1724

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Year '1724' ('MDCCXXIV') was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1724

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1724

January - June

★ January 14 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.

★ January 28 - The Saint Petersburg State University was established.

★ February 20 - The premiere of ''Giulio Cesare'', an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London

★ May 29 - Pope Benedict XIII, born Pierro Orsini, succeeds Pope Innocent XIII as the 245th pope.


★ June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. Partitioned Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.

July - December

★ July 27 - Wild Peter of Hanover captured near Helpensen in Hanover.

★ November 16

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★ Jack Sheppard hanged in London.

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★ Willem Mons, lover of Catherine I of Russia, is executed and his head preserved in alcohol.

Undated

★ China expels foreign missionaries.

★ Blenheim Palace construction is completed. It is presented as a gift to the Duke of Marlborough for his involvement in the Battle of Blenheim in 1704.

★ Catherine I is officially named czarina by her husband, Peter the Great, in Russia.

★ The Austrian Netherlands agree to the Pragmatic Sanction.

★ Mahmud of Afghanistan goes insane.

★ Longman, the oldest publishing house in England, is founded.

★ The Celesta is invented By Auguste Mundel.

Births

★ January 24 - Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)

★ February 28 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807)

★ April 12 - Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790)

★ April 22 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)

★ April 29 - John Michell, English scientist and geologist (d. 1793)

★ May 7 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (d. 1797)

★ May 19 - Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)

★ June 8 - John Smeaton, English civil engineer (d. 1792)

★ July 2 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (d. 1803)

★ July 31 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801)

★ August 23 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)

★ August 25 - George Stubbs, English painter (d. 1806)

★ August 27 - John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-born Continental Congressman (d. 1781)

★ September 3 - Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, British soldier and Governor of Quebec (d. 1808)

★ October 31 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (d. 1805)

★ December 12 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (d. 1816)

★ December 13 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (d. 1802)

★ December 18 - Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1751)

★ December 24 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (d. 1811)

★ December 30 - Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (d. 1805)
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Deaths

★ February 12 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (b. 1648)

★ March 7 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)

★ May 3 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b. 1662)

★ May 21 - Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (b. 1661)

★ June 15 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674)

★ October 2 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)

★ October 29 - William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (b. 1659)

★ November 16 - Jack Sheppard, English criminal (executed) (b. 1702)

★ November 18 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
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