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by
Gorgonzola
Fri Jan 26 2001 at 3:40:31
Born in 1723:
Scottish
philosopher
and
economist
Adam Smith
.
English
architect
William Chambers
.
German-born French radical thinker Baron
Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach
.
German amateur
astronomer
Johann Palitzsch
.
German astronomer
Johann Tobias Meyer
.
German
composer
Princess
Anna Amalia
of
Prussia
, to the great surprise of her mother.
Maryland
statesman
Barrister Charles Carroll
.
Mohegan
author
Samson Occom
.
The future King
Frederik V
of
Denmark
and
Norway
.
German composer
Karl Friedrich Abel
.
English painter
Joshua Reynolds
.
English jurist Sir
William Blackstone
.
Spanish missionary and early California historian Padre
Francisco Palou
.
English marine painter
Charles Brooking
.
The future
Ahmad Shah
of
Persia
Died in 1723:
Dutch
optician
and
microscope
innovator
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
.
Safavid
Shah
Soltan Hoseyn
of
Persia
, put to death by the
Afghan
conqueror
Mahmud
.
Austrian architect
Johann Fischer von Erlach
.
Philippe II
duc d’Orléans
, regent of
France
.
English architect Sir
Christopher Wren
.
English
composer
William Babell
.
German-born English painter Sir
Godfrey Kneller
.
Chinese Emperor
Qing Sheng Zu
; the
Kang Xi
Era ends.
English judge Sir
James Montagu
.
Events of 1723:
With the death of the duc d'Orleans, 13-year-old
Louis XV
theoretically rules France in his own right. However, power is really in the hands of the duc d'Bourbon.
Persia
cedes
Azerbaijan
to Russia.
Qing Shi Zhong
becomes emperor of China, beginning the
Yongzheng
Era.
Shu li jing yun
publishes his
Collected Basic Principles of Mathematics
An Afghan soldier,
Dost Mohammad
, founds the
Princely State
of
Bhopal
, and builds a capital city of the same name.
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How they Were Made
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18th Century
1722
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How I made the Year Nodes
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
18th century
Adam Smith
Laibachkunstderfuge
John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll
1816
Johann Fischer von Erlach
1748
1750
References in Deus Ex
September 13, 2000
Christopher Wren
Louis XV
Adam Weishaupt