1727 (place)

Born in 1727:

• English painter Thomas Gainsborough.
• Scottish songwriter Jean Elliot.
• Scottish poet John Lapraik.
• French chemist, economist and courtier Anne Robert Jacques Turgot.
• German composer Johann Wilhelm Hertel.
• French composer Armand-Louis Couperin.
• Italian composer Pasquale Anfossi.
• English general James Wolfe.
• Italian painter Giandomenico Tiepolo.
• German composer Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, famous for Bach's compsing some musical variations for him.
• French painter François-Herbert Drouais.
• American Revolutionary War general Horatio Gates (possibly in 1728).

• English mathematician and physicist, Sir Isaac Newton.
• English composer of church music William Croft.
• George I, King of Hanover and the United Kingdom of Great Britain.  His son George II succeeds him.
• American diarist Sarah Kemble Knight.
• Russian empress Catherine I. Her stepgransdon Peter II ascends the throne.
• Murshid Quli Djafar Khan, Nawab of Bengal. Shoja ud-Din succeeds him.

• A large earthquake topples chimneys in Massachussetts.
• The British East India Company opens a post office in Calcutta.
• In order to reduce the number of gambling disputes, the Duke of Richmond draws up the first written rules of cricket.
• The Treaty of Kiakhta defines the border between Russia and China.

1726 - 1727 - 1728

How They Were Made - 18th Century