Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1725

Literature

• Thomas Cooke, The Battle of the Poets
• Daniel Defoe, A New Voyage Round the World, The Complete English Tradesman (through 1727), Jonathan Wild
• Samuel Johnson is at Stourbridge
• Alexander Pope, The Works of William Shakespeare
• Alexander Pope, The Odyssey of Homer, vol. 1 (books 1 through 3), with Fenton and Broome
• Somerville, The Two Springs
• James Thomson moves to London
• Edward Young, The Universal Passion, parts 1 through 4

Theatre

• Mary Davys, Works (2 vols.)
• Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd

Art

Music

• George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Rodelinda

Science, Technology, & Medicine

• Catherine I of Russia founds the St Petersburg Academy of Science

Politics & Law

• The Empire and Spain sign the Treaty of Vienna
• England, France, and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hanover
• Echard, History of the Revolution ???
• Rapin, History of England, trans. Tindal (begun)
• Robert Walpole and Townshend become rivals in Parliament ???

Philosophy & Theology

• George Berkeley, A Proposal for Converting the Savage Americans
• Hutcheson, The Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
• Isaac Watts, Logick

Milestones

• Birth of William Kenrick (approximate)
• Birth of John Newton
• Death of Peter the Great of Russia
• Death of A. Scarlatti, composer

Miscellaneous

• Sir John Mandeville's Travels in their first English version published