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What Happened in February 1725

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Historical Events

  • Feb 20 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100 a scalp bounty

Famous Birthdays

  • Feb 4 Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)
  • Feb 5 James Otis, American lawyer and patriot, born in Barnstable, Massachusetts (d. 1783)

Louis Mandrin (1725-1755)

Feb 11 French smuggler considered the French Robin Hood, born in Dauphiné, France

Louis Mandrin
  • Feb 25 Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (Geistliche Kantaten), born in Berlin (d. 1798)
  • Feb 26 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French inventor who designed and built 1st automobile, born in Void, France (d. 1804) [or born September 25]
Born in 1725

Famous Deaths

  • Feb 6 Johann Philipp Krieger, German Baroque organist and composer, dies at 75
  • Feb 7 Louis Bouteiller, French composer, dies at 77

Peter the Great (1672-1725)

Feb 8 Tsar of Russia (1682-1725), dies of uremia at 52

Peter the Great



What Happened in 1725

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