1725

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[edit] Events

  • February 8 - Catherine I became empress of Russia.
  • February 20 - The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony.
  • March 2 – In London, night watchman finds a severed head by the Thames; it is later recognized to be that of the husband of Catherine Hayes. She and one accomplice are later executed.
  • May 21 - The Order of Alexander Nevsky was instituted in Russia by an empress Catherine I.
  • May 24 - Jonathan Wild, fraudulent "Thief Taker General", is hanged in Tyburn, England for actually aiding criminals.