1723

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Year '1723' ('MDCCXXIII') was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of

January - July

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of

January - July

★ February 16 - Louis XV of France attains his majority.

★ May 23 - Freemasonry lodge "Theodor zum guten Rath" at Munich in Bavaria founded.

July - December

★ September 1 - Treaty of St. Petersburg

★ November 23 - The Province of Carolina incorporates New Bern as Newbern. The town would later become the capital of North Carolina.

Undated

★ The Province of Carolina incorporates Beaufort, North Carolina as the "Port of Beaufort", making it the third incorporated town in the province.

★ Christian von Wolff is banned from Prussia with the charge of atheism.

Births

★ January 12 - Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (died 1797)

★ February 15 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1794)

★ February 17 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (died 1761)

★ February 21 - Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian (died 1808)

★ February 23 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (died 1791)

★ February 24 - John Burgoyne, British general (died 1792)

★ March 22 - Charles Carroll, American lawyer and Continental Congressman (died 1783)

★ March 23 - Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, Iranian king (died 1778)

★ March 31 - King Frederick V of Denmark (died 1766)

★ April 20 - Cornelius Harnett, American Continental Congressman (died 1781)

★ April 30 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist (died 1806)

★ June 3 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born physician and naturalist (died 1788)

★ June 5 - (baptised) Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (died 1790)

★ June 11 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (died 1788)

★ June 20

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★ Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (died 1816)

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★ Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (died 1808)

★ July 1 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman and writer (died 1802)

★ July 10 - William Blackstone, English jurist (died 1780)

★ July 11 - Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (died 1799)

★ July 16 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (died 1792)

★ September 11 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (died 1790)

★ October 4 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (died 1798)

★ November 8 - John Byron, English admiral (died 1786)

★ November 30 - William Livingston, American politician and journalist (died 1790)

★ December 22 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer (died 1787)

★ December 26 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (died 1807)
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Deaths

★ February 25 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1632)

★ February 26 - Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (born 1653)

★ March 15 - Johann Christian Günther, German poet (born 1695)

★ March 31 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (born 1661)

★ April 11 - John Robinson, English diplomat (born 1650)

★ May 11 - Jean Galbert de Campistron, French dramatist (born 1656)

★ July 14 - Claude Fleury, French historian (born 1640)

★ July 26 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (born 1660)

★ August 10 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (born 1656)

★ August 17 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar (born 1668)

★ August 23 - Increase Mather, American Puritan minister (born 1639)

★ August 26 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (born 1632)

★ October 10 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (born c.1665)

★ October 19 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born artist (born 1646)

★ October 31 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1642)

★ November 19 - Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and statesman (born 1632)

★ December 1 - Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress (born 1669)

★ December 2 - Philip II, Duke of Orléans, regent of France (born 1674)

★ December 7 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (born 1677)

★ December 20 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (born 1652)
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