In 1725, Newton was born in Wapping, a district in London near the Thames.

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.

It was discovered in 1725 and later explained by the third Astronomer Royal, James Bradley, who attributed it to the finite speed of light and the motion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun.

The discovery of the aberration of light in 1725 by James Bradley was one of the most important in astronomy.

When James Bradley and Samuel Molyneux entered this sphere of astronomical research in 1725, there consequently prevailed much uncertainty whether stellar parallaxes had been observed or not ; and it was with the intention of definitely answering this question that these astronomers erected a large telescope at the house of the latter at Kew.

The instrument was set up in November 1725, and observations on γ Draconis were made on the 3rd, 5th, 11th, and 12 December.

A fire in the late 17th century was followed by some repairs, but in 1725 the family purchased 17th century Aberdour House, on the west side of the burn and in Wester Aberdour, and the medieval Castle was allowed to fall into relative decay.

In 1648 there appeared the play Le Gran Tamerlan et Bejezet by Jean Magnon, and in 1725 Handel's Tamerlano was first performed and published in London ; Vivaldi's version of the story, Bajazet, was written in 1735.

As a result of that incident ( and / or of a visit paid with some schoolmates to a local brothel ) he was expelled from the school and had to leave the city ( 1725 ).

It was settled between 1725 and 1727 by Captain Ebenezer Eastman and others from Haverhill, Massachusetts.

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.

Isidro Sepúlveda, William Jackson and George Hills explicitly refute it ( Sepúlveda points out that if such a fact had actually happened, it would have caused a big crisis in the Alliance supporting the Archduke Charles ; George Hills explains that the story was first accounted by the Marquis of San Felipe, who wrote his book " Comentarios de la guerra de España e historia de su rey Phelipe V el animoso " in 1725, more than twenty years after the fact ; the marquis was not an eye-witness and cannot be considered as a reliable source for the facts that took place in Gibraltar in 1704.

Van Deinse points out that the " scrag whale ", described by P. Dudley in 1725 as one of the species hunted by the early New England whalers, was almost certainly the gray whale.

Van Deinse points out the " scrag whale ", described by P. Dudley in 1725, as one target of early New England whalers, was almost certainly the gray whale.

Mahmud began a reign of terror against his Persian subjects and was eventually murdered in 1725 by his cousin, Ashraf Hotaki.

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.

John Newton was born in Wapping, London, in 1725, the son of John Newton Sr., a shipmaster in the Mediterranean service, and Elizabeth Newton ( née Seatclife ), a Nonconformist Christian.

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.

The façade was rebuilt by Andrea Palma in 1725 – 1753, with a double order of Corinthian columns, and statues by Ignazio Marabitti.

A man pours some whisky into a flask in this 1869 oil painting by Scottish artist Erskine Nicol. After the English Malt Tax of 1725, most of Scotland ’ s distillation was either shut down or forced underground.

In 1725 he was appointed provost marshal of South Carolina, a post he preferred to hold by deputy.

Tanucci was appointed a professor of law there in 1725 and attracted attention by his defence of the authenticity of the Codex Pisanus of the Pandects of Justinian.

In 1723 he was appointed co-rector, in 1725 rector in Middelburg.

He did quite well as court musician, and in 1679 was appointed ordinaire de la chambre du roy pour la viole, a title he kept until 1725.

He was chief justice of the common pleas from 1714 to 1725, when he was appointed speaker of the House of Lords and was raised to the peerage.

On 20 January 1725, Emperor Charles VI appointed the Frenchman Jacob van Schuppen as Prefect and Director of the Academy, which was refounded as the k. k.

His son-in-law, the above-named Eskeles, who ( although he resided in Vienna, being connected with his father-in-law's banking business there ) had succeeded his father, Gabriel Eskeles, as Landesrabbiner of Moravia, was appointed ( 1725 ) at Wertheimer's death his successor as Landesrabbiner of Hungary ( Kaufmann, " Samson Wertheimer ", p. 104, Vienna, 1888 ; Wurzbach, " Biographisches Lexikon ", s. v.

On 29 May 1725 he was appointed Lord Advocate in succession to Robert Dundas of Arniston, and is said to have distinguished himself by his humanity.

He was appointed lecturer on Anatomy by the Surgeons ' Company at Edinburgh in 1719 ; two years later he became professor, and in 1725 was admitted to the University.

In 1725 Tessin was appointed ambassador at Vienna, and in that capacity counteracted the plans of the Swedish chancellor, Count Arvid Horn, for joining the anti-Russian Hanoverian Alliance.

After a series of successful operas and the commencement of his successful collaboration with the librettist Pierre-Charles Roy, in 1713 the king appointed Destouches inspector general of the Académie Royale de Musique, at a stipend of 4000 livres a year ; later, in 1725 Louis XV would appoint him superintendent of chamber music for the Chambre du Roi, and then Director of the Académie.

Giambattista Vico ( 1668 – 1744 ) in Italy wrote Scienza nuova seconda ( The New Science ) in 1725, which argued history as the expression of human will and deeds.

Its name in turn, according to the Village of Chevy Chase's official history, can be traced to the larger tract of land called " Cheivy Chace " that was patented to Colonel Joseph Belt from Lord Baltimore on July 10, 1725.

The New Science ( 1725, original title Scienza Nuova ) is his major work and has been highly influential in the philosophy of history, and for historicists like Isaiah Berlin and Hayden White.

For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself .” This criterion for truth would later shape the history of civilization in Vico ’ s opus, the Scienza Nuova ( The New Science, 1725 ), because he would argue that civil lifelike mathematicsis wholly constructed.

Johann Salomo Semler ( 18 December 1725 – 14 March 1791 ) was a German church historian, biblical commentator, and critic ecclesiastical documents and of the history of dogmas.

* The Privateer's House (" La Demeure de Corsaire "), a ship-owner's town house built in 1725, shows objects from the history of privateering, weaponry and ship models.

His father, Johann Rudolf Gruner ( 1680 – 1761 ), was pastor of Trachselwald, in the Bernese Emmenthal ( 1705 ), and later ( 1725 ) of Burgdorf, and a great collector of information relating to historical and scientific matters ; his great Thesaurus topographico-historicus totius ditionis Bernensis ( 4 vols, folio, 1729 – 1730 ) still remains in manuscript, but in 1732 he published a small work entitled Deliciae urbis Bernae, while he possessed an extensive cabinet of natural history objects.

For further history of the barony, see the Earl of Darnley ( 1725 creation ).

The Ghilzai, Mir Wais obtained possession of Kandhar in 1709 and it is curious that this feat was accomplished in connection with Pishin Brahvi history relates that around 1725 Pishin has been annexed by Mir Abdullah after an engagement with the Ghilzais near Kandahar.

The history of cricket to 1725 traces the sport's development from its perceived origins to the stage where it had become a major sport in England and had been introduced to other countries.

Curll added further details on the publication history behind the Rivella in the first posthumous edition of the quasi fictional and not entirely reliable autobiography in 1725.