Here’s our next instalment of things that happened in ..25 years of yore.
Some Notable Events in 1725
20 January.20. James Figg hosts the first recorded international boxing match, fought between English livestock drover Bob Whitaker and Venetian gondolier Alberto di Carni in London .
20 February. The first reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony.
25 March. Bach’s chorale cantata Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, is first performed on the Feast of the Annunciation, coinciding with Palm Sunday.
30 March. The second performance of Bach’s St John Passion takes place at St Thomas Church, Leipzig.
12 May. The Black Watch is raised as a military company, as part of the pacification of the Scottish Highlands under General George Wade.
24 June. The Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin holds its first recorded meeting, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry.
24 September. Born. Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d.1803).
29 September. Born. Robert Clive, British general, statesman (d.1774) .
24 October. Died. Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b.1660).
26 November. British astronomers James Bradley and Samuel Molyneux set up a telescope in Molyneux’s private observatory to begin their observations of stellar parallax of the star Gamma Draconis. The observations lead to Bradley’s pioneering discovery of the aberration of light.
Unknown Date. Gradus ad Parnassum, a seminal work on counterpoint, laying out rules of constructing music, is published by Johann Joseph Fux.