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Tue Feb 06 2001 at 3:26:21
Born in 1721:
British general
Thomas Gage
.
William Augustus of Hanover, the future "Bloody"
Duke of Cumberland
, commander at the
1745
Battle of Culloden
.
British general
James Murray
.
Marquise
Antoinette Poisson de Pompadour
, future mistress of King
Louis XV
.
French chemist and politician
Anne-Robert-Jacque Turgot
.
Scottish
mathematician
John Keill
.
Scottish
epic
poet
William Wilkie
.
Colonial
Massachusetts
politician and signer of the
Declaration of Independence
Roger Sherman
.
Maryland
politician
John Hanson
, first
President of the United States
under the
Articles of Confederation
.
Future
Mughal
/
Afghan
ruler
Haider Ali
.
Died in 1721:
English poet
Matthew Prior
.
Scottish sailor
Alexander Selkirk
, whose experiences inspired
Daniel Defoe
to write
Robinson Crusoe
.
German
librettist
Christian Friedrich Hunold
, aka '
Menantes
'.
Pope
Clement XI
.
British comic actor
Thomas Doggett
.
French painter
Jean-Antoine Watteau
.
German botanist
Rudolph Jakob Camerarius
.
Maratha
Emperor
Balaji Vishwanath
. His son
Bajirao
succeeds him.
Events of 1721:
Russia and Sweden sign the
Treay of Nystad
ending the
Great Northern War
, whose last real engagements had been fought in
1715
. Sweden officially cedes large portions of
Finland
to Russia, including the area upon which Tsar
Peter I
had already built his new capital,
St. Petersburg
.
Michelangelo Dei Conti
is elected Pope
Innocent XIII
.
Bishop
George Berkeley
writes
De motu
rejecting Newtonian physics.
John Hadley
produces the first useful
reflecting telescope
.
There is a
smallpox epidemic
in Boston.
The Ottoman sultan sends an ambassador to Paris. The account of his travels will begin the Westernization of Turkey..
Taiwan
revolts
against the Qing Emperor's rule. This "
Zhu Yigui Rebellion
" is soon crushed.
Johann Sebastian Bach
publishes his six
Brandenburg Concertos
.
British King
George I
creates a new colony in North America,
South Carolina
.
The first national
census of Japan
counts 31 million people, with approximately 1 million in
Edo
alone.
1720
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1721
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1722
How they Were Made
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18th Century
1722
1720
President of the United States of America
Finland
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
William Robertson
John Erskine
Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron Crew
George William Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol
James Craggs
John Douglas
Szczecin
Brandenburg Concerto
Military History
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
Tartu
Madame Pompadour
1730
John Hanson
Daniel Defoe
reflecting telescope
18th century
Peter the Great