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Everything about 1724 totally explainedYear 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).
Events of 1724
January - June
June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. Partitioned Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.
July - December
July 27 - Wild Peter of Hanover captured near Helpensen in Hanover.
November 11 - Joseph Blake (alias Blueskin), highwayman, is hanged in London.
November 16
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.
Births
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 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)
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 (born 1644)
March 19 - Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham, politician (born 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)
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