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1723

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s - 1720s - 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s

Years: 1718 1719 1720 1721 1722 - 1723 - 1724 1725 1726 1727 1728

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• February 16 - Louis XV of France attains his majority

Year in topic

• 1723 in literature
• 1723 in science

Births

• February 24 - John Burgoyne, British general.
• March 31 - King Frederick V of Denmark
• April 30 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and natural philosopher (died 1806)
• June 5 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (baptized this day, exact date of birth unknown) (died 1790)
• July 11 - Jean-François Marmontel, French novelist and dramatist (died 1799)
• July 16 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter (died 1792)
• November 8 - John Byron, English vice-admiral, grandfather of the poet Lord Byron (died 1786)
• November 30 - William Livingston, American politician and journalist (died 1790)
• December 22 - Karl Friedrich Abel, German baroque composer (died 1787)
• William Blackstone, English jurist (died 1780)

Deaths

• February 25 - Sir Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer, mathematician (born 1632)
• March 15 - Johann Christian Gunther, German poet (born 1695)
• March 31 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, Governor of New York and New Jersey ( born 1661)
• August 10 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (born 1656)
• October 19 - Godfrey Kneller, artist (born 1646)
• December 2 - Philippe II of Orleans (born 1674)
• December 7 - Johann Santin Aichel, architect
• Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch pioneer of microscopic research (born 1632)
• Increase Mather, American colonial and religious leader (born 1639)

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