colleague Tolstoi that, on the death of Peter, in 1725, Catherine was raised to the throne.

Bering's explorations of 1725 – 30 were part of a larger scheme initially devised by Peter the Great and known as the Great Northern Expedition.

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.

The proposal of the Kuma – Manych Depression as a continental boundary is originally due to Philip Johan von Strahlenberg ( 1725 ), and was officially endorsed by Peter II of Russia in 1730.

He published a number of books decrying the breakdown of the social order, such as The Great Law of Subordination Considered ( 1724 ) and Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business ( 1725 ) and works on the supernatural, like The Political History of the Devil ( 1726 ), A System of Magick ( 1726 ) and An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions ( 1727 ).

They helped keep Great Britain at peace, especially by negotiating a treaty with France and Prussia in 1725.

Several tsaritsas were the rulers of Russia, including empresses Catherine I ( reigned 1725 – 27 ), Anna ( 1730 – 40 ), Elizabeth ( 1741 – 62 ), and Catherine the Great ( 1762 – 96 ).

The Township of London Britain was organized in 1725 from a tract of land belonging to the London Company of Great Britain.

The New Cambridge Modern History VI: The Rise of Great Britain and Russia 1688 – 1725.

The Conestoga wagon was developed around 1725 in the area of the wide opening between Philadelphia and the Great Valley.

This act proved ineffectual and in 1725 An act for the more effectual disarming the highlands in that part of Great Britain called Scotland ; and for the better securing the peace and quiet of that part of the kingdom was passed and more effectively enforced by Major-General George Wade.

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After the Jacobite rebellions of 1715 and 1745, harsh laws providing, amongst other things, for disarming the Highlands of Scotland, were enacted by the Parliament of Great Britain: the Disarming Acts of 1716 and 1725, and the Act of Proscription 1746.

In 1725 he was created Lord King, Baron of Ockham, in the County of Surrey, in the Peerage of Great Britain.

In 1725, it was thought that there might be water below the island, and a well was constructed on Great Shelford Marsh.

To prevent smuggling and extract the quinto, in 1725 the government ordered all gold to be cast into bars in the Casas de Fundição ( Casting Houses ), and sent armies to the region to prevent disturbances and oversee the mining process.

In February 1725, believing a rumour that one of Sultan Husayn's sons, Safi Mirza, had escaped, Mahmud ordered the execution of all the other Safavid princes who were in his hands, with the exception of Sultan Husayn himself.

After the first Kamchatka expedition of Vitus Bering ( 1725 – 1730 ) the Russian exploration efforts were continued by Lieutenant Martin Shpanberg and Navigator I. Fedorov.

In 1725 – 1730 and 1733 – 1743, he was Vitus Bering's deputy during the First and the Second Kamchatka expeditions.

In 1725 – 1727, Luzhin participated in the First Kamchatka Expedition led by Vitus Bering.

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.

A different explanation was provided by Desaguliers ( 1725 ), who demonstrated the strong cohesion forces between lead spheres of which a small cap is cut off and which were then brought into contact with each other.

A 1725 map shows that the fields, subsequently flooded to provide the dam at the site, had been called " Sinder Hills ", the cinders referring to the waste resulting from prior lead smelting activities in the area in the 16th.