Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1690s  1700s  1710s  – 1720s –  1730s  1740s  1750s
Years:	1721 1722 1723 – 1724 – 1725 1726 1727

1724 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:   Great Britain –

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1724 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1724

[edit] January–June

• January 14 – King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne.
• January 28 – The Saint Petersburg State University is 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 is signed, partitioning Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.

[edit] July–December

• July 27 – Wild Peter of Hanover is captured near Helpensen in Hanover.
• November 11 – Joseph Blake (alias Blueskin), highwayman, is hanged in London.
• November 16
  • Jack Sheppard is hanged in London.
  • Willem Mons, lover of Catherine I of Russia, is executed and his head preserved in alcohol.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Births

1724 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1724 MDCCXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2477
Armenian calendar	1173 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-120 – -119
Bengali calendar	1131
Berber calendar	2674
Buddhist calendar	2268
Burmese calendar	1086
Byzantine calendar	7232 – 7233
Chinese calendar	癸卯年十二月初六日 (4360/4420-12-6) — to — 甲辰年十一月十六日 (4361/4421-11-16)
Coptic calendar	1440 – 1441
Ethiopian calendar	1716 – 1717
Hebrew calendar	5484 – 5485
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1779 – 1780
- Shaka Samvat	1646 – 1647
- Kali Yuga	4825 – 4826
Holocene calendar	11724
Iranian calendar	1102 – 1103
Islamic calendar	1136 – 1137
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 9 (享保9年)
Korean calendar	4057
Thai solar calendar	2267
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• January 24 – Frances Brooke, English writer (d. 1789)
• February 16 – Christopher Gadsden, American statesman
• February 28 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807)
• February 29 – Eva Marie Veigel, ballet dancer known as La Violette (d. 1822)
• 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 10 – Eva Ekeblad, Swedish scientist (d.1786)
• 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)

[edit] Deaths

• February 12 – Elkanah Settle, English writer (b. 1648)
• March 7 – Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
• March 15 – Marie Jeanne of Savoy-Nemours, Regent of Savoy (b. 1644)
• March 19 – Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham, politician (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 11 – Joseph "Blueskin" Blake, English highwayman (executed) (b. c. 1700)
• November 16 – Jack Sheppard, English criminal (executed) (b. 1702)
• November 18 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
• November 24 – Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1672)
• December 27 – Thomas Guy, English philanthropist (b. 1644)