1721

About 1721


Year '1721' ('MDCCXXI') was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents
Events of 1721
January - June
July - December
Undated
Ongoing Events
Births
Deaths
Notes

Events of 1721


April 4: Walpole.

January - June


★ May 8 - Pope Innocent XIII succeeds Pope Clement XI as the 244th pope.

★ April 4 - Robert Walpole becomes the first prime minister of Britain.
July - December


★ September 10 - Treaty of Nystad is signed, bringing an end to the Great Northern War.

★ November 2 - Peter I is proclaimed Emperor of All the Russias.
Undated


★ Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Brandenburg Concertos.

★ Regular postal mail between Long and New England is established.[1]

Ongoing Events



★ Great Northern War (1700-1721).

Births



★ January 10 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (died 1740)

★ February 3 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (died 1773)

★ February 21 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (died 1796)

★ March 19 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish physician and author (died 1771)

★ April 3 - Roger Sherman, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1793)

★ April 11 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary (died 1808)

★ April 15 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (died 1765)

★ April 19 - Roger Sherman, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (died 1803)

★ July 9 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (died 1781)

★ July 14 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (died 1807)

★ August 4 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (died 1803)

★ August 31 - George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (died 1775)

★ September 14 - Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (died 1807)

★ October 19 - Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (died 1800)

★ November 9 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician (died 1770)

★ November 22 - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born cartographer and Canadian statesman (died 1824)

★ December 6 - James Elphinston, Scottish philologist (died 1809)

★ December 6 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (died 1794)

★ December 27 - François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (died 1790)

★ December 29 - Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (died 1764)
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Deaths



★ February 16 - James Craggs the Younger, English politician (born 1686)

★ February 24 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (born 1648)

★ March 16 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (born 1657)

★ March 19 - Pope Clement XI (born 1649)

★ April 14 - Michel Chamillart, French statesman (born 1652)

★ July 8 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (born 1649)

★ July 18 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (born 1684)

★ August 3 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (born 1648)

★ August 13 - Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (born 1665)

★ September 8

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★ Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (born 1686)

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★ Henri Arnaud, French pastor and leader of the Waldenses (born 1641)

★ September 11 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (born 1665)

★ September 18 - Matthew Prior, British poet and diplomat (born 1664)

★ September 20 - Thomas Doggett, Irish actor (born c.1670)

★ October 11 - Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (born 1636)

★ December 13 - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (born 1676)

★ December 17 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (born 1650)
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Notes


1. American Corrections Seventh Edition, Clear, Todd R., Cole, George F., Resig, Michael D., , , Thompson, 2006,


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