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

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

Years: 1719 1720 1721 1722 1723 - 1724 - 1725 1726 1727 1728 1729

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths

Events

January 14 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne
February 20 - The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London
June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. Partitioned Persia between the Ottoman Empire and Russia
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 was named czarina by Peter the Great in Russia
The Austrian Netherlands agree to the Pragmatic Sanction
Mahmud of Afghanistan goes insane
Pierro Orsini become Pope Benedict XIII
Longman's, oldest publishing house in England, is founded

Year in topic

Births

April 22 - Immanuel Kant, philosopher (died 1804)
June 8 - John Smeaton, civil engineer (died 1794)
July 2 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (died 1803)
August 25 - George Stubbs, painter (died 1806)
John Michell, English natural philosopher and geologist (died 1793).
Franz Aepinus

Deaths

March 7 - Pope Innocent XIII (born 1655)
June 15 - Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (born 1674)
October 29 - William Wollaston, English philosophical writer (born 1659)
November 16 - Jack Sheppard (executed)