In the year 1725, Catherine I becomes Empress of Russia on the death of Peter the Great,(Feb 8), the Treaty of Hanover: George I, growing concerned about a potential conflict with Spain, signed the agreement linking France, Prussia, and the Netherlands together in opposition to Spain (Sep 16), Freemasonry starts being established in France as an import from England - and all these fine people were born:

1725-xxxx 1725-xxxx Heikki Heikinpoika Lemvik** father of Mikko Heikinpoika Mustalampi - Lempäälä, Sweden-Finland (1805/79-80) 1725-xxxx Heikki Tuomaanpoika Messo** Finnish farmer/father of Antti Heikinpoika Vaittinen - Viipuri, Russian Empire (1764/34-43) aby 1725-xxxx 1725-xxxx 1725-xxxx John Morton* farmer/surveyor/signer of Declaration of Independence/ Finnish background through Martti Marttinen - Ridley Township, Delaware County, British America (1777/c.52) 1725-xxxx 1725-xxxx 1725-0204 Dru Drury* entomologist - Wood Street, London, England (1803/) 1725-0205 James Otis Jr.* lawyer/political activist/said “Taxation without representation is tyranny” – Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America (1783/58) 1725-0205 Anna Maria Rückerschöld* author - Hedemora, Kingdom of Sweden (1805/80) 1725-0215 Abraham Clark* signer of Declaration of Independence -  Elizabethtown, New Jersey, British America (1794/68) 1725-0317 Lachlan McIntosh* Scottish American military and political leader - Raits, Badenoch, Scotland (1806/80) 1725-0324 Thomas Cushing* merchant/lawyer/statesman - Boston, Province of Massachusetts, British America (1788/62) 1725-0328 Andrew Kippis* nonconformist clergyman/biographer - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England (1795/70) 1725-0402 Giacomo Casanova* Italian adventurer/womanizer/author - Venice, Republic of Venice (1798/73) 1725-0425 Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller* German zoologist - Esens, Kingdom of Prussia (1776/50) 1725-0525 Samuel Ward* farmer/politician - Newport, Rhode Island, British America (1776/50) 1725-0701 Rhoda Delaval* aristocrat/ portrait painter - London, England (1757/c.32) 1725-0704 Jean-Baptiste Luton Durival* historian/diplomat/ Encyclopédiste - Saint-Aubin-sur-Aire, Kingdom of France (1810/84) 1725-0731 1725-0804 John Newton* captain of slave ships/ardent abolitionist/clergyman and creator of “Amazing Grace” - Wapping, London, England (1807/82) 1725-0821 Jean-Baptiste Greuze* painter - Tournus, Burgundy, Kingdom of France (1805/79) 1725-08 1725-0901 Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont* French “Father of the American Revolution” - Nantes, Kingdom of France (1803/77) 1725-0924 Arthur Guinness* brewer/founder of the Guinness brewery business - Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland (1803/77) 1725-1001 1725-1012 Ètienne Louis Geoffroy* entomologist/ pharmacist - Paris, Kingdom of France (1810/84) 1725-1021 Franz Moritz von Lacy* Baltic German-born Austrian military leader - Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (1801/76) 1725-1211 George Mason* planter/politician/ signer of the Declaration of Independence – Fairfax County, Virginia, British America (1792/66) 1725-1220 1725-1221 Maria Yrjänäntytär Lemvik** (b x) mother of Mikko Heikinpoika Mustalampi - Lempäälä, Sweden-Finland (1801/75) 1725-0 1725-0 1725-0 Updated 19.4.2023-3 Search for another year here