1724
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January 14 - King
Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne
*
January 28 - The
Saint Petersburg State University was established.
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February 20 - The premiere of
Giulio Cesare, an
Italian opera by
George Frideric Handel, takes place in
London*
June 23 -
Treaty of Constantinople signed. Partitioned
Persia between the
Ottoman Empire and
Russia*
July 27 - Wild Peter of Hanover captured near
Helpensen in
Hanover*
November 16 –
Jack Sheppard hanged in London
*
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 was named czarina by
Peter the Great in Russia, while her lover
Willem Mons was beheaded.
* The Austrian Netherlands agree to the
Pragmatic Sanction* Mahmud of Afghanistan goes insane
* Pierro Orsini becomes
Pope Benedict XIII*
Longman, oldest
publishing house in
England, is founded
*
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)
*
January 6 -
Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist (b.
1653)
*
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)
